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

7.2. HEIs shall obtain approval from their respective statutory authorities such as the
Governing/ Executive Council/ Syndicate/ Board of Management/ Academic Council
etc., to apply for registration with ABC.
7.3. Registered HEIs shall be required to admit students to individual courses, in addition to
their admissions to full degree programmes.
Provided that, in order to avoid overcrowding in a course(s) of any HEI, such HEI shall
be permitted to have additional (supernumerary) seats in such course(s), subject to prior
approval by the appropriate Statutory/ Regulatory/ Professional Standards Setting Body.
Provided further that, in respect of courses, not coming under the purview of any
Statutory/ Regulatory/ Professional Standards Setting Body the Registered HEI may,
subject to availability of required infrastructure, create supernumerary seats with the
approval of its statutory authorities.
Provided also that, Registered HEIs may also offer a set of ‘Courses’, exclusively for
the purpose of the ABC Scheme.
7.4. Registered HEIs shall have the appropriate educational infrastructure in terms of
audio-visual facilities, e-resources, Virtual classrooms and studios etc., and specifically
high bandwidth internet connectivity to support ODL/ On-line courses/programmes
and other infrastructural facilities for face to face theory/practical/training courses as
specified, from time to time, under the relevant UGC Regulations and/or Statutes or
Ordinances of the HEI.

7.5. A Registered HEI shall have a webpage on its website containing details of the facility
of ABC, list of all Registered HEIs, guidelines/Standard Operating Procedures for the
students to utilise the facility effectively, along with a link to the website of ABC.

8. ABC Implementation methodology:
8.1. ABC is essentially a credit-based, and highly flexible, student-centric facility.
8.2. Registered HEIs shall, with the approval of their statutory authorities, amend the extant
Ordinances relating to, inter alia, Course registration, Course requirements, acceptance
for inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary courses, Credits to be offered to such
courses, Credit transfers and Credits acceptance from other approved HEIs, nature of
grades to be awarded etc.
8.3. Registered HEIs shall encourage and enable students to customise/design their own
degrees utilising ‘Courses’ selected by the student from among courses offered by one
or more of the Registered HEIs.
Provided that, the student shall be required to earn at least 50% of the credits from the
HEI awarding the degree/diploma/certificate.
Provided further that, the student shall be required to earn the required number of credits
in the core subject area necessary for the award of the degree/Diploma/Certificate, as
specified by the degree awarding HEI, in which the student is enrolled.
8.4. Students availing flexibility under the facility of ABC provided in Regulation 8.3,
hereinabove, are entitled to subscribe only to ‘Courses’ of their choice and aptitude,
so as to enable them to accumulate credits; and not to the entire ’Programme of study’
leading to the award of a degree by the Registered HEI.
8.5. The ABC shall maintain a dynamic online directory of HEIs which satisfy the eligibility
criteria stipulated under the clause-7 of these Regulations.

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