UGC Guidelines on Terms and Conditions of Affiliation of Colleges by a University

Abstract

From Preamble: Section 12 of the University Grants Commission Act 1956 lays down that ‘It shall be the general duty of the Commission to take, in consultation with the universities or other bodies concerned, all such steps as it may think fit for the promotion and coordination of university education and for the determination and maintenance of standards of teaching, examination and research in universities’. Accordingly, the UGC is conscious of the fact that the standards of university education in India will largely depend upon the colleges in view of the fact that 85% of undergraduates and about 55% of postgraduate students are enrolled in the colleges; as much as 14-15% of the research students are in the colleges.