The guideline will address this issue. Universities will set a deadline for registration of students for PhD programmes and approval of the thesis in a time-bound manner to award degrees to scholars without much delay. It will also look into the matter related to use of anti-plagiarism Software and maintaining the quality of the research. Some universities are asking scholars to publish their research articles in the Scopus indexed journals, while others are advising somewhere else. After finding all these issues, we thought the council should bring a uniform guideline for the universities on this, said the council member.