The forty four deemed universities under cloud over lacking appropriate academic infrastructure got an assurance from the Centre in the Supreme Court that they would be given an opportunity to explain their case. Attorney General G E Vahanvati gave the undertaking to a bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma that the government would send fresh individual notices, grant personal hearing and opportunity to make further representation. He said wherever necessary, the Government would conduct physical verification of the universities. The apex court while recording the Attorney General’s submission on Tuesday, granted the government two weeks to issue the notice, two weeks thereafter to the aggrieved varsities to file their replies. It asked the Government to pass individual orders on the replies sent by the universities and place a comprehensive report before the bench by April 23 and posted the matter for further hearing to May 3. In the meantime, the bench said its earlier status quo order restraining the government from taking any action against the universities would continue till further directions.