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Regulations pertaining to Admission and Fee Structure:

University Grants Commission
(Regulations for Admission and Fee Structure in Private Aided &
Unaided Professional Educational Institutions) Regulations, 2004.

(In supersession of Regulations No.F.1-22/93 (CPP-II) dated October, 1997, and in partial
supersession of Interim Policy Regulations No. F.1-6/2003 (CPP-II) dated 10.06.2003 and UGC
(Admission to Specified Professional Programmes) Interim Regulations No. 1-6/2003 (CPP-II) dated
17.12. 2003.
Whereas the University Grants Commission (UGC) is satisfied that it is necessary in public interest
to regulate admission and levy of fees in Private Aided and Unaided Professional Educational
Institutions, including Deemed Universities and joint-venture Universities;

Now, therefore, in exercise of powers conferred by clauses (g) and (i) of sub-section (1) of Section
26, read with sub-section (2) of Section 12-A, of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956, the
University Grants Commission hereby makes the following Regulations, namely:

1. Short title and Commencement
1.1. These Regulations may be called the University Grants Commission (Regulations for
Admission and Fee Structure in Private Aided & Unaided Professional Educational
Institutions) Regulations, 2004.
1.2. They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. Definitions

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:
2.1 “Act” means the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 as amended from time to
time;
2.2 “Admission Monitoring Committee” means the ‘National Admission Monitoring
Committee” constituted by the Commission, or the “State Admission Monitoring
Committee” constituted by the concerned State / Union Territory Government to
oversee the admissions including the CET, counseling and selection of candidates.
2.3 “Aided Institution” means an institution (university/ deemed university / college/
institute/ organization) receiving support from the Central/ State / Union Territory
Government, or any grant disbursing statutory body of such governments, whether in
the form of financial grant, or in the form of land, subsidized land, subsidized leased
land or building, or any other facility given at a concessionary rate to the institution;

2.4 “Candidate” means a person seeking admission to a professional programme of study;
2.5 “CET” means Common Entrance Test conducted by or on behalf of the Commission /
Central / State / Union Territory Government;
2.6 “Commission” means the University Grants Commission established under Section 4
of the Act;
2.7 “Competent Authority” means:

(I) The Commission in relation to the deemed universities, universities set up by a
private trust or a society on its own or und Section 25 of the Companies Act or
under a Central legislation or as a joint venture between the Central Government
and a private trust or society or company, as also private professional educational
institutions affiliated to or recognized by such or other Central universities;

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