Two Vice Chancellors Caught For Fake Phds: HRD

The University Grants Commission has found three cases of plagiarism in writing Ph.D. thesis, including two involving vice-chancellors of different universities, in the past three years, the government told Parliament Thursday. The information was shared by Minister of State for Human Resource Development Satya Pal Singh in response to a written question in Rajya Sabha.

According to media reports , “The UGC has informed that three cases have come to their notice in last three years against Chandra Krishnamurthy, vice chancellor of Pondicherry University (2015); Anil Kumar Upadhyay, reader of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi (2017); and Vinay Kumar Pathak, vice chancellor of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow (2018),” Singh said. The minister informed that Chandra Krishnamurthy was dismissed from the post in July 2016, and the other two universities have been asked to take action against the two persons.