NCERT granted deemed-to-be university status

Exam-focused facts from the 4 April 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has been declared a deemed-to-be university by the Ministry of Education on the advice of the University Grants Commission (UGC).
The deemed status covers NCERT and its six constituent units: Regional Institutes of Education in Ajmer, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Mysuru and Shillong, and the Pandit Sunderlal Sharma Central Institute of Vocational Education in Bhopal.
NCERT is now empowered to award its own degrees and must launch research, doctoral and innovative academic programmes.
All academic programmes must conform to UGC norms and cannot be commercial or profit-making.
NCERT must participate in National Institutional Ranking Framework rankings and create Academic Bank of Credits identities for its students.