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

h. “Higher Educational Institution (HEI)” means a university recognized under section
2(f) of the UGC Act, 1956 or an institution deemed to be university under section 3
of the UGC Act, 1956 or an affiliating college / institution or a constituent unit of a
university;

i. “Information” includes data, message, text, images, sound, voice, codes, computer
programs, software and databases or microfilm or computer generated microfiche;

j. “Institutional Academic Integrity Panel” shall mean the body constituted at Institutional
level to consider recommendations of the departmental academic integrity panel and
take appropriate decisions in respect of allegations of plagiarism and decide on penalties
to be imposed. In exceptional cases, it shall investigate allegations of plagiarism at the
institutional level;
k. “Notification” means a notification published in the Official Gazette and the expression
“notify” with its cognate meanings and grammatical variation shall be construed
accordingly;
l. “Plagiarism” means the practice of taking someone else’s work or idea and passing
them as one’s own.
m. “Programme” means a programme of study leading to the award of a masters and
research level degree;
n. “Researcher” refers to a person conducting academic / scientific research in HEIs;
o. “Script” includes research paper, thesis, dissertation, chapters in books, full-fledged
books and any other similar work, submitted for assessment / opinion leading to the
award of master and research level degrees or publication in print or electronic media
by students or faculty or researcher or staff of an HEI; however, this shall exclude
assignments / term papers / project reports / course work / essays and answer scripts etc.;
p. “Source” means the published primary and secondary material from any source
whatsoever and includes written information and opinions gained directly from other
people, including eminent scholars, public figures and practitioners in any form
whatsoever as also data and information in the electronic form be it audio, video, image
or text; Information being given the same meaning as defined under Section 2 (1) (v) of
the Information Technology Act, 2000 and reproduced here in Regulation 2 (l);
q. “Staff” refers to all non-teaching staff working in HEIs in any capacity whatsoever i.e.
regular, temporary, contractual, outsourced etc.;
r. “Student” means a person duly admitted and pursuing a programme of study including
a research programme in any mode of study (full time or part-time or distance mode);
s. “University” means a university established or incorporated by or under a Central Act,
a Provincial Act or a State Act, and includes an institution deemed to be university
under section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956;
t. “Year” means the academic session in which a proven offence has been committed.
Words and expressions used and not defined in these regulations but defined in the University
Grants Commission Act, 1956 shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in UGC
Act, 1956.

3. Objectives
3.1 To create awareness about responsible conduct of research, thesis, dissertation,
promotion of academic integrity and prevention of misconduct including plagiarism in
academic writing among student, faculty, researcher and staff.
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