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

University Grants Commission
(Fitness of Institutions for Grants) Rules, 1975.

New Delhi, June 24, 1975

NOTIFICATION

In exercise of the power conferred by Section 25, read with Section 12B of the University Grants
Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules,
namely-

1. Short title, application and commencement:-
1. These rules may be called the University Grants Commission (Fitness of Institutions
for Grants) Rules, 1975.
2. They shall apply to every institution recognised by the Commission under clause (f) of
section 2 of the University Grants Commission Act,1956 (3 of 1956) on or after the 17th
day of June, 1972 the date on which the University Grants Commission (Amendment)
Act, 1972 (33 of 1972) came into force.
3. They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. Fitness for grant:
No institution to which these rules apply shall be declared to be fit to receive grants from the
Central Government, the Commission or any other Organisation receiving any fund from the
Central Government unless the Commission is satisfied that the institution:

1. Provides instruction upto a Bachelor’s degree or upto a postgraduate degree only or
provides instructions for a diploma course of duration of not less than one academic
year and for which the minimum qualification for admission is a Bachelor’s degree;
2. is registered as a society under the Societies Registration Act. 1860 (21 of 1860) or is a
body corporate established or incorporated under a Central
Act, a provincial Act or a State Act, for the time being in force or is a Trust with
Trustees being appointed and vested with legal powers and duties: and
3. is permanently affiliated to a University which has been declared fit under section 12B
of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956) for receiving grants.

Sd/-
(K.N. Channa)
Secretary to the Government of India.

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