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Unit 14: Promoters of Library and Information Services

made in the past. Then UGC formulates its proposals for the plan period, which includes plan Notes
programmes of universities and presents them to government. These proposals are then finalised
after detailed discussions between UGC and government. Then they go before the Planning
Commission for final allocation. After indicating the provisional allocation of funds of each of the
central university, UGC calls for detailed proposals. The plans are scrutinised by expert committees
at the head quarters after holding discussions with universities.

Pattern
The development grants have comparatively less recurring items of expenditure than non-plan
grants. As on 1991-92 the annual plan grants of central universities represent approximately 30% of
the total maintenance grants to the universities.
Funding for Colleges affiliated to Delhi and Banaras Hindu University
Earlier Delhi Colleges used to get grant directly from Central Government but later came under
UGC’s support. The Delhi Colleges broadly fall into three categories:
• Colleges established by Educational or Charitable Trusts.
• Colleges maintained by Delhi Administration, which acts as trust for them.
• Colleges maintained by Delhi University.
The colleges maintained by university get 100% deficit maintenance grant while the day colleges
run by trusts get 95% deficit grants. Besides maintenance grants, Delhi Colleges also get plan or
development grants. Delhi University is an affiliating university so all the grant goes to its colleges
and nothing as such goes to the University as in the case of central universities. UGC gives funds to
54 colleges of Delhi University. There are four colleges affiliated to Banaras Hindu University and
UGC provides development and maintenance grants for these colleges.

14.6.12 Funding for Institutions Deemed to be Universities

Section 3 of the UGC Act provides that the Central Government may on the advice of the Commission,
by notification in the official Gazette, declare any institution for higher education other than a
university, which is doing very higher standards in a specific, as an Institution Deemed to be
University. Such a declaration entitles the institution of all support as provided for in the UGC Act.
The institution also has the power to confer degrees and develop and innovate academic programmes
on its own. Such institutions enjoy the academic status and privileges of a university and are able to
strengthen their activities in the field of their specialisation, rather than becoming a multi-faculty
university of a general type. These institutions are not patterned on the conventional university
system; in spite, they achieve recognition through excellence in their academic pursuits and
innovative practices. These institutions need large measure of academic autonomy and functional
freedom.
Uniqueness
All these institutions differ from one another considerably. Uniqueness is their source of strength
and their very status is designed to protect this. However, UGC insists upon a corpus of academic
staff with high qualifications and a minimum level of teaching, research and extension programmes
to qualify for availing the status. Subject to these basic features, each institution develops its own
programmes and activities.
Procedure
UGC has given guidelines for the establishment for institutions deemed to be universities. When an
institution feels it is fulfilling the criterion for deemed to be university, then it applies for its
recognition to the Ministry of HRD and then the Ministry consults UGC. After that UGC sets up a

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