As universities have missed the September 7 deadline to submit reports on actions taken against colleges without National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) accreditation or with inactive accreditation, the directorate of higher education is treating this matter seriously. They have set up a schedule for vice-chancellors and university representatives to meet with Minister of Higher and Technical Education, Chandrakant Patil to provide updates in person.

In a strongly worded letter dated September 4, Dr Shailendra Deolankar, the director of higher education, gave universities a three-day deadline to report the actions taken against these institutes. In this letter, addressed to registrars of all non-agricultural universities in the state, Dr Deolankar instructed them to compile a list of colleges that have not initiated the accreditation process, failed to obtain accreditation or re-accreditation or have inactive or expired accreditation by the start of the first-year admission process.