In a move directed against the educational. institutions having sub-standard facilities, the governor and chancellor of U.P.state universities, T. V Rajeshwar Rao, cancelled the affiliation of 20 B. Ed and two other colleges with the Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut. These colleges reportedly did not follow the university norms and lacked the required facilities to run their courses. In his new order, issued on Monday, the chancellor refused to accept the proposal of two new B.Ed colleges in Noida and Ghaziabad and also turned down the proposals of DAV College in Muzaffarnagar and one in Baghpat to start new courses of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Arts. The governor has so far cancelled the affiliation of 22 Colleges in the region. The chancellor has also ordered an enquiry of all 150 B. Ed colleges affiliated to the CCS University A team of administrative and university officials had carried out an investigation and identified 70 colleges that were substandard and flouting university norms. The list was sent to the governor by the commissioner of Meerut division, Mohinder Singh, who had recently taken charge as the officiating Vice Chancellor of the University The governor had sacked the then VC R.P. Singh on charges of corruption. The investigative team found that many of these colleges were being run in two rooms. Besides, few had submitted fake documents of land deeds and had admitted students in excess of their management quota. Some were even charging extra money for these admissions. In fact, opening B.Ed colleges had become a lucrative profession for many who even converted their factory sheds into colleges with a profit motive. This also led to a huge spike in the number of B.Ed colleges in the region. Most of these colleges openly flouted the university norms.

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