IcfaiTech leaves 1,200 students in the lurch

HYDERABAD: It is finally curtains for IcfaiTech, Hyderabad. The authorities on Monday served notices on the remaining B.Tech students to pack up

and leave. This has come as a final blow to the 1,200 students who had earlier filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking recognition of their degree on humanitarian grounds after the UGC had termed the degree issued by the Hyderabad campus as illegal.

Icfai has a university
in Dehradun and another in Agartala, Tripura. According to sources, the degrees awarded by the campuses at Dehradun and Agartala are recognised by the UGC. “After discovering that Icfai was enrolling students at the Hyderabad campus and then awarding them degrees from either Dehradun or Agartala, the UGC described this practice as illegal,” said sources.