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TMI Blog2016 (12) TMI 1619X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... atutory university located in Sikkim. The appellant is providing distance education with the approval by Distance Education Council (DEC), Indira Gandhi National Open University throughout India till 2013. After 2013, with the approval of University Grants Commission (UGC), the appellant is providing the distance education services throughout India and abroad. 3. During the period under consideration, the appellant has established, maintained learning centers (LCs)/Study Centres (SCs) for distance education in different parts of the country. For the said purpose they entered into an agreement with the private parties. Accordingly, they share the fees and also charge the accreditation/registration fee from each learning/study centre. The De ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ia 2006' issued by the Distance Education Council, IGNOU, New Delhi. It is also observed in the said order that Sikkim Manipal University (appellant) was set up to provide distance learning education which necessarily and inextricably involved outsourcing pertaining to the teaching and imparting of education; hence, degrees awarded by the Sikkim Manipal University through Distance Learning Centers are equivalent to degrees given through campus education. Thus a candidate will get the degree from Sikkim Manipal University. In the said order, it is also observed that Learning Centre was therefore providing all assistance to the University to help the University deliver its graduate and post graduate programs under the distance education mode. ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... enters were at par with the affiliated colleges of the appellant, therefore, cannot be discriminated vis-a-vis affiliated colleges. In the PTU case, the university runs its own distance education programme through affiliated colleges and learning centers. She also submits that PTU regulates its own distance education as a part of continuing education programme through the learning centers. The Regional Centers (RCs) will have to issue the State level advertisements for admission notices for the courses in the leading news papers in coordination with the university. Regional Centers (RCs) will arrange to provide training for the latest technologies and teaching pedagogy to the staff of the LCs in coordination with the University. 9. But in ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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