The University of Pune (UoP) has a total of 638 affiliated colleges. Many of them situated in the interiors of Pune, Ahmednagar and Nashik districts.

To keep a tab on the working of the colleges affiliated to the university, a four-member Local Inquiry Committee (LIC) visits an institute once in two years and submits a report to the Board of College and University Development (BCUD) of the UoP; a rule unchanged since many years. Surprisingly, the BCUD has never carried out any survey on the number of colleges lacking basic amenities, blatantly flouting norms, and still being affiliated without facing any action.u00a0