Rohtak, Dec. 3 -- Former Haryana deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala and Rohtak MP Deepender Singh Hooda on Tuesday demanded legal action against Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) vice-chancellor (VC) Rajbir Singh and other senior officials, accusing them of misleading students after the UGC's Distance Education Bureau (DEB) found the university "ineligible" to offer online and distance learning courses. NAAC has also warned the university to remove the "A+ grade accredited by NAAC" claim from its website.

HT reported on December 1 that the DEB found MDU ineligible to run open and distance learning and online programmes for 2025-26 under the UGC (Open and Distance Learning and Online Programmes) Regulations, 2020. NAAC had directed ...