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Unit 14: Promoters of Library and Information Services

Sector-7 Strengthening of UGC Administration (Establishment) 1% Notes
Sector-8 Programme to Strengthen Scientific Research (SACC) 6%
Sector-9: Engineering and Technology 6%
The development objectives of tenth plan are:
• The relevance of higher education
• Quality, evaluation and accreditation
• Research and development
• Outreach activities in business and the community and lifelong learning
• The knowledge and use of the new information and communication technologies
• Management and financing
• Export of higher education, and reorientation of international co-operation

Kind of Grants Available
There are two kinds of grants for universities, institutions deemed to be universities and colleges,
they are:
• Development (Plan) Grants
• Maintenance (Non-Plan) Grants
Central universities and colleges affiliated to them and institutions deemed to be university receive
both the plan and non-plan grants. However, the state universities and their affiliated colleges receive
only plan grants.
The objective of providing Plan assistance is not only to improve the infrastructure and basic facilities
in the universities so as to achieve at least the threshold level but also to develop excellence in those
who are already ahead. These are not intended to supplement the requirements under maintenance
grant.
The UGC provides Non-Plan assistance to universities to meet the recurring expenditure on salaries
of non-teaching and teaching staff and for maintenance of laboratories, libraries, buildings, as also
for obligatory payments such as taxes, telephone bills, electricity and other purposes. Development
assistance is utilised for consolidation of existing infrastructure and for modernising teaching,
research and administration and to meet the changing demands of the society.

14.6.11 Funding for Central Universities

There is difference in the funding pattern of central universities, institutions deemed to be universities
and colleges of state universities. We can look at the pattern of them separately. The whole funding
is divided into two heads, i.e., Maintenance and Development Grants.

Maintenance Grant
The exact amount of maintenance grant payable to central universities and institutions deemed to
be universities is determined on “covering of deficit” basis, i.e., the internal receipt is deducted out
of the actual expenditure incurred in any year. No institution can build up any reserve out of the
maintenance grant paid to it. This grant increases incrementally for each institution every year,
with the size of increment varying from institution to institution.

Nature and structure of Maintenance Grants
In earlier stages, only basic infrastructural expenditures of universities were included in this head
but with the development of universities’ academic, research and other programmes, many other

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