In Aligarh Muslim University’s Malappuram campus, students uncovered financial irregularities running into lakhs forcing the provost to resign earlier this month. It has been a battle for the Sachar Committee’s promise of educational excellence for India’s marginalised communities.
Every year, NIRF, India's premier university ranking system under the Education Ministry, publishes a list that students trust and institutions build their reputations around. An RTI based investigation by The Leaflet on India’s largest minority varsity now shows that it misrepresented data and NIRF simply accepted it on face value.
