Ashok Chauhan

Ashok Chauhan is an Indian industrialist and president of the Amity Education Group. He is also the founder of Ritnand Balved Education Foundation.[1][2][3][4]

Personal life and career

Ashok Chauhan lives in New Delhi. According to his son, Atul, it was in the 1980s that Chauhan thought of entering into the education industry. In the mid-1990s, Chauhan founded Amity, and later in 2005, he founded Amity University.[5]

Controversies

Chauhan has been the subject of multiple outstanding controversies and lawsuits. In 2000, Chauhan was charged with a lawsuit in Germany, but was never extradited for prosecution.[6]

In 2005, AICTE, India's regulator of private colleges, cancelled Amity University's license for its postgraduate business course. Independent accounts from journalists also attest to the failure of the university to comply with AICTE guidelines.[7]

Rule 2(a) of the CISCE Rules for Affiliation 2016 explicitly states that schools in India must be run by a registered society or trust for non-profit purposes and are not allowed to serve as profit-oriented investment ventures.[8] Despite this, Chauhan is known to own a row of houses in posh Defence Colony of Delhi, strongly implying that the trust funds of his Balved Foundation were used against the law for personal gains.[9]

Awards and recognition
  • 'Excellence in Education Award' from Ramakrishna-Vivekananda International Foundation.[10]
  • 'Lifetime Achievement Award For Higher Education' by Franchise India in 2011.[11]

References
  1. Self published site Archived 18 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved on 1 November 2012
  2. "Three-day Business Summit 'INBUSH 2011' starts at Amity". Business Standard. 24 February 2011.
  3. Ajmer Singh (11 June 2005). "Schooled in Deceit" (PDF). News report. Vol. 2, no. 23. tehelka.com. p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2014. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
  4. Clemens Jurgenmeyer (August 1992). "Hinduism in the Modern World" (PDF). Conference details. The Heidelberg-based document server archive. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
  5. "Private university to follow quota norms". The Times of India. 7 January 2005. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  6. "A controversial Indian university wants to expand its education empire to the US". Quartz. 19 April 2022.
  7. "Controversies dog Amity but students keep streaming in". Mint. 19 April 2022.
  8. "Restrictions on for-profit education in India". Centre for Civil Society. 19 April 2022.
  9. "Controversies dog Amity but students keep streaming in". Mint. 19 April 2022.
  10. "Amity Founder-President honoured at nation-building forum". BusinessStandard. 14 January 2011.
  11. "Indian Education Awards 2011, the National Awards on Excellence in Education, announced". Education Diary. 4 May 2011. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
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