PUNE: A magisterial court in Pune has ‘kept for verification’ a private complaint by an education activist accusing the Deccan College Post Graduate Research Institute — the country’s third oldest educational institution specialising in Indology, Sanskrit and linguistic studies — of violation of various norms, including use of a `Deemed University’ prefix instead of a ‘deemed-to-be university’ and claiming an `A’ rating by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) despite it lapsing in 2020.
Deccan College registrar Abhijit Dandekar told TOI on Friday, “The complaint is borne out of ignorance of a person, who does not have the technical or legal information of the statutory basis upon which the institute functions.”
