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Notes 2. For remaining 50% grant, the college will submit a proposal to the commission for
approval, indicating their priorities and innovations proposed and specific requirements.

Conferment of Autonomous College
Autonomous status covers only undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in colleges. The parent
university will confer the status of autonomy upon a college, which is permanently affiliated, with
the concurrence of the State Government and the UGC. The autonomy status will be granted initially
for a period of five years. The University will review the functioning of autonomy in the college
periodically with the help of a committee constituted for the purpose. The UGC regional offices are
providing grants to these colleges. At present there are 130 autonomous colleges spread over
29 universities of eight states. At the starting of the ninth five year plan there were 119 colleges
while at the end of the Plan, there were 130 colleges. During ninth plan period ` 20.09 crore were
released by the UGC regional offices.

Powers of the University

The universities in India, whether State or central, enjoy almost similar power structure. Their powers
are defined by and derived from the acts of their incorporation. The affiliating universities have
twin responsibilities of
• Establishing and administering their own campuses of teaching and research (University
Departments);
• Managing and supervising their affiliated colleges/institutes.
The major focus is teaching and research. The powers of teaching include the framing of syllabi,
conduct and evaluation of examinations and declaration of results and the award of degrees. All
the activities incidental to teaching (libraries, laboratories, classes, faculties, hostels etc.) are also
brought under the purview of teaching. The powers of research include the establishment and
maintenance of research laboratories, provision of research fellowships and faculties for carrying
out research leading to research degrees.
The affiliating universities also have power of affiliating colleges to the University under prescribed
conditions and to withdraw affiliation under situation of violation or non-compliance with such
prescribed conditions. For the affiliation, first colleges have to seek the Government approval as a
pre-condition and then approach the University for the grant of affiliation. In spite of the University
having the power to inspect and monitor the infra-structural facilities of the affiliated colleges from
time to time, disaffiliation and de-recognition of a college is hardly restored to even as the last
resort.
Accountability
Universities are creation of legislatures and they are by and large financed from public funds. They
have therefore to be accountable to the concerned legislatures and governments. They have to render
a report, of what they have done during the specified period. Henceforth, the universities have to
send a report, on the expenditure incurred against the allocated budget. The universities are required
to submit Utilisation Certificate mentioning that the fund has been utilised by the university as per
all the terms and conditions.
Inspection by UGC
For the review and evaluation of the universities, the UGC sends review committees to the universities
and deemed universities periodically. UGC sends its committees to the central universities and
deemed universities. For state universities, state governments send review committees because these
governments provide maintenance grants, which constitute a large part of the grants to state
universities.

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