Hello,
It is not every day that a State government goes the extra mile to aid the establishment of an international university. Is it wrong? It is absolutely not if it is for the benefit of the students.
Our latest investigation reveals how a Trust with a two-room flat as its registered office in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad secured the nod from the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Tripura, a northeastern Indian state, to run a private university nearly 2,000 kilometres away.
The university in focus, Aryavart International University, became a reality after the Tripura government, led by Chief Minister Manik Saha, passed the law in the state legislative assembly in 2023.
What is interesting is that the promoters of the Ira Social Charitable Trust, which is the University’s sponsoring body, and the Trust together donated Rs 50 lakh (Rs 5 million) to the BJP around the same time it secured the government’s nod for the University.
Read the report by Angana Chakrabarti and Vandana Menon here: How a BJP Donor from Ghaziabad Got to Run a Private University in Tripura
We are not done with this. We will dig deeper. Please follow this space as our team examines if this pattern repeats across the northeastern Indian region, where most states are ruled by a BJP-led government or a coalition supported by the BJP.
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Mayank Aggarwal
Editor
The Reporters’ Collective