Alliance University

Alliance University
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Alliance University
Type Private
Established 2010 (2010)
Affiliation UGC
Chancellor Prof. Sudhir Angur[1][2]
Vice-Chancellor Dr. Pavana Dibbur[3]
Students 6,500 (2016)[4]
Location Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Website alliance.edu.in [3]

Alliance University is a private university, situated in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The university was established in Karnataka State by Act No.34 of the year 2010, under The Alliance University Act, 2010[5] and is recognized by the University Grants Commission (India) (UGC).[6]

Foundation

Alliance University grew out of the "Academy Business School", which was founded around 2005 and in turn grew out of the "Alliance Group of Institutions", which had been founded in the mid-1990s.[7] Madhukar G. Angur, then on the faculty of University of Michigan, was an honorary dean of the Academy Business School and his brother, Sudhir Angur, was the president.[8][9]

Alliance Business School was unrelated to the "Alliance Business Academy" that was affiliated with Bangalore University.[10][11]

Alliance University was one of the first private universities in the state of Karnataka along with Azim Premji University, and was established under state legislation.[10] The sponsoring body of the university is Alliance Business School Pvt. Ltd, run by the Angur family, and until 2016 the university's chancellor was Madhukar Angur.[12]

As of 2016 it had around 6,500 students.[4]

Leadership disputes

As early as 2014 disputes within the Angur family began interrupting the management of the university; in 2015 Madhukar Angur removed his brother, sister, and other family members from the board and filed police charges that they had stolen money and mismanaged the university.[13]

In February 2016 Madhukar Angur was arrested on charges of raping his niece, then released, and further rape allegations were made the next month.[14][15]

Around April 2016 Madhukar Angur was fired as chancellor and replaced by his brother, Sudhir Angur, and by June the power struggle within the family for control led to the university being closed for two weeks and semester-end exams were indefinitely postponed.[16] The university went on holidays two more times in 2016;[4] in September Madhukar Angur forcibly took back the chancellorship, and the next month his brother forcibly took it back.[17]

Government intervention

In November 2016 a government-appointed investigation by M.I. Savadatti reported that it found that between 2010 and 2016 Madhukar Angur had been "deeply involved in committing huge financial irregularities causing wrongful loss to Alliance University a total amount of Rs 96 crore"[18][19] (around US$14 million).

Students and their families began to request refunds, and appealed to the government of Karnataka to intervene.[20] The government had no legal right to intervene in a private university, and in November worked to change the law so that it could.[21] In December 2017 the government appointed an administrator with unspecified tenure and said that the Angurs could no longer be involved in managing the operations of the university.[22] As of March 3, 2018 litigation between family members over control of the university shares was pending in the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT).[2][23]

High Court's judgement

On March 28, 2018, the Karnataka High Court rules in favor of Alliance University and Chancellor Prof. Sudhir Angur. The High Court gave permanent injunction to Madhukar Angur to stay away from the University and all affairs of the University. In addition, the High Court also upheld Prof. Sudhir Angur to be the Chancellor of Alliance University.[2][1]

Ranking

The university was ranked #7th among the best private universities in India by India Today in its July 2018 issue in a survey done by MDRA.[24] Alliance School Of Business was ranked #61 among India's Top 100 B-Schools 2018 list by The Financial Express (India).[25]

The Alliance College of Law was ranked 10th among the 10 by India Today's "India's Best Colleges 2014: Law".[26] Eduniversal ranked Alliance School of Business as 9th in the rankings of "excellent business school with reinforcing international influence" in India.[27] Its Alliance Business School was ranked #46 in The Economic Times's Top 50 business school list in 2011.[28]

References

  1. 1 2 Harish Kumar, Sreenivas (March 28, 2018). "Mr Madhukar G Angur vs M/S Alliance Business School on 28 March, 2018". indiankanoon.org.
  2. 1 2 3 "In the High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru (judgement)" (PDF). judgmenthck.kar.nic.in. Karnataka High Court. March 28, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Alliance University". www.ugc.ac.in.
  4. 1 2 3 "Alliance varsity declares holidays yet again". The Hindu. October 16, 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "KARNATAKA ACT 34 OF 2010 THE ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY ACT, 2010" (PDF). kshec.ac.in. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
  6. ↑ "State Private University". ugc.ac.in. University Grants Commission (India).
  7. ↑ "Alliance offers management diploma". The Hindu. 8 June 2006.
  8. ↑ Veenhuis, David (February 7, 2010). "U investigates professor". The Michigan Times. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013.
  9. ↑ Govindarajan, Nirmala (July 17, 2007). "Biz schools beckon the gals - Times of India". The Times of India.
  10. 1 2 Kurup, Deepa (20 March 2010). "Private varsities Bills draw flak for 'arbitrary approval process'". The Hindu.
  11. ↑ Seshagiri, Mathang (January 4, 2011). "Plan to split Bangalore University into 2 ready". Times of India.
  12. ↑ Prasad, Shyam (May 11, 2017). "HC puts students first in Alliance's internal dispute". Bangalore Mirror.
  13. ↑ Kumar, Praveen (May 6, 2015). "Alliance sours: B-school in family feud". Bangalore Mirror.
  14. ↑ "Chancellor of private varsity held for rape - Times of India". The Times of India. February 7, 2016.
  15. ↑ Gowda, Aravind (March 7, 2016). "Second rape case against Alliance University chancellor Madhukar G Angur". India Today.
  16. ↑ Kulkarni, Tanu (June 27, 2016). "Alliance University students bear the brunt of family feud". The Hindu. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  17. ↑ Ram, Theja (11 November 2017). "As a family feud spirals out of control, students of Alliance University get harassed". The News Minute.
  18. ↑ Joshi, Bharath (11 November 2016). "Panel finds Rs 96-cr scam at Karnataka's first private varsity Alliance University". The Economic Times.
  19. ↑ Kulkarni, Tanu (11 November 2017). "Government mulling over taking control of Alliance University". The Hindu.
  20. ↑ "Government may appoint administrator for Alliance University". The Hindu. December 17, 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  21. ↑ Belur, Rashmi (November 12, 2017). "Karnataka will amend Education act to rein in private varsities". The New Indian Express.
  22. ↑ Belur, Rashmi (15 December 2017). "Government appoints administrative officer for Alliance university". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  23. ↑ Belur, Rashmi (March 3, 2018). "Alliance University students approach government for fee refund". The New Indian Express.
  24. ↑ "Alliance University Ranked 7th Best Private University in India". Bangalore: Daily Pioneer. Press Trust of India. August 28, 2018.
  25. ↑ "Top MBA colleges in India 2018: These are best 100 B-schools; IIM Ahmedabad is #1 – Full list is here". The Financial Express (India). March 15, 2018.
  26. ↑ "India's Best Colleges2014:Law". India Today. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
  27. ↑ "Business Schools ranking in India CENTRAL ASIA". Eduniversal. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
  28. ↑ "ET Business school ranking: The Top 50". The Economic Times. April 18, 2011.

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