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Regulations on Establishment, Maintenance and Recognition of Institutions:

University Grants Commission
(Institutions Deemed to be Universities) Regulations, 2016.

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 11th July, 2016

F. No. 1-3/2016(CPP-I/DU)

PREAMBLE

To regulate, in an orderly manner, the process of declaration of institutions as deemed to be
universities; preventing institutions of dubious quality from being so declared; and, further to
maintain quality of higher education imparted by institutions deemed to be universities consistent
with the ideals of the concept of a university; the University Grants Commission, in exercise
of powers conferred under clauses [f] & [g] of sub-section [1] of Section 26 of the University
Grants Commission Act, 1956, hereby, makes the following Regulations namely:-
1.0 SHORT TITLE, APPLICATION AND COMMENCEMENT

1.1 These Regulations may be called the UGC [Institutions Deemed to be Universities]
Regulations, 2016.

1.2 These Regulations shall apply to every institution seeking declaration as an institution
deemed to be university under the Act as also, albeit prospectively, to an institution
which has been declared as an institution deemed to be university under Section 3 of
the UGC Act, 1956.
1.3 They shall come into force with effect from the date of their notification in the Official
Gazette.

1.4 These Regulations shall replace the UGC (Institutions Deemed to be Universities)
Regulations, 2010 and its subsequent amendments.

2.0 DEFINITIONS
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:
2.01 “Act” means the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 [Act 3 of 1956].
2.02 “Campus” means Campus of the institution deemed to be university at its headquarters,
wherein its major facilities, faculty, staff, students and its Academic Departments are
located in a city /town /village in India. ‘Off- Campus centre’ means an approved (by
the Central Government) centre of the institution deemed to be university beyond its
Campus in the country. Headquarters includes all the campuses situated in the same
city/town/village.
2.03 “Commission” means the University Grants Commission (UGC) constituted under the
Act or any other body empowered to regulate an institution deemed to be university
under any law for the time being in force.

2.04 “Committee of Experts” means a Committee appointed by the Commission consisting
of academics, researchers or other experts in the relevant fields of knowledge and
notified under these Regulations for such purpose as it may specify; and there may be as
many Committees of Experts as the Commission may determine for different purposes.
2.05 “Constituent Institution” means an institution operating under the administrative,
academic and financial control of the sponsoring body and declared as such under the
Notification.

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