Months after mid-day exposed how certain colleges in the city exist only on paper or severely lack adequate facilities—but participated in the centralised online admission process nevertheless, the Maharashtra education department cancelled the permission of a Sion-based junior college run by Rao Educational Trust. In the wake of this newspaper`s coverage, the department inspected the colleges in question, leading to the cancellation of recognition of the Sion college from where a pizza eatery is being run.

On November 14, mid-day, in a detailed report on the ghost colleges, brought to fore three junior colleges run by Rao Educational Trust. The colleges listed by the trust in the online admission system, at Andheri, Sion and Kharghar, were only on paper and no institutions were running at the address for a couple of years. The Rao Educational Trust, Andheri (West) received permission to run Rao Junior College of Science, Sion, in June 2018 provided they presented the sale deed/gift deed or rent agreement for 30-year lease, challan of Rs 30,000, audit of three consecutive years and fixed deposits mentioned by the government within three months.