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Notes concerned, it comes under grants for development so UGC gives grants for it. However, for the
regional problems, the university is facing, UGC is not concerned as it is only for providing grants.
There are other instances when there are complaints about the checking of the answer sheets. But
not all these are the concerns of UGC.
The content has been taken from “Report of the UGC Committee towards new educational
management”.

14.6.15 Nature of Assistance for Tenth Plan Period

The UGC has decided that general development assistance to the individual university would be
available during the tenth plan on the basis of the outlays determined and communicated to the
universities. Under development assistance, for the two-third of the outlays, UGC will assist each
eligible university for both teaching and non-teaching staff, equipments, books and journals, campus
development, health centre, student amenities, jubilee grants and others. During other plan periods
the UGC assistance was for various building projects was on the sharing basis except for girls hostel
and library buildings where it was 100%. But UGC found that these projects were not complete on
the time due to lack of fund on part of university, hence under tenth plan development schemes, the
Commission has decided to provide 100% assistance on all types of building projects.
In order to provide grants to universities when required, it has been decided to simplify the existing
procedure of releasing grants. After the proposal of the University is finalised the first instalment of
20% of allocation may be released for books, journals, and equipments. The second and subsequent
instalments of grants will be released on receipt of progress report, statement of expenditure/
utilisation certificate, completion certificate, statement of income and expenditure of previous grants.
A mid-term review committee, consisting of two or three members, may be sent to all the universities
in the year 2004-05, to evaluate the performance.

14.6.16 Suggestions

1. The grants given by UGC should be more performance based. There should be some threat for
universities to perform. There is a provision in UGC Act that if a university is not following the
recommendations of the UGC then it can cut grants of the University but generally, UGC is very
lenient and does not stop grants of the universities. But to make universities perform, UGC should
exercise this power sometime so that universities do not take this power of the UGC for granted.
2. There should be some relation between results of the review committees and the grants to the
universities. Grants given to them should be based on what committee has recommended and it
should not be mere formality to send committee. If the committee suggests that institution is not
following the rules and norms then UGC should take steps in that regard.
3. Fors more transparency in the system, there could be a third party as the review committee to
lessen the political influence in the functioning because sometime people do not trust government
committees.
4. The fee structure of the universities should be changed as it has not been changed for years. The
fees constitute nothing when looked at the expenditure side. Like there were few instances of fees
increase on part of state universities of Punjab and Guwahati Universities in last month. Fee has
been increased from around ` 50 in Punjab, so such steps should be taken. Sometimes on few fee
counters fee is ` two or ` five for filling a form like form for taking provisional certificate or taking
transfer certificates. So, these kind of fees could be increased logically as even students would not
mind paying ` 10 because value of a rupee has decreased in last 50 years and today people might
not have two rupees coin but they keep ten rupees note.

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