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

(C) Provisions for Online Mode:
(i) Territorial Jurisdiction shall not be applicable to the Higher Educational Institutions
for offering recognised Online programmes under these regulations.
(ii) A Higher Educational Institution, shall be eligible to offer only those degree
programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and post graduate diploma
programmes, which it has already been offering in conventional mode of classroom
teaching or in Open and Distance Learning mode and from which at least one
batch has passed out:

Provided that any programme requiring practical or laboratory course as a
curricular requirement, shall be prohibited through Online mode, except in cases
where practical component is limited to programming and coding including
software tools.
(iii) The application is accompanied with demonstrated capability of Higher
Educational Institution for development and production of Online Programmes
for the proposed programmes of study, duly approved by the statutory bodies of
the Higher Educational Institution empowered to decide on academic matters.
(iv) The application is accompanied with evidence of Higher Educational Institution
having access to SWAYAM or other learning platform for the proposed
programmes of study, duly approved by the statutory bodies of the Higher
Educational Institution empowered to decide on academic matters, for-

(a) learner authentication - integrated with Aadhaar or other government
recognised identity for Indian learners and Passport for foreign learners;
(b) learner registration - through a web application with supporting documents;
(c) payment gateway – using Digital Payment system;
(d) learning management System - which tracks the delivery of Programme,
learner’s engagement, assessment, results, and reporting supported by
analytical tools that can help the teachers to extract and use the relevant reports.
(v) The application is accompanied with the evidence of ability to
conduct proctored examinations with all the security arrangements
ensuring transparency and credibility of the examinations.
(vi) The application is accompanied with evidence to ensure that the
Higher Educational Institutions offering Online Programmes is not
having any franchise arrangement with a private service provider
and the ownership of offering Online programmes including all the
required components of Online education and compliance to all the
provisions of the regulations shall be that of Higher Educational
Institutions only.
(vii) The application is accompanied with evidence of availability/
preparedness, the administrative arrangements for supportive
services for effective delivery of all the proposed programme(s) of
study considering the expected enrolment of learners.
5. Programmes Recognition Process.─ (1) A Higher Educational Institution intending to
offer a programme through Open and Distance Learning mode and/or Online mode for
academic session and for subsequent years, shall make an online application, as invited by
the Commission in the format notified by Commission and upload the same on the specified
portal along with scanned copy of all the documents specified therein, at least three months
prior to commencement of the academic session of the programme intended to be offered by
such Higher Educational Institution:
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