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

f) Each supervisor shall submit a certificate indicating that the work done by the researcher
under him / her is plagiarism free.
g) HEI shall submit to INFLIBNET soft copies of all Masters, Research program’s
dissertations and thesis within a month after the award of degrees for hosting in the
digital repository under the “Shodh Ganga e-repository”.
h) HEI shall create Institutional Repository on institute website which shall include
dissertation / thesis / paper / publication and other in-house publications.
7. Similarity checks for exclusion from Plagiarism
The similarity checks for plagiarism shall exclude the following:

i. All quoted work reproduced with all necessary permission and/or attribution.
ii. All references, bibliography, table of content, preface and acknowledgements.
iii. All generic terms, laws, standard symbols and standards equations.
Note:

The research work carried out by the student, faculty, researcher and staff shall be based
on original ideas, which shall include abstract, summary, hypothesis, observations, results,
conclusions and recommendations only and shall not have any similarities. It shall exclude a
common knowledge or coincidental terms, up to fourteen (14) consecutive words.
8. Levels of Plagiarism

Plagiarism would be quantified into following levels in ascending order of severity for the
purpose of its definition:
i. Level 0: Similarities upto 10% - Minor similarities, no penalty
ii. Level 1: Similarities above 10% to 40%
iii. Level 2: Similarities above 40% to 60%

iv. Level 3: Similarities above 60%
9. Detection/Reporting/Handling of Plagiarism
If any member of the academic community suspects with appropriate proof that a case of
plagiarism has happened in any document, he or she shall report it to the Departmental
Academic Integrity Panel (DAIP). Upon receipt of such a complaint or allegation the DAIP
shall investigate the matter and submit its recommendations to the Institutional Academic
Integrity Panel (IAIP) of the HEI.

The authorities of HEI can also take suomotu notice of an act of plagiarism and initiate
proceedings under these regulations. Similarly, proceedings can also be initiated by the HEI
on the basis of findings of an examiner. All such cases will be investigated by the IAIP.

10. Departmental Academic Integrity Panel (DAIP)

i. All Departments in HEI shall notify a DAIP whose composition shall be as given
below:

a. Chairman - Head of the Department
b. Member - Senior academician from outside the department, to be nominated by
the head of HEI.
c. Member - A person well versed with anti plagiarism tools, to be nominated by the
Head of the Department.

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