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

University Grants Commission
(Online Courses or Programmes) Amendment Regulations, 2020.

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 17th January, 2020

F. No. 2-5/2019 (OL).—In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) 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 (Online Courses or Programmes) Regulations, 2018, namely:-

1. Short title and commencement. –
1) These regulations may be called the University Grants Commission (Online Courses or
Programmes) Amendment Regulations, 2020.
2) They shall come into the force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the University Grants Commission (Online Courses or Programmes) Regulations, 2018,
in regulation 2, in sub-regulation (2), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-
“Provided that the University Grants Commission may, by order, exempt the Indira Gandhi
National Open University, a university established under the Indira Gandhi National Open
University Act, 1985 (50 of 1985), from the application of these regulations, considering the
objectives of the said Act”.
RAJNISH JAIN, Secy.
[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./416/19]

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