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Regulations on Establishment, Maintenance and Recognition of Institutions:

9.5.6 The Ministry of Human Resource Development shall issue, normally within 60
days of receipt of advice of the Commission, a Letter of Intent (LoI), or otherwise.
9.5.7. The applicant Society/Trust/Company will set up the Institution and indicate its
readiness for commencing academic operations, as per the plan within 3 years of
issue of the LoI.
9.5.8 Once the indication for readiness for commencing academic operations is received
in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, the Ministry shall ask, normally
within 30 days of receipt of such indication, the Commission to submit its advice
after following the procedure elaborated in these Regulations.
9.5.9 The Ministry of Human Resource Development shall take the final decision on
the proposal as per the provisions of these Regulations.

9.5.10 In case of an existing institution apply for Deemed to be University status
under de-novo category but not having the infrastructure required under these
Regulations, such institution may apply to the Ministry of Human Resource
Development as per the procedure at Regulations 9.5.1 to 9.5.8.
10.0 FUNDING
Institutions which are declared as institutions deemed to be universities shall continue to
receive the funds for their maintenance and developmental expenditure, including the salary
and non-salary increases in expenditure and the future expansion, from the same funding
sources which have been funding them prior to such declaration. Such Institutions may also
supplement their finances. However, Government as per its policy can withdraw the funds
being given.
11.0 MAINTENANCE OF STANDARDS
11.1 An institution deemed to be university shall maintain standards, higher than the
minimum, of instruction, academic and physical infrastructure, qualifications of
teachers, etc. as prescribed for college level institutions by the Commission or by the
Statutory/Regulatory body concerned, such as All India Council for Technical Education
(AICTE), Medical Council of India (MCI), Dental Council of India (DCI), National
Council for Teachers Education (NCTE), Bar Council of India (BCI), Indian Nursing
Council (INC), etc. and shall obtain their approval for running various programmes of
study, wherever applicable. This shall be periodically monitored by the duly constituted
Committee (s) of the Commission.

11.2 There shall be a mandatory intensive external review of every deemed to be university
once in every five years based on the criteria prescribed by the Commission from time
to time.
Provided that if an institution has been in the highest NAAC/NBA (for all eligible
courses) grade for two continuous cycles, the review can be done by the Institution
itself through external peer review mechanism.
11.3 The Institution shall give a regulatory compliance certificate every year in the format
prescribed by UGC every year, which shall also be displayed on the subject to approval
of the Government.
11.4 In case there have been found to be persistent or serious complaints being received
against an institution, the UGC can order an inquiry against the institution, after taking
approval of the Government, and take further action based on the result of the inquiry.
Provided that Government also can suo moto ask UGC to initiate an inquiry in such
cases of malfeasance, cheating, serious student/staff/faculty complaints, etc.
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