At least 21 fake universities in India churning out fake degrees

 There are reported to be at least 21 fake universities in India churning out fake degrees, as confirmed by the University Grants Commission, the regulatory body of higher education in India. Some churned out even fake medical degress. This is no laughing matter.

India needs to change its education system to weed out fake universities, provide the right mix of courses for its industrialisation program, if it aspires to be the 'factory of the world'. But that is going to take time, a generation in fact is now needed to correct the inbalance. Even the USA is now facing an acute shortage of skilled workers for its intent to lure back manufacturing, not to mention its chip manufacturing monopolorisation moves, after decades of hollowing out its industrial base and not training enough science and engineering graduates in the process. This predicament will befall the EU as well, particularly Germany and France as manufacturing moves to China, USA and elsewhere.

And the first thing India needs to tackle en masse is infrastructure development. Decades of talk about improving the rail system seems just empty talk, with a rail system still stuck in the past, more than a century and a half of an old dinosaur system inherited from the British. This is one area that needs upgrading and is most important for industrialisation moves to succeed, besides roads and training of skilled workers.

India's attempt to quickstart its manufacturing is like putting the cart before the horse, by aiming for industrialisation before putting infrastructures in place. It will be an exercise in futility. Investors will come, lured by the narratives of its young population, see for themselves the unfriendly infrastructures, getting shocked by reality, trying to live with the worst of it, failing to compromise working within it, and eventually will be running away with just their pants on. Not only is doing business already difficult under such constraints, the Government appears to give investors the wrong signal by using unbusinesslike tactics to force them to hand over control to Indians, or sell to Indian conglomerates when successful, or face penalties or punishment. 

Anonymous 

PS. The fact that millions of Indians have come and gone from Singapore, and barely a handful got caught is good enough proof that fake degrees is not a problem in Singapore. With this fact Singaporeans may also argue that this report is false. They would say, show me the proof. This may be the reason why Singapore continues with the CECA, so happy with CECA. No Problem. ALL Indians are honest and their degrees are real. Trust us.