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Regulations pertaining to Autonomy to HEIs:

University Grants Commission
(Institutions of Eminence Deemed to be Universities) (Amendment)

Regulations, 2021.

Notification
New Delhi, the 1st January 2021

F. No.-1-4/2016(IoE) --- In exercise of powers conferred by clauses (f) and (g) of sub-section
(1) of section 26 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956), the University
Grants Commission hereby makes the following regulations to amend the UGC (Institutions of
Eminence Deemed to be Universities) Regulations, 2017, namely:-

1. Short title and Commencement,---(1) These regulations may be called the UGC (Institutions
of Eminence Deemed to be Universities) (Amendment) Regulations, 2021.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the UGC (Institutions of Eminence Deemed to be Universities) Regulations, 2017
(hereinafter referred to as the said regulations); in regulation 2.0.,-

(a) for sub-regulation 2.10, the following sub-regulation shall be substituted, namely:-
‘2.10 “Ministry” means the Ministry of Education’;

(b) for sub-regulation 2.12, the following sub-regulation shall be substituted, namely:-
‘2.12 “Off Campus Centre” means a centre of the Institution of Eminence Deemed to
be University, approved by the Government, and situated beyond its Campus within
India.’;
(c) for sub-regulation 2.13, the following sub-regulation shall be substituted, namely:-
‘2.13 “Off-shore Campus” means a centre of the Institution of Eminence Deemed to
be University, approved by the Government, and situated beyond its Campus outside
India.’;
(d) in sub-regulation 2.15, for the words, brackets and letters “Medical Council of India
(MCI)” the following words “National Medical Commission” shall be substituted.

3. In the said regulations, in regulation 4.0, in sub-regulation 4.2, for clause 4.2.7, the following
sub-regulation shall be substituted, namely:-
“4.2.7 The faculty student ratio should be not less than 1:20 at the time of notification issued
declaring an institution as an Institution of Eminence and should increase over time so as not
to be less than 1:10 after five years of this date. The faculty for the purpose of calculating
the teacher-student ratio shall include the regular faculty, adjunct faculty, overseas faculty,
visiting faculty, contractual faculty, industry faculty and tenure track faculty, or faculty as
otherwise permitted by the Statutory Council(s) concerned-:

Provided, that 60 per cent of the faculty shall be appointed on permanent/regular basis
and part-time faculty shall not be counted for this purpose. Moreover, 60 per cent of the
permanent/ regular faculty shouldn’t breach 1:10 faculty student ratio at any point of time.

4. In the said regulations, in sub-regulation 5.2, for the words “MHRD” the following word
“Ministry” shall be substituted.
5. In the said regulations, in regulation 6.0, in sub-regulation 6.1, for clause (iii) the following
clause shall be substituted, namely:-

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