CBI foils education accreditation racket; JNU professor, top university officials implicated

JNU prof, Rajeev Sijariya, currently the dean of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee School of Management and Entrepreneurship played a crucial role in deciding the final bribe amount

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NEW DELHI: CBI exposes mass bribery scandal where officials from NAAC and Andhra Pradesh Private University are involved: Ten persons have been arrested, including a professor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and vice-chancellor of a private university, along with several members of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), for allegedly colluding to provide undue accreditation to educational institutions in lieu of a bribe.

The first information report (FIR) by the CBI details that officials at Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, had made deals with some members of the NAAC inspection team to acquire a good grading. Initially, they demanded the entire team at Rs 1.80 crore but later settled down to Rs 3 lakh and one laptop for every member of the team and Rs 10 lakh for the chairman of the committee.

It is also mentioned that the travelling expenses of a committee member's wife were also taken care of as part of the deal.