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Regulations on Affiliation of Colleges by the Universities:

2.2.10 Procedure for submission of appeal and evaluation by the Standing
Appeal Committee
2.2.10.1 The technical college, if aggrieved by the decision of university on
its application seeking affiliation of technical college, may submit
an Appeal stating facts and ground of Appeal, within a period of
15 days from the date of receipt of the letter/order/decision of the
university on their application.
Provided further that for the purpose of this provision, the date of
communication, in case of signed hardcopy of the letter, shall be the
date of receipt of such communication sent by university and in case
of communication of decision through e-mail, or short messaging
service (SMS) or fax, the date of communication shall be the date of
dispatch of the communication by university.
2.2.10.2 The Appeal of the technical college will be considered by the
Standing Appeal Committee of university, ordinarily, within a period
of 15 days from the date of receipt of the Appeal and for the purpose
of consideration of the Appeal, the Standing Appeal Committee may
devise its own procedure.
2.2.10.3 The decision of the Standing Appeal Committee shall be
communicated within a period of 10 days from the date of decision
of the Standing Appeal Committee.
Such decision of the Standing Appeal Committee and communication
thereof including date of communication shall be reported to the
university in its next meeting for information.
2.2.10.4 The appeal schedule shall be notified by the university.
2.2.10.5 Applicants may be advised to adhere to given Standing Appeal
Committee schedule and not to remain absent for Appeal.
If the applicant remains absent for Appeal, then, in no circumstances
whatsoever, their applications / proposals shall be taken up by the
Standing Appeal Committee in view of constraint of time for the
given academic year and such technical colleges, if it so desires,
may apply afresh for the next academic session.
Such technical colleges remaining absent for any reason whatsoever
shall not be entitled for any further appeal.
2.2.10.6 An officer of the university shall place the records before the Standing
Appeal Committee. A representative of the technical college shall be
invited to place the point of view of the technical college before the
Standing Appeal Committee for consideration.
2.2.10.7 The Standing Appeal Committee at its discretion may recommend
an Expert Committee visit for verification of the claims made by the
applicant Society / Trust / Company after the Visit stage or reject the
appeal, as the case may be.
2.2.10.8 The Expert Committee, if recommended by the Standing Appeal
Committee, shall verify all the requirements of setting up a new
technical college / programme as per the existing norms.
This report shall prevail over all the earlier expert committee reports
that may have been submitted earlier.

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