Property dealers, politicians and their kith and kin were often beneficiaries of the policy of wholesale merchandising of education pursued by the UPA-I government and recommended to be scrapped by the UPA II. While minister of state for information in the present government S Jagathrakshakan’s involvement in the Bharath University is the best known case, he is not the only one.
Tripura governor D Y Patil is another such education entrepreneur. Mr Patil is the eponymous founder of the D Y Patil University, which also finds itself in the list of ‘doomed’ institutions . While governor Patil is preoccupied with his constitutional duties, it is his son Ajeenkya D Patil who runs the show. Mr Patil has been the corporator of Kolhapur Municipal Council (1957 to 1962) and member of the Maharashtra assembly from 1967 to 1978. Governor Patil’s interest in education appears to extend beyond universities and colleges to international schools as well. Interestingly, one of the four international schools owned by Mr Patil across Maharashtra is named after NCP leader Sharad Pawar — Sharad Pawar International School in Pune.
It is not just the politicos who benefited from Arjun Singh’s largesse, in Haryana two property dealers stepped out of their core areas of business to run education institutes . Manav Rachna International University’s OP Bhalla was a property dealer with substantial involvement in Faridabad’s Sainik Colony. In the 1990s, he ventured into education and set up the Career Institute of Technology and Management. He went on to build on this institute to set up a university which was given deemed to university status in October 2008. The other property dealer is Tarsem Kumar Garg, who is the chancellor of Maharishi Markandeshwar University.
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