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Notes • The organizational set-up of a university should be as follows:
(a) The Visitor,
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(b) The Chancellor,
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(c) The Vice-Chancellor,
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(d) The Senate (Court),
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(e) The Executive Council; (Syandicate)
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(f) The Academic Council,
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(g) The Faculties,
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(h) The Boards of Studies,
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(i) The Finance Committee,
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(j) The Selection Committee,

• Regarding finance, a University Grant Commission should be set up fpr allocating grants to
the universities. The State should also take the responsibility for the financing of higher
education.
13.5.10 Rural Universities and Colleges
Regarding Rural Universities and Colleges, the Commission said: "the general advancement of
rural India will call for an ever increasing range and quality of skill and training. To supply these
and to meet the requirement of an educated citizenship, a system of rural colleges and universities
necessary". (Report of Radha Krishnan Commission)
• A rural university should include a ring of small, resident under graduate colleges with
specialized and university facilities in the centre.
• The number of students for the undergraduate resident colleges should be not more than
three hundred, and the overall maximum enrolment for colleges and university combined
should be about twenty-five hundred.
• Each college of about three hundred students should have separate teaching staff and facilities.
• In the rural colleges, the general studies should be combined with the practical course, so
that the students become cultured and educated men and women equipped with skill-
oriented.

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