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

(vi) appoint external subject experts or agencies or organisations for validation and annual
review of its in-house process, its Learner Support Centres, Open and Distance Learning
mode programmes etc.;

(vii) appoint third party auditing bodies for quality audit of programme(s);
(viii) approval of Self-Appraisal Report to be submitted to the Assessment and Accreditation
agencies on behalf of Higher Educational Institution;
(ix) promote collaboration and association for quality enhancement of Open and Distance
Learning mode of education and research therein; and
(x) encourage industrial involvement and industry-institution linkage for providing
exposure to the learners.

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