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Regulations on Establishment, Maintenance and Recognition of Institutions:

(22) “NEP” means the National Education Policy, 2020;
(23) “NIRF” means the National Institutional Ranking Framework;

(24) “notification” means a notification issued by the Central Government in the Official
Gazette declaring an institution of higher education, as an institution deemed to be
University under section 3 of the Act;

(25) “off-campus” means the premises of the institution deemed to be University, approved
by the Government, other than the main campus or the campuses;

(26) “off-shore campus” means the premises of the institution deemed to be University,
approved by the Government, outside India, other than the main campus in India;

(27) “processing fee” means the fee to be paid by the applicant institution to the Commission
along with the application for processing such application;
(28) “school” or “faculty” means a school or faculty of studies of the institution deemed to
be University;
(29) “sponsoring body” means a body being a charitable or a not-for-profit society or trust
or a company under section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013), submitting an
application for declaring an institution under its administrative, academic and financial
control as an institution deemed to be University;

(30) “Standing Committee” means a committee consisting of academics and other experts
from other fields and includes representatives of the statutory bodies and approved by
the Chairman of the Commission;

(31) “statutory body” means a body constituted under any law for the time being in force for
determining or maintaining standards of quality in the relevant areas of higher education,
including the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the Bar Council of
India (BCI), the Dental Council of India (DCI), the Indian Nursing Council (INC), the
National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) and the National Medical Commission
(NMC), or any other statutory body established under an Act of Parliament;
(32) “teacher” means professors, associate professors, assistant professors and such other
academic staff as may be appointed for imparting instructions or conducting research
in the institution deemed to be University including the adjunct faculty or professor of
practice or visiting faculty; and

(33) the words and expressions used in these regulations and not defined, but defined in the
Act shall have the same meanings respectively assigned to them.

3. Objectives of an institution deemed to be University.— (1) The objectives of the institution
deemed to be University shall be to —

(a) provide for higher education leading to excellence and innovations in such branches
of knowledge as may be deemed fit, primarily at undergraduate, post-graduate, and
research degree levels, fully conforming to the concept of a University;

(b) engage in inter-disciplinary or multi-disciplinary or trans-disciplinary teaching and
research in addition to domain-specific specialisation;

(c) provide for high-quality teaching and research recognised nationally and globally;
(d) recognise, identify and foster the unique capabilities of each student, by sensitising
teachers as well as parents to promote each student’s holistic development;
(e) provide multi-disciplinary and a holistic education in the faculties of science,
engineering, technology, social sciences, arts, humanities, sports and other disciplines;

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