UGC starts monitoring portal for deemed universities, their students

NEW DELHI: The University Grants Commission has set up a separate website for institutions that are deemed-to-be universities. It announced the Deemed to be University Monitoring Portal through a public notice on March 12, 2020.

The Deemed to be University Monitoring Portal, or DTBUMP, will contain "detailed information" about these institutions.

The same portal will serve both the institutions as well as the public, including prospective students.

Institutions will have to apply online through it to be granted "Deemed-to-be-University" status. Existing ones can apply for permission to run off-campus or off-shore centres, courses and new departments online. The UGC has also written to 127 such institutions about the monitoring portal.

Parents, students can check

If they are already on the list, a deemed-to-be university will have to "submit their academic outcomes and performance online".

This will allow the public to judge an institution. The website already includes a “performance outcome dashboard” that is based on data submitted by institutions for the National Institutional Ranking Framework. The data includes the intake and graduate figures, information on their research publications, the proportion of male and female students.

On each of the 126 deemed-to-be universities, the monitoring portal has contact details, ranks, information on management.

Those with complaints against an institution may also register them online as the monitoring portal has a grievance redress section as well.

The notice says: "Students/ parents and general public can approach the portal for redressal of their grievances related to Deemed to be Universities".

Monitored annually

The UGC also wrote to all Vice-Chancellors or directors of existing deemed-to-be universities on March 12 informing them that "all the deemed to be universities shall upload the performance report on each aspect and academic parameters along with all supporting documents on the UGC web portal immediately".

Thereafter, the "cycle of submission of data" will be the two months between November 1 and December 31 of every year.

The letter further says: "UGC regulations provide...that the performance and academic outcomes of all institutions deemed to be universities, based on public disclosures on various performance parameters shall be monitored annually by the UGC.”

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