Ghost Teachers Join Ranking Race: Data Manipulation Cloud on Delhi's Hansraj College
G.S. Mudur | 04 December 2025 | The Telegraph
A prominent University of Delhi college listed in its 2025 submission for a nationwide academic annual ranking exercise at least 15 teachers who had left the institution months to years earlier, an investigation by The Telegraph has found.
Hansraj College, which draws students from across India, included the names of the 15 former ad-hoc or guest teachers in its list of 316 faculty sent to the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) assessment conducted by the Union education ministry…