UGC rules blamed for helping promote fake journals in India - Nature India

"India’s University Grants Commission (UGC), responsible for maintaining standards of higher education, has been blamed for the mushrooming of 'predatory journals' in the country1.

The allegation comes from the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), the country's premier scientific society, in the form of a scathing editorial in its journal 'Proceedings of INSA.'"