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Regulations pertaining to Student’s Grievance Redressal, Promotion of Equity, Anti-Ragging Measures, and
Prevention of Sexual Harassment etc.:

(k) “Ombudsperson” means the Ombudsperson appointed under these regulations;
(l) “Prospectus” means and includes any publication, whether in print or otherwise, issued
for providing fair and transparent information, relating to an institution, to the general
public (including to those seeking admission in such institution) by such institution or
any authority or person authorized by such institution to do so;
(m) “Region” means a geographical territory, comprising of States, so determined, for the
purpose of facilitating enforcement of these regulations; namely, South-Eastern Region
comprising Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar, and Tamil
Nadu; South-Western Region comprising Kerala, Karnataka, and Lakshadweep; Western
Region comprising Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa, Dadar and Nagar Haveli, Daman and
Diu; Central Region comprising Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan; Northern
Region comprising Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana,
Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Chandigarh; North-Eastern Region comprising Assam,
Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Nagaland;
and Eastern Region comprising West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha.

(n) “State” means a State specified in the First Schedule to the Constitution and includes a
Union territory;
(o) “Student” means a person enrolled, or seeking admission to be enrolled, in any institution
to which these regulations apply;
(p) “University” means a University so defined in clause (f) of section 2 of the Act or,
where the context may be, an institution deemed to be University declared as such
under Section 3 thereof.
(q) University Student Grievance Redressal Committee” (USGRC) means a committee
constituted under these regulations, at the level of the university, for dealing with
grievances arising out of decisions of the DSGRC, ISGRC or CSGRC.

4. MANDATORY PUBLICATION OF PROSPECTUS, ITS CONTENTS AND PRICING:
(1) Every institution, shall publish and/or upload on its website, before expiry of at least
sixty days prior to the date of the commencement of the admission to any of its courses
or programs of study, a prospectus containing the following for the information of
persons intending to seek admission to such institution and the general public, namely:

(a) the list of programs of study and courses offered along with the broad outlines of
the syllabus specified by the appropriate statutory authority or by the institution,
as the case may be, for every course or program of study, including teaching
hours, practical sessions and other assignments;

(b) the number of seats approved by the appropriate statutory authority in respect of
each course or program of study for the academic year for which admission is
proposed to be made;
(c) the conditions of educational qualifications and eligibility including the minimum
and maximum age limit of persons for admission as a student in a particular course
or program of study, specified by the institution;
(d) the process of selection of eligible candidates applying for such admission,
including all relevant information in regard to the details of test or examination
for selecting such candidates for admission to each course or program of study
and the amount of fee prescribed for the admission test;
(e) each component of the fee, deposits and other charges payable by the students

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