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Unit 14: Promoters of Library and Information Services

in consultation with universities or other bodies concerned. For this, UGC may inquire into the Notes
financial needs of universities, allocate grants from its Fund to universities for their maintenance,
development and other general and specified purposes. UGC may recommend to any university
for necessary improvement in education and advise the action to be taken for implementing such
recommendation. It can also advise the Central or any State Government regarding grants to
universities or any other issue.

14.6.6 Regulation of Fees and Prohibition of Donations in certain cases

If the UGC is satisfied that it is necessary so to do in the public interest, after consultation with the
related University, it may specify by regulation the matters in respect of which fees may be charged,
and the scale of fees according to which fees shall be charged. According to this regulation, no
college can charge fees in respect of any other matter other than specified in such regulations and in
excess of the scale of fees specified here. No college can accept any payment or gift, other than fee,
either directly or indirectly.

14.6.7 Inspection

The UGC may cause an inspection of any department of a university for ascertaining the financial
needs, standard of teaching, examination and research, after consultation with the university. The
UGC shall tell the University the date of inspection and shall communicate its results of inspection.
The University is entitled to be associated with the inspection. The UGC may recommend the action
to be taken to the University.
Consequences of failure on part of universities
If any university fails within a reasonable time to comply with any recommendations made by
UGC, then the UGC after taking into consideration the cause if any shown by the University, may
withhold from the University the grants proposed to be made out of the fund. But actually, the
UGC is very lenient so it does not stop the rants to universities.
Right to confer degrees
The right of conferring or granting degrees shall be exercised only by a University established or
incorporated by or under a Central Act, a Provincial Act or a State Act or an institution deemed to
be a University under section 3 or an institution specially empowered by an Act of Parliament to
confer or grant, any degrees.
Fitness for Grant
In exercise of the powers of Section 12-B of the Act, the Central Government has made few rules.
These rules are called UGC (fitness of certain universities for Grants) Rules, 1974. These rules should
apply to every university established after the commencement of the UGC (Amendment) Act, 1972,
other than, an agricultural university, a university established against the advise of the Commission
for imparting, exclusively, technological or medical education and an institution recognised by the
UGC, under section 2(f) of the Act, on or after the Amendment Act, 1972 came into force.
Those universities whom these rules apply shall not be declared to be fit to receive grants from the
Central Government or the UGC unless the UGC is satisfied that the University is established under
the Central Act. In case of other university its establishment is justified if it has or shall have special
features for augmenting the existing academic resources, apart from affiliating university, it is
multifaculty having adequate services like, qualified teaching staff, good library and equipped
laboratory, health centre and other such facilities. The university has powers to provide instruction
through correspondence courses and to declare a college, department, centre or campus as an
autonomous college, department, centre or campus respectively. Every teaching department, centre,
discipline in the University has a provision for a minimum staff of one professor, two Readers and
an adequate number of lecturers alongwith the necessary supporting staff.

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