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UGC Rules regarding Fitness of HEIs for Grants and Budget and Accounts:

University Grants Commission
(Fitness of Certain Universities for Grants) Rules, 1974.

New Delhi, the 9 Sep., 1974.
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NOTIFICATION

In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 25 of the University Grants Commission Act,
1956 (3 of 1956) read with Section 12A Now read as 12B of that Act, the Central Government
here by makes the following rules, namely:

1. Short title, application and commencement:
(1) These rules may be called the University Grants Commission (Fitness of Certain
Universities for Grants) Rules, 1974.
(2) They shall apply to every university established after the commencement of the
University Grants Commission (Amendment) Act, 1972 (33 of 1972), other than,
(i) an agricultural university

(ii) a university established against the advice of the Commission for imparting,
exclusively, technological or medical education; and

(iii) an institution recognized by the Commission, under the clause (f) of Section 2 of
the University Grants Commission Act. 1956 (3 of 1956), on or after the 17 day
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of June 1972, the date on which the University Grants Commission (Amendment)
Act, 1972 (33 of 1972) come into force.
(3) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. Fitness for Grant-
“No University to which these rules apply shall be declared to be fit to receive grants from the
Central Government” the University Grants Commission or any other Organization receiving any
funds from the Central Government unless the Commission is satisfied that:
(I) the University is a University established or incorporated by or under a Central Act, or

(II) in the case of any other University, the establishment of the University is justified on
one or more of the following grounds, namely:

a) inadequacy of the facilities for higher education and research in the area in which
the University is situated and the inability of the existing University or Universities
of the state concerned to provide for such facilities either in its or their existing
faculties or schools or by the establishment of postgraduate centres or campuses.
b) the University has or shall have some special features or new, programme and
activities which will augment the existing academic resources in the country.
c) the University has or shall have programmes for the upliftment of backward areas
or removal of region imbalances.
(III) the law under which the University is established contains a provision for the
establishment of a Planning Board or Committee consisting of eminent educationists to
indicate the lines on which the University shall develop.
(IV) in the law under which the University is established, due weight has been given to the
recommendations made by:
a) the Education Commission (196-466) constituted by a resolution of the
Government of India;

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