Mumbai: While setting up its future coarse of action for the 44 blacklisted deemed universities, the task force is facing the music as it heads towards a road-block upon finding no feasible solution for the problem of resettlement.

There are no answers to the negligence allowed to these universities, which surpassed various norms for years leading to a bleak future of hundreds of students who signed up under distance learning for professional courses like engineering, or several candidates in other countries enrolled for programmes started by these deemed universities having no validity now.

Although India has opened doors for the foreign universities to settle in but it should also implement an exit policy to ward off these Indian varsities from foreign lands, which no more holds the validity to function.

It is the laxity in policy of India due to which the foreign countries have been asked to deal with these deemed universities on their land under their laws.

The task force has proposed a slew of measures on the deemed universities status implementing on the recommendations of the review committee.

Many deemed universities started their branches or even off-campuses in various parts of India and in foreign lands, inspite of the University Grants Commission's (UGC's) rules according to which they are prohibited to do so.

According to the task force report, "If permissible under the law governing such universities, programmes run in foreign countries have to be affiliated to one of the state universities or else, the relevant local laws of the host country shall ply."

With no exit policy in its purview, the experts stated that the country is in an embarrassing position.

Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, Pondicherry; Vinayak Mission's Research Foundation, Salem and Barath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai are some of the institutes which have started plying their off-campuses and violated the stipulated norms.

"The only solution that could be meted out to these universities could be to burden them to the states and local public varsities while reducing their earlier status of a college," said an official while enumerating it as common instances.

The report further pointed out that any new institution/ college which did not have any prior affiliation to any university after acquiring the 'deemed to be university' status, is bound to seek a new affiliation to an appropriate state university.

The sources however reveal that most of the states would have a tough time in accommodating such students, "We don't have vacant seats. It is not easy to accommodate additional strength of students given that the pool of seats is small."

It has also been resolved that those enrolled in the distance learning programmes would be further referred to either the state open university or the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).

The fate of students who are enrolled in courses that violate the norms and cannot be adjusted even in the distance learning mode will however have to face discontinuation.