BITS-Pilani has off-capmpus centres at Hyderabad and Goa, HRD Ministry has sought legal opinion from the Rajasthan Government regarding validating degrees, certificates and diplomas awarded by the off-campus centres of BITS-Pilani.
Last year UGC had sent a notice to BITS-Pilani asking them to shut down their off-campus centres as they were established without permission and they violated the regulations of deemed university.
Earlier the state government had written to the central government for guidance in this matter. Now the HRD Ministry has written to Law Ministry for their opinion.
The attestation of the degrees has been put on hold by the Rajasthan Government.
The University said that “the off campus centres were established before the university was given a deemed university regulations came into effect. UGC has no legal authority to issue such kind of notice”.