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Regulations pertaining to Admission and Fee Structure:

(g) “Free Seats” means the seats on which the fee payable by a student seeking admission,
to and prosecution, of a course of study at a level corresponding to the fees as specified
for the Government colleges and institutions in the concerned State of Union Territory
in respect of similar courses of study;

(h) “Institution” means a college affiliated to a University or approved or recognized by
Government or any competent statutory body, including the All India Council for
Technical Education, Dental Council of India, Medical Council of India and National
Council for Teacher Education, established or incorporated by, or under, a Central Act or
State Act, and includes an institution deemed to be a University declared by the Central
Government on the recommendation of Commission under Section 3 and all institutions
recognised by the Commission under clause (f) of Section 2 and imparting education;
(i) “NRI” means a Non-Resident Indian and the expression “non-resident” has the same
meaning as assigned to it under the Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961);
(j) “professional institution” includes any private unaided institution imparting education
in Social Work, Home Science, Library Science, Education, Computer Science,
Commerce, Law and the like and includes such other institution to which these
regulations are made applicable by the Commission;
(k) “Payment Seats” means seats other than Free Seats and for which fee payable by a
student seeking admission, to and prosecution of a course of study shall not exceed the
limits specified under these regulations;
(l) “section” means a section of the Act; and

(m) “student” includes a person seeking admission in a course of study.
4. Admission. - (1) No student other than a student who fulfils the requirements of the
University Grants Commission (the minimum standards of instructions for the grant of first
degree through formal education in the faculties of Arts, Humanities Fine Arts, Music, Social
Sciences, Commerce and Sciences) Regulations, 1985, shall be eligible for admission to a
first degree course or to a post-graduate level professional course of study.
(2) Without the previous permission of the appropriate authority, no institution shall start a
new or higher professional course of study.
(3) The competent authority shall call for applications for admission to the seats available
in any academic year in the institutions.
(4) The competent authority shall advertise in at least three leading newspapers out of which
one shall be in a local vernacular language, the number of seats available for admission
institution-wise, the fees to be charged for the duration of the course separately for both
Free Seats and Payment Seats, and the procedure and schedule for admission.
(5) At the time of inviting applications for admission in any course of study the competent
authority shall fix a last date for the allotment of Free Seats.
(6) The competent authority shall issue a brochure containing the application form for
admission, full particulars of the courses, number of seats available names of the
professional institutions and their location, the fees chargeable by each professional
institution, the minimum eligibility conditions for admission and such other particulars
as may be deemed necessary by the competent authority.
(7) The application form for admission issued by the competent authority shall contain a
column wherein an applicant shall indicate the order of preferences, whether he wishes
to be admitted against a Free Seat or a Payment Seat, or both, as well as the preference
of institutions, in case of more than one institution is offering the same course.
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