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

University Grants Commission

(Open and Distance Learning) Regulations, 2017 (First Amendment)
NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the I Ith October, 2017

F.No. 2-4/2015 (DEB-111).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section I of section 26
read with clause (j) of section 12 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956), the
University Grants Commission hereby makes the following regulations to amend the University
Grants Commission (Open and Distance Learning) Regulations, 2017, namely:—

1. Short title, Application and Commencement:
1.1 These regulations may be called the University Grants Commission (Open and
Distance Learning) Regulations, 2017 (First Amendment)
1.2 These shall come into the force on the date of their publication in the official Gazette.
2. In the University Grants Commission (Open and Distance Learning) Regulations, 2017,
in regulation 19, for sub-regulation (2), the following sub-regulation shall be substituted
namely:—
“(2) Certificates or Diplomas or Post Graduate Diplomas awarded by the Standalone
Institutions which also have been approved by the Commission based on the policies of the
then Distance Education Council of the Indira Gandhi National Open University for running
Open and Distance Learning programmes till the academic year 2016-17 shall remain valid
programmes in the field of Open and Distance Learning mode of education till the academic
session 2017-18 and thereafter they shall be free to get converted their Standalone Institution
status to University or Deemed to be University for the purpose Of these Open and Distance
Learning regulations, failing which, the Commission shall not accord any approval to the
Open and Distance Learning programmes of Standalone Institutions.

P.K. THAKUR, secy. (UGC)

[ADVT.- 111/4/Exty./262/171

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