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Regulations pertaining to Credits, Academic Programmes and Award of Degrees:

(xi) activity planner including all the academic activities to be carried out by
the Higher Educational Institution during the academic session and the
details of July cycle and January cycle shall be notified separately:
Provided that the Higher Educational Institution shall publish informations
referred to in clause (i) to (xi) on its website, and the attention of the
prospective learners and the general public shall be drawn to such
publication on its website and Higher Educational Institutions admission
prospectus and the admission process shall necessarily be over prior to the
beginning of the session:
Provided further that the Higher Educational Institution may publish
prospectus at any time before the expiry of sixty days.
(g) No Higher Educational Institution shall, directly or indirectly, demand or charge
or accept, capitation fee or demand any donation, by way of consideration for
admission to any seat or seats in a course or programme of study conducted by it.

(h) No person shall, directly or indirectly, offer or pay capitation fee or give any
donation, by way of consideration either in cash or kind or otherwise, for obtaining
admission to any seat or seats in a programme in Open and Distance Learning
mode offered by a Higher Education Institution.
(i) No Higher Educational Institution, who has in its possession or custody, of any
document in the form of certificates of degree, diploma or any other award or other
document deposited with it by a person for the purpose of seeking admission in
such Higher Educational Institutions, shall refuse to return such degree, certificate
award or other document with a view to induce or compel such person to pay any
fee or fees in respect of any course or programme of study which such person does
not intend to pursue or avail any facility in such Higher Educational Institution.

(j) In case a learner, after having admitted to a Higher Educational Institution, for
pursuing any programme in Open and Distance Learning mode subsequently
withdraws from such Higher Educational Institutions, no Higher Educational
Institution in that case shall refuse to refund such percentage of fee deposited by
such learner and within such time as has been mentioned in the prospectus of such
Higher Educational Institution.
(k) No Higher Educational Institution shall, issue or publish—
(i) any advertisement for inducing learners for taking admission in the Higher
Educational Institution, claiming to be recognised by the appropriate
statutory authority or by the Commission where it is not so recognised; or
(ii) any information, through advertisement or otherwise in respect of
its infrastructure or its academic facilities or of its faculty or standard
of instruction or academic or research performance, which the Higher
Educational Institution, or person authorized to issue such advertisement
on behalf of the Higher Educational Institution knows to be false or not
based on facts or to be misleading.
(l) On being granted recognition under clause (i) of sub-regulation (4) of regulation 3,
a Higher Educational Institution shall admit students to its approved programmes
only from the academic session specified in the recognition order:
Provided that enrolment of learners to the Higher Educational Institution, for any
reason whatsoever, in anticipation of grant of recognition for offering a programme
in Open and Distance Learning mode, shall render the enrolment invalid.

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