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shall submit its report to the Distance Education Council.

The report of the committee shall be placed before the Council of the Distance Education Council for its consideration.

The Director of the Distance Education Council shall communicate the decision of the Council to the university and to the University Grants Commission.

WITHDRAWAL OF PERMISSION

 If the university which is permitted to run the Distance Education programmes fails to comply with the conditions of recognition as provided in (1) above, or if it is conducting the university affairs in a manner prejudicial to the interest of the University Grants Commission and Distance Education Council or the academic standards laid down by them, the Distance Education Council may issue a notice to the Registrar of the said university to show cause as to why the privileges conferred on the university to run programmes under ODL System should not be withdrawn in part or in whole or in modified form.

The Distance Education Council shall mention the grounds on which it proposes to initiate the above-mentioned action and shall send a copy of the notice to the Registrar of the said university. It shall also specify, the period-which shall not be less than thirty days - within which the university should file its written statement in reply to the notice.

On receipt of such written statement from the Registrar of the university or on the expiry of the period as specified in the notice issued under sub clause (4.1) above, the Director, Distance Education Council shall place before the Council, the notice and written statement, if any, with or without the motion of withdrawal or modification of such privileges.

The Distance Education Council shall, giving due regard to the interest of the students studying in the university under the Distance Education mode, recommend to the University Grants Commission, the action to be taken in this respect and the University Grants Commission shall, thereafter, proceed to implement the recommendations.

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Minimum Requirements for Starting a Programme under the ODL System by the Conventional Universities

Every conventional university, desirous of starting a Distance Education programme or those universities which are already running such programmes shall arrange for adequate infrastructural facilities such as adequate space in order to provide efficient student support services (such as student registration, despatch of study material, storage of study material, academic counselling, organization of multimedia facilities etc.).

Sufficient academic and administrative back-up such as the Director, core faculty, administrative and technical staff as per the requirements.

Separate staff to handle all the financial matters.

In order to make the best use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), the university shall provide :-

i. Office Automation Tools - MS Office, Internet browser, e-mail, EPBX 

ii. Communication Technologies 
LAN with minimum ten nodes and web server facility for multimedia, scanner, printers, web camera etc.

Audio-Visual Production Centre (AVC)
The university may avail the facilities of Audio-Video Production Centre of the State Open University for the production of self-instructional multimedia packages or they may create their own in phased manner.

Students Evaluation Set-up :

i. With a view to reducing dependence on external resources and in order to develop an evaluation technology for distance learners, the university shall create a central data base of resource persons, paper setters, moderators, examiners.

ii. The university shall develop in a scientific manner, comprehensive course-wise, computerized Question banks that may serve as resource material for the paper setters.