After many people pointed out that the University Grants Commission's "White List" of "approved" journals had many, many predatory journals (see, for example, this recent report in The Hindu), UGC tried to make amends by issuing another list [pdf], which now consists of all the journals which are "removed" from the list of "approved" journals.
What is really galling is that in this pruning process, which killed some 4000+ journals, UGC has gone way too far on the other side, and removed a whole bunch of legitimate journals. [see this report from today's The Hindu].
I just learnt that The Indian Journal of History of Science, published by the Indian National Science Academy, has also been kicked out of the "approved" list!
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This, (assuming it is not driven by some revenge agenda)is what I am afraid of when the MHRD wants to cut in half the syllabus to be taught in schools.
(https://www.financialexpress.com/education-2/ncert-syllabus-to-be-halved-mhrd-sets-ball-rolling-on-cutting-down-school-curriculum-from-classes-1-to-12/1088966/)
Like cutting out journals at random,good with the bad, syllabii will be chopped off at random leaving puzzling gaps.
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