Bengaluru: The High Court of Karnataka has ordered issue of notice to Prakash Kumar Thakur, secretary of the University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi, on a contempt of court petition, which alleged that the UGC failed to grant recognition to Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) to start non-technical in-house courses for the 2017-18 academic year.
A Division Bench comprising Justice B.S. Patil and Justice Aravind Kumar passed the order on the petition filed by the KSOU.
The KSOU alleged that the UGC had failed to obey the order passed by a single judge of the court on December 12, 2017. The judge had directed the UGC to grant recognition within two weeks to start non-technical in-house courses on par with 106 other universities that have been granted recognition in 2015-16 without taking into consideration the time factor in granting recognition as no other reason was cited by the UGC to withhold recognition to the KSOU.
