I am a college librarian of a degree college. In my locality some institute are giving the PhD in distance mode which are affiliated as off campus study center giving phd degre. I have a question, how far it is acceptable if some one do the PhD in distance education or  university off campus study center and some one doing the Phd in a university in regular basis.the UGC In both case the give the same weightage to the both scholar. So far as the new PhD rule is implied every one should fulfill the criteria as well the university itself. But some university is giving the off campus admission  to phd till date. How they do I dont Know. If any rule have in UGC of giving the Phd in correspondence basis where we found it.