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Regulations pertaining to Admission and Fee Structure:

University Grants Commission
(Regulation of Admission and Fees in Private Non-aided Professional
Institutions) Regulations, 1997.

Notification

No.F.1-22/93 (CCP-2) October, 1997

Whereas the University Grants Commission is satisfied that it is necessary to regulate admission
and levy of fees in private unaided professional educational institutions; self-financing deemed
universities and joint venture universities in public interest :
Now, therefore, in exercise of powers conferred by clause (i) of sub-section (1) of Section 26, read
with sub-section (2) of Section 12-A of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956),
the University Grants Commission, with the previous approval of the Central Government and after
consultation with the Universities concerned, hereby makes the following regulations, namely :-
1. Short title and commencement.- (1) These regulations may be called the University
Grants Commission (Regulation of Admission and Fees in Private Non-aided Professional
Institutions) Regulations, 1997.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. Applicability. - These regulations shall apply to:
(a) colleges affiliated to the Universities and operating on no grant-in-aid basis;
(b) institutions deemed to be universities under Section 3 of the Act, if such institutions
operate on self-financing basis without receiving maintenance grants from the Central
Government, any State Government or any statutory body under their control and
disbursing grants;
(c) universities not receiving grant-in-aid from the Central Government or any State
Government or any grant disbursing statutory bodies of such Governments for the
maintenance or development expenditure of such universities; and

(d) universities established as a joint venture between a private trust or society and a State
Government.
3. Definitions. - In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires :-
(a) “Act” means the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956);
(b) “appropriate authority” means the Central Government, a State the Commission,
a University or other authority which under any law for the time being in force, is
competent to grant permission to establish, or to grant recognition to, a professional
educational institution.
(c) “Commission” means the University Grants Commission established under Section 4;
(d) “Committee” means the Standing Committee of the Commission or the State Level
Committee, as the case may be;

(e) “competent authority” means the University Grants Commission, the Central
Government, a State Government or a University or any other authority, as may be
designated by the Commission to determine the fees or scales of fees payable by students
and the allotment of students for admission to various professional institutions;
(f) “Fees-”, in relation to payment seats or free seats means all the institutional fees
including tuition fee and development fee;

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