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Regulations pertaining to Accreditation of HEIs:

5 Period of Validity and Reaccreditation
5.1 The accreditation will be valid for a period of five years

5.2. It shall be mandatory for each accredited Higher Educational Institution to apply for
Reaccreditation six months before the expiry of the five year period in accordance with
the norms and procedures prescribed by the relevant Accreditation Agency.
6 Duties and Obligations of Assessment and Accreditation Agency
The Assessment and Accrediting Agency shall:

6.1 ensure complete transparency in its operations and strictly abide by a code of ethics.
6.2 provide an opportunity to all stakeholders in the Higher Educational Institution
including students, teachers and non-teaching employees, to submit their views on
matters of academic quality.

6.3 provide an opportunity to all Stakeholders in the Higher Educational Institution
including students, and non-teaching employees, to file suggestions or objections, if
any, on the Self Study Report (SSR) prepared by the Higher Educational Institution for
submission to the Accreditation Agency, which shall be taken note of by the Assessment
and Accreditation Agency while finalizing the accreditation.
6.4 publish on its website the final accreditation together with all documents based on
which such accreditation was given to the Higher Educational Institution.
6.5 complete the accreditation process I take a final decision on the accreditation application
within six months of receipt of application form the Higher Educational institution.

6.6 take a decision on application, submitted within 90 days of grant of accreditation,
for withdrawal/ modification of accreditation, against which any person or body is
aggrieved, within 90 days of receiving the application.-
7. Assessment and Accreditation as Pre-requisites.
7.1 No Higher Educational Institution or its Faculties, Schools, Departments, Centres
or any other units therein, by whatever name called, shall be eligible for applying or
receiving financial assistance from Commission under any of its schemes without
having undergone assessment and accreditation within stipulated period as defined in
Clause 4.1 above.

7.2 No institution, other than those under de novo category, shall be eligible to apply or be
considered for being declared as an institution deemed to be university under section 3
of the Act, without having undergone assessment and accreditation as laid down by the
Commission.
7.3 No university shall be notified or recognized under Section 12B of the UGC Act,
if not duly accredited as per Clause 4.1 above, after coming into force of these
regulations.
7.4 No college shall be notified recognized under Section 2 (f) of UGC Act, if not duly
accredited as per Clause 4.1 above, after coming into force of these regulations.

8. Incentives
The Commission shall allocate any higher level of funding, as it may deem fit, tog such
higher education institution as are accredited in the highest grade.

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