AGARTALA, August 4 (TIWN):As the new academic session readies to start, state students are scrambling to get admission in various colleges across the country. Lack of availability of the quality higher educational institutes, especially, in technical education field forces thousands of students every year to go out of state to pursue their dream. North-east region in general and Tripura in particular is considered to be lucrative area for the educational institutes to do business.

  Representatives of various educational institutes’ starts camping here moment the results of CBSE, ICSE and TBSE exams are out.  Unfortunately many students get trapped by unrecognized institutes which greatly harm their academic life. In recent year many such incidents of state students getting cheated by fake institutes and colleges have been reported.

The department of higher and technical education is aware of this problem. “We are very much attentive about the problem. Therefore to help student as well as parents we have list of empanelled colleges with us. These colleges were empanelled after our officials made campus visit and thoroughly checked the credentials. Also unlike other private institutes they charge normal fees,” said an official of  higher education department.

Recently UGC has also issued list of 21 fake universities operating in the state. The names of fake universities are Maithili University, Darbhanga (Bihar), Varanseya Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya(University), Commercial University Ltd, United Nations University, Delhi Vocational University,  ADR- Central Juridical University, Delhi Indian Institution of Science and Engineering(All Delhi based), Badagnavi Sarkar World Open Educational Society, Belgaum (Karnataka) St. John's University, Kishanattam (Kerala) Kesarwani Vidyapith, Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh)  Raja Arabic University, Nagpur (Maharashtra) D D B Sanskrit University, Putur, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, Indian institute of Alternative Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, Mahila Gram Vidyapith, Allahabad, Gandhi Hindi Vidyapith, Allahabad, National University of Electro Complex Homeopathy, Kanpur, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh Vishwavidyalaya, Maharana Pratap Shiksha Niketan Vidyalaya, Pratapgarh, Indraprastha Shiksha Parishad, Noida-Phase II and Gurukul Vishwavidyalaya, Mathura(All based in Uttar Pradesh). The students as well as guardians need to remain alert while seeking admission in private institutions.