The University Grants Commission (Regulation of Admission and Fees in Private Non-Aided Professional Institutions) Regulations, 1997

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    "title": "The University Grants Commission (Regulation of Admission and Fees in Private Non-Aided Professional Institutions) Regulations, 1997",
    "short_title": "The University Grants Commission (Regulation of Admission and Fees in Private Non-Aided Professional Institutions) Regulations, 1997",
    "act_number": "Published vide Notification Gazette of India, Part",
    "act_year": 1997,
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    "location": "Andhra Pradesh",
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    "description": "The University Grants Commission (Regulation of Admission and Fees in Private Non-Aided Professional Institutions) Regulations, 1997",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title and commencement",
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            "content": "University Grants Commission (Regulation of Admission and Fees in Private Non-aided Professional Institutions) Regulations, 1997.",
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            "title": "2. Applicability",
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            "content": "(a) colleges affiliated to the Universities and operating on 'no grant-in-aid' basis;\n(b) institutions deemed to be Universities under Section 3 of the Act, if such institutions operate on self-financing basis without receiving maintenance grants from the Central Government, any State Government or any statutory body under their control and disbursing grants;\n(c) Universities not receiving grant-in-aid from the Central Government or any State Government or any grant disbursing statutory bodies of such Governments for the maintenance or development expenditure of such Universities; and\n(d) Universities established as a joint venture between a private trust or society and a State Government.",
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            "title": "3. Definitions",
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            "content": "(a) \" Act \" means the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956);\n(b) \" appropriate authority \" means the Central Government, a State, the Commission, a University or other authority which under any law for the time being in force, is competent to grant permission to establish, or to grant recognition to, a professional educational institution;\n(c) \" Commission \" means the University Grants Commission established under Section 4;\n(d) \" Committee \" means the Standing Committee of the Commission or the State Level Committee, as the case may be;\n(e) \" competent authority \" means the University Grants Commission, the Central Government, a State Government or a University or any other authority, as may be designated by the Commission, to determine the fees or scales of fees payable by students and the allotment of students for admission to various professional institutions;\n(f) \" Fees \", in relation to payment seats or free seats means all the institutional fees including tuition fee and development fee;\n(g) \" Free Seats \" means the seats on which the fee payable by a student seeking admission to, and prosecution of, a course of study at a level corresponding to the fees as specified for the Government colleges and institutions in the concerned State or Union Territory in respect of similar courses of study;\n(h) \" Institution \" means a college affiliated to a University or approved or recognised by Government or any competent statutory body, including the All India Council for Technical Education, Dental Council of India, Medical Council of India and National Council for Teacher Education, established or incorporated by, or under, a Central Act or a State Act, and includes an institution deemed to be a University declared by the Central Government on the recommendation of the Commission under Section 3 and all institutions recognised by the Commission under clause (f) of Section 2 and imparting education;\n(i) \" NRI \" means a Non-Resident Indian and the expression \"non-resident\" has the same meaning as assigned to it under the Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961);\n(j) \" professional institution \" includes any private unaided institution imparting education in Social Work, Home Science, Library Science, Education, Computer Science, Commerce, Law and the like and includes such other institution to which these regulations are made applicable by the Commission;\n(k) \" Payment Seats \" means seats other than Free Seats and for which fee payable by a student seeking admission to, and prosecution of, a course of study shall not exceed the limits specified under these regulations;\n(l) \" section \" means a section of the Act; and\n(m) \" student \" includes a person seeking admission in a course of study.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Admission",
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            "content": "(ii) The criteria of eligibility and other conditions shall be the same in respect of both Free Seats and Payment Seats except that the higher fee is to be paid for Payment Seats.\n(iii) The management of a professional institution shall not be entitled to impose any additional eligibility criteria or conditions for admission either to Free Seats or Payment Seats.\n(ii) After the allotment of the last seat is made, the waiting list shall be operated for filling any casual vacancies or drop-out vacancies. These vacancies, shall be filled until such date, as may be notified by the competent authority.\n(iii) The competent authority shall decide a cut-off date beyond which no one shall be admitted so as to ensure that a student does not miss a good part of the syllabus of the semester or term.",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Constitution of Committees for fixation of fees payable",
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            "content": "(a) professional institutions affiliated to Central Universities;\n(b) any professional institutions which are deemed to be Universities;\n(c) Universities not receiving grant-in-aid from the Central Government or any State Government or any grant disbursing statutory bodies of such Governments for the maintenance or development expenditure of such Universities; and\n(d) Universities established as a joint venture between a private trust or society and a State Government.\n(a) A Member of the Commission - Chairperson;\n(b) (i) One Vice-Chancellor to be nominated by the Commission -Member;\n(ii) Three experts, one each in Economics, Cost Accountancy and Institutional Finance, to be nominated by the Commission -Members;\n(iii) One Expert in the subject area - Member;\n(iv) In case a deemed University conducts courses of study such as technical education, medical education and teacher education of which there is a statutory council, for example, the All India Council for Technical Education, Medical Council of India, Dental Council of India and the National Council for Teacher Education, a nominee of such Council - Member;\n(v) Secretary in charge of Higher, Technical or Medical education (depending on the field of specialization of the institution) of the concerned State Government or his nominee who is not below the rank of Deputy Secretary to the Government of India may be co-opted as a member for the purposes only of determining the fee structure for deemed universities in the State concerned;\n(vi) An officer of the Commission not below the rank of Additional Secretary - Member-Secretary.\n(ii) The State Level Committee which may be constituted in every State by the Commission shall consist of:\n(a) Vice-Chancellor of one of the Universities in the State nominated by the State Government concerned  - Chairperson;\n(b) Secretary in charge of Higher Education of the State Government concerned  - Member;\n(c) Secretary of the Finance Department of the State Government concerned  - Member;\n(d) Three experts, one each in Institutional Finance, Cost Accountancy and Economics to be nominated by the Commission  - Members;\n(e) A Finance Officer of one of the Universities to be nominated by the State Government  - Member; and\n(f) Director in charge of Higher or Collegiate Education of the State Government concerned  - Member-Secretary.",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Procedure to be adopted by the Committees",
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            "content": "(ii) The Committees shall also have power to call for such information and details as they may consider relevant for fixation of fees.\n(iii) For the purpose of carrying out its functions effectively, the Committees shall lay down a time bound 'action-calendar' and 'dead-lines' for compliance by the institutions concerned and for completing tasks of the Committees.",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Procedure for determining fees",
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            "content": "(ii) The fees when revised shall be applicable only to new entrants.\n(ii) The concerned Committee may seek any data or clarification from the concerned professional institutions and may also allow the institution to supplement or modify the data submitted by it originally.\n(iii) While deciding the fee structure for Free Seats, Payment Seats and NRI, Foreign students, the concerned Committee shall, take into consideration, the parameters which affect the cost, the total expenditure of the institution for running the professional course as computed on the basis of audited statements of the previous two years and reasonable projected estimation for the next three years.\n(iv) The fees to be charged shall have two broad categories, namely, tuition fee and development fee.\n(v) The management of the institution may realise the actual cost of board and lodging from the students subject to the relevant Committee being satisfied about the reasonableness of such costs.\n(vi) The tuition fee shall be to meet the actual cost of imparting education.\n(vii) While assessing a fair tuition fee, the Committee shall take into account the following, namely:\n(a) Salary and allowances including bonus, if admissible, payable to teaching and non-teaching employees;\n(b) expenditure on administrative services;\n(c) cost of maintenance of laboratories including consumables;\n(d) contingent expenditure including statutory requirements like audit fee, and the like;\n(e) cost of acquisition of books and journals for libraries;\n(f) maintenance of buildings and other assets including rents and tariffs; and\n(viii) Having due regard to the parameters mentioned in this sub-regulation, suitable rates may be fixed for holders of Free Seats, Payment Seats and NRI, Foreign students.\n(ii) In case the Commission finds it difficult to lay down specific quantified norms, the relevant Committee shall satisfy themselves about adequacy and the reasonableness of the expenditure involved.\n(iii) While specifying the norms, the Commission shall ensure that the projected expenditure does not become a source of profit to the management of the professional institutions.\n(ii) The development fee may be at flat rates.\n(iii) Based on intelligible and objective criteria, the Commission may classify the institutions into different categories for the purpose of prescribing different slabs or rates of development fees.\n(iv) While determining the rates of development fees, the Commission shall take into account the views and suggestions of the private professional institutions, the State Governments and interested members of the general public.",
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            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Admission of students",
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            "content": "(a) 50 per cent of the seats in professional institutions established and administered by a minority shall be filled on the basis of merit list prepared by the competent authority. Out of these 50 per cent seats, half shall be Free Seats and the other half shall be Payment Seats.\n(b) The remaining 50 per cent of seats shall be filled by the management of the institution from amongst the candidates belonging to the concerned minority community out of which half shall be Free Seats and other half shall be Payment Seats.\nExplanation:\n(c) After completing the admission, each minority professional institution shall submit to the competent authority, the concerned University and the concerned State Government, a statement containing full particulars of the students admitted against 50 per cent seats filled up by the management from amongst the candidates belonging to the concerned minority.\n(ii) The competent authority may, at its discretion, fill any seat which may remain unfilled in five per cent NRI quota in any academic year.\n(iii) The fees chargeable from the students admitted under this sub-regulation shall be the same as chargeable for the students admitted against Payment Seats and not against the NRI seats.",
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            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Interpretation",
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            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Maintenance of account of fees",
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            "content": "(ii) The maintenance accounts shall be kept in two parts, namely, (a) the pay and allowance, and (b) the other expenditure.\n(iii) All recurring expenditure shall be met from the maintenance account and brought to account in the part relating to pay and allowances, or as the case may be, under the other expenditure.",
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            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Other procedural matters connected with levy of fees",
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            "content": "(ii) Fee may be payable in advance for a semester.\n(iii) Each Committee shall notify in the month of December every year, for general information, the total fee payable per semester for the next year, in three newspapers having circulation in the State concerned. Every year, the Committee shall fix the fees applicable for the third year.\n(i) levy any fee exceeding the fee notified under these regulations;\n(ii) fail to maintain accounts required to be maintained as per the provisions of these regulations or the guidelines issued by the Commission.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "AP220",
        "Act Number": "Published vide Notification Gazette of India, Part-3, Section 4, No. 20, dated 16-5-1998.",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1997",
        "Short Title": "The University Grants Commission (Regulation of Admission and Fees in Private Non-Aided Professional Institutions) Regulations, 1997",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Andhra Pradesh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}