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

University Grants Commission
(Open and Distance Learning Programmes and Online Programmes)
(Amendment) Regulations, 2021.

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 1 July, 2021
st
F. No. 1-10/2020 (DEB-I).- 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)
with the previous approval of Central Government, the University Grants Commission hereby
makes the following Regulations to amend the University Grants Commission (Open and
Distance Learning Programmes and Online Programmes) Regulations, 2020, namely :-

1. Short title and commencement.-
(1) These regulations may be called the University Grants Commission (Open and Distance
Learning Programmes and Online Programmes) (Amendment) Regulations, 2021.
(2) These shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the University Grants Commission (Open and Destane Learning Programmes and Online
Programmes) Regulations, 2020 (herein referred as Principal Regulations), in regulation 3 in
clause (A) sub-clause (i), the following proviso shall be substituted, namely: -
“Provided that the NAAC and NIRF Ranking requirements shall be valid for next three
academic years i.e. 2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024. Thereafter shall be reviewed by
the Commission for the academic session 2024-2025 (session beginning July 2024) and
onwards.”
3. In the said Principal Regulations, in regulation 3 in clause (B) sub-clause (a), the following
proviso shall be substituted, namely:-
“Provided further that the NAAC and NIRF Ranking requirements shall be valid for next
three academic years i.e. 2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024. Thereafter shall be reviewed
by the Commission for the academic session 2024-2025 (session beginning July 2024) and
onwards.”
4. In the said Principal Regulations, in regulation 3 in clause (B) sub-clause (b)(ii), the following
proviso shall be substituted, namely:-
“Provided that the NAAC and NIRF Ranking requirements shall be valid for next three
academic years i.e. 2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024. Thereafter shall be reviewed by
the Commission for the academic session 2024-2025 (session beginning July 2024) and
onwards.”

RAJNISH JAIN, Secy.
[ADVT.- III/4Exty./131/2021-22

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