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Power to remove difficulties THE ANDHRA PRADESH STATE COUNCIL OF HIGHER EDUCATION ACT, 1988 ACT No. 16 OF 1988 [21st April, 1988] AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTITUTION OF A STATE COUNCIL TO ADVISE THE GOVERNMENT IN MATTERS RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE STATE AND TO OVERSEE ITS DEVELOPMENT WITH PERSPECTIVE PLANNING AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH AND INCIDENTAL THERETO. Whereas the National Educational Policy, 1986 recommended that State Level Planning and Co-ordination of Higher Education shall be done through Councils of Higher Education and that the University Grants Commission and these councils will develop co-ordinative methods to keep a watch on standards; And whereas the University Grants Commission constituted a committee to make recommendations regarding setting up of State Councils of Higher Education as per the aforesaid National Policy; And whereas the said committee recommended that there is a pressing need for an effective machinery for promotion and co-ordination of Higher Education at the State Level and Co-ordination of State level programmes with those of the University Grants Commission; And whereas the University Grants Commission had laid down the guidelines for setting up of State Councils of Higher Education as recommended by the said Committee; And whereas the State Government has accordingly decided to fill the gap by constituting a State Council of Higher Education as recommended in the National Educational Policy of the Government of India and as recommended by the Committee constituted by the University Grants Commission. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Andhra Pradesh in the Thirty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-