February 25, 2005

India's Supreme Court Rules Against Private Colleges

By SHAILAJA NEELAKANTAN

India's Supreme Court quashed a provision of a state law this month that allowed the establishment of private universities in the State of Chhattisgarh, in central India. The court called the three-year-old provision "unconstitutional" and canceled the registrations of all 108 private universities in the state, Some 20,000 students are enrolled in the institutions.

Chhattisgarh has only two public universities to serve a population of 21 million. But the law's loosely written

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