Mysuru: “I am not a Vice- Chancellor of Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) but a clerk who sends records and documents to the University Grants Commission (UGC). My role has been reduced to that of a clerk whose job is just to scout for documents and submit the same to the UGC.”
These were the words of KSOU Vice-Chancellor (VC) Prof. D. Shivalingaiah, who was expressing his unhappiness over the UGC’s move to derecognise KSOU and its distance education programmes. He took umbrage on the attitude of the UGC in not providing the recognition, virtually killing the University and threatening the careers of thousands of students.
