UGC and Education Ministry Face Heat over Galgotias AI Impact Summit Robot Row
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 03 March 2026 | The Telegraph
The government and the UGC are not known to have acted on Galgotias University, the private institution that caused massive embarrassment to the nation by displaying at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi a Chinese-made robot as an in-house innovation on February 18.
Unlike the prompt action taken against several other universities for various violations over the years, the silence of the education ministry and the UGC on Galgotias has drawn sharp criticism from academics. The varsity had been made to vacate its pavilion at the AI summit after the fiasco, but no follow-up action is known to have been taken…