How many times have you seen tall claiming advertisments from Amity University or IIPM. Many questions over last few years have been raised on such educational setup. Recently, I came to know that Amity University which boost itself for research and patents, actually has only limited research so that University can advertise such tall claims.
As per UGC report, income from all R&D acitivties in entire Amity University is only INR 62 lakhs. A private sector assignment of credible research can easily be INR 1 crore these days. Few experts from UGC report:
1. Source of Funds
Source of Finance and quantum of funds available: | Provisional figures for the year 2008-09 (Rs. in Crores) |
From Fees: | 327.43 |
From Security Deposit | 8.05 |
From Research & Development | 0.62 |
From other source(interest on FD) | NIL |
Total | 336.10 |
2. [The Amity University, Uttar Pradesh has a good focus on research. It has a number of well equipped modern laboratories and is recognized by the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India as a Scientific & Industrial Research Organization (SIRO). And, the University is now having a number of research projects funded by the various Government of India agencies like DST, DBT, CSIR, DRDO. The University has some well qualified/experienced scientists as faculty members, who have already filed a number of patents based on their R&D work at the University.. Two of these patents have been published by the Patents Office recently.]
- Not even a single private company relying on Amity research. With scams in government organizations out in public, I do not have much to say here.
Today, education institues have become money minting shops and marketing is done to lure candidates only to play with their future. Parents and students have limited choices as quality institutes like IITs, IIMs are limited and even government have diluted these prestiguos brands. I feel Amity University, IIPM and likes should focus on quality teaching and stop faking. If they produce good grads, no advertisement will be required. Source Links:
http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/privateuniversities/amityunii.pdf
http://www.amity.edu/aib/pdfs/Patent_Amity.pdf
http://tnewsagar.blogspot.in/2012/06/amity-university-patents-and-r-claims.html
