From the inputs from PTI and other media reports, it can be firmly stated that UGC has given strict guidelines to all universities to upload all the relevant information about them which includes the strength of students, faculty, fees collected and courses provided for few to mention.The UGC Secretary, Dr. Jaspal Singh Sandhu while talking to reporters at Convocation of Avanashilingam University for Women also stated that who fail to provide the details will be placed in defaulters list and also there is the possibility of stopping UGC funds.

When asked about the complaints about the existence of fake universities and also irregularities in State universities, UGC secretary said that UGC was monitoring the functioning of the universities and coming out with a list of fake universities from time to time and some were blacklisted.

Other Important Developments:

1. National Academic Depository (NAD)  will be in operation in a couple of months which shall be an inter-operable digital store house of academic awards 24 X 7 online mode.
2. It shall provide a system for lodging, retrieval, authentication and verification of academic awards in digital format for students, academic institutions, boards, eligibility assessment bodies and other user/verifying entities like bank, employer companies, government agencies and academic institutions, he said.
3. The Depository allows lodging of Academic awards in a digital format, maintaining the integrity of access to the database and of the awards lodged in the database and allows students, who will be given password, to retrieve their lodged academic awards at any time, Sandhu said, adding that this would an effective deterrence to fake and forged paper certificates.