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Regulations pertaining to Autonomy to HEIs:

The Ministry shall forward the application to the Commission for its advice within
ten days of the receipt of the application.
11.7.2– The Institutions of Eminence Deemed to be Universities applying for
off-campus centre(s) shall have to meet the following stipulations in the proposed
off-campus centre(s) within a reasonable time period not exceeding five years:-
(i) teacher student ratio shall not be more than 1:20 OR shall be as per the requirement
of the concerned Statutory Council(s). The teacher student ratio shall be 1:10 at
the end of the five years. The faculty for this purpose 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, however, that at least sixty per cent. of the faculty shall be appointed on
permanent/regular basis;
(ii) a minimum of five hundred students on its rolls under regular class room mode
with one third PG/Research students;

(iii) five PG programmes;
(iv) research Programmes;
(v) built up area of not less than thirty square metres per student which shall
include academic (academic buildings, library, lecture hall, laboratories, etc.),
administrative (hostels, faculty residences, health care), common and recreational
facilities.
Provided that at the time of starting the programme(s), the academic and physical
infrastructure at the proposed off-campus centre(s) shall be in accordance with the
norms/standards prescribed by the UGC/concerned Statutory Council(s). Such
programme shall have the approval of the relevant Statutory Council(s), wherever
required. The Institutions of Eminence Deemed to be Universities shall ensure
that the norms and standards of the Off-Campus Centre shall be the same as that
maintained in the main campus for similar courses, and the Off-Campus Centre
shall also follow similar admission criteria, curriculum, examination system
and evaluation system. All the information about the off-campus centre shall be
disclosed on the website of the Institution of Eminence Deemed to be University:

Provided further that the Institutions of Eminence Deemed to be Universities
shall be permitted to start an Off-Campus Centre(s) in an interim campus subject
to the condition that the permanent campus shall be ready within a reasonable
time period not exceeding five years.

Provided also that the Institutions of Eminence Deemed to be Universities shall
ensure that by the end of ten years of the starting of the Off-Campus Centre,
the Off-Campus Centre is evolved as a multi-disciplinary research and teaching
campus having at least 3 faculties with a minimum of 300 teachers and 3000
students.
11.7.3- The Commission shall place the application before the Empowered Experts
Committee for examination and its recommendations on the application. There
shall be no requirement of physical inspection. This process shall be completed
within thirty days of the receipt of the application from the Ministry.

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