India, July 6 -- West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has sent out a strong message on maintaining quality in higher education, saying private institutions should not treat learning exclusively as a commercial commodity while pursuing returns on their investments.

Replying to a query on attracting foreign universities to the State during an interaction with the civil society members on Saturday evening, he said his Government is ready to consider any good proposal a reputed foreign university comes up with.

"We can think of an Education City where we can have many higher educational institutions and industries. There can be both public and private universities. We can even invite foreign universities. If reputed foreign universit...