Janardan Rai Nagar Rajasthan Vidyapeeth University - JRNRVU

In a major setback to thousands of students who pursued engineering studies through correspondence courses offered by deemed universities in the last 16 years, the Supreme Court declared that the degrees were invalid, putting them at risk of losing jobs obtained on the basis of the certificates. The court adjudicated of petitions on the validity of correspondence courses of four deemed universities JRN Rajasthan Vidyapeeth, Institute of Advanced Studies in Education in Rajasthan, Allahabad Agricultural Institute and Vinayaka Mission's Research Foundation in Tamil Nadu which have been providing engineering education through correspondence since 2001 despite AICTE disapproval.