A high-powered committee to evaluate performance of the country's 53 private universities has recommended shutting down eight for violating rules and regulations.
The eight-member committee headed by its convenor Dr M Asaduzzaman, chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC), submitted its report to the prime minister on Sunday.
The committee has found 18 universities not following the government rules. However, it spared 10 considering their overall performance satisfactory and gave them different deadlines of two and one and a half years to meet the requirements.