The Gujarat Governor, O P Kohli said that the state's universities have become "PhD-producing factories" owing to the "low quality" research being carried out there. The Governor said that the researchers have not put enough efforts for their theses.

"Here, two kinds of research are done," said Kohli, the chancellor of most of the state-owned universities, according to a TOI report, "One by people who want to be promoted - from the post of assistant professor to associate professor or from associate professor to professor. In such cases, the candidates do not work hard for their research. Therefore, our universities have become factories for producing PhD degrees."

Kohli stated this while speaking at a book launch at the Gujarat University Senate hall. The book concerned is written by Father Vinayak Jadav, professor of Gujarati literature and journalism at St Xavier's College in Ahmedabad, titled 'Gujarati Literary Journalism: Trends and Experiments'.

Kohli praised Yadav for his intensive research; Jadav edits the tribal magazine 'Adilok' and also serves as the honorary editor of 'Doot', a 100-year-old magazine.

Jadav's book, which is 500-page long, deals with the trends in Gujarati literary journalism. In the book, he has included details of famous vernacular periodicals such as, 'Parab', 'Kumar', 'Shabd-Srushti' and 'Buddhi-Prakash'. He also talks about the relationship between fact and fiction in both, journalism and literature. Apart from these, the book also discusses literary journalism and its nature, and talks about the content and inspiration of different literary works.

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