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of proposal for establish ment of a University and its evaluation I'ollovving shall be the objects of the university, namely (1) to provide instructions, teaching and training in Higher Education and make provisions for research, advancement and dissemination of knowledge; (2) to create higher levels of intellectual abilities; (3) to establish state of the art facilities for education and training; (4) to carry out teaching and research and offer continuing education programmes; (5) to create centres of excellence for research and development and for sharing knowledge and its application; (6) to establish campus in Assam and to have study centers at different places within its jurisdiction; (7) to establish examination centres; (8) to institute degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions on the basis of examination, or any such other method; (9) to ensure that the standard of degrees, diplomas, certificates and oiher academic distinctions are not lower than those laid down by A1CTE, NCI E, IJGC, MCI, Pharmacy Council, and other similar agency/ agencies established by the Central Government for regulation of education; (10) to open study centers within its jurisdiction; (11) to set up off campus centre within and out of the Stale, subject to the permission of the regulatory bodies under any law made by the Parliament and any regulation, rules etc. made by the regulating bodies; (12) to pursue any other objective as may be approved by the Government. (1) An application containing the proposal and the project report to establish a university in private sector shall be made by the sponsoring body to the State Government, alongwith such fee as may be prescribed. (2) fhe project report must contain the following particulars, namely:- (a) the details of the sponsoring body alongwith the copies of its registration certificate, constitution and bye-laws; (b) the information regarding financial resources of the sponsoring body alongwith audited accounts for the past five years; (c) the name, location and headquarters of the proposed university; (d) lhc objectives of the university; (c)the availability of land and details of buildings and infrastructure facilities, if already exist and details of land, THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY. MAY 8, 2007 building and other infrastructure proposed to be owned or created as required under the provisions of this Act; (f) availability of academic facilities including teaching and non teaching staff, if any, at the disposal of sponsoring body; (g) the details of plans for campus development such as construction of buildings, development of structural amenities and infrastructure facilities and procurement of equipment etc. to be undertaken before the university starts functioning and phased programme for first five years; (h) the phased outlays of capital expenditure proposed for the next five years and its sources of finance; / / (i) the nature and the type of programmes of study and research proposed to be undertaken by the university and their relevance to the development goals and employment needs of the State and phasing of such programmes over the first five years with course-wise enrolment targets; (j) the experience and expertise in the concerned disciplines at (he command of the sponsoring body; (k) the nature of facilities, courses of study and research proposed to be started; (l) the estimated recurring expenditure course-wise or activity wise, sources of finance and estimated expenditure per student; (m) the scheme for mobilizing resources and the cost of capital thereto and the manner 'jf repayment to such sources; (n) the scheme for the generation of funds internally through the recovery of fee from students, revenues anticipated (torn consultancy services and other activities relating to the objects of the university, and other anticipated incomes; (o) the proposed fee structure with reference to the details of expenditure on unit cost and the extent of concessions or rebates in fee or free-ships and scholarships to the poor students lrom economically [Ooor or socially backward families, including Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and handicapped students; (p) the system, proposed to be followed for selecting students for admissio n to the courses of study at the university; (q) the syslem proposed to be followed for appointment of teachers and oilier employees in the university; (r) whether the university is desirous of taking up distance ed ucation programme, if so, details ol study centres proposed to be started; 790 THE ASSAM GAZETIE, EXTRAORDINARY, MAY 8, 2007 (s) whether the university proposes Io undertake some programmes related to local needs. If so, the nature of specialized teaching, training or research activities to be undertaken by the university so as to fulfill this objective; (t) whether the university proposes to start some programmes for the benefit of farmers, women and industries . If so, details thereof may be given; (u) details of play grounds and other facilities available or proposed to be created for games and spoils and extra curricular activities like National Cadet Corps, National Service Scheme, Scouts and Guides etc; (v) thc arrangements proposed to be made for academic auditing; (w) justification regarding the necessity of establishment of the proposed university; (x) commitment to follow the norms of the regulating bodies; (y) such other details as the sponsoring body may like to give; (z) such other details as may be prescribed. (3) Tiie State Governnicnt, on receipt of the proposal and the project report for establishment of a university, shall constitute a committee consisting of such members as may be specified by it, out of whom at least one shall be an expert, to examine the proposal and the project report. Explanation: - In this sub- section the expression “expert” means an academician of prominence in the respective field of higher education. (4) The committee shall consider the proposal and the project report on the following grounds, namely: - (a) financial soundness and assets of the sponsoring body and its ability to set up the infrastructure of the proposed university; (b) back ground of die sponsoring body, that is to say, its expertise and experience in the field of education, its general reputation etc. and its commitment to follow the norms of the regulating bodies; (c) potentiality of the courses proposed to be offered, that is to say, the courses arc able to develop the human resources as per the requirements of contemporary demands, the courses have new features and include emerging branches of learning; (5) The committee, while considering the proposal and the project report under sub- section (4), may call for such other information from the sponsoring body as if thinks proper for the purpose. - J THE a SSz\M GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MAY 8, 2007_______ 79L (6) The committee shall submit its report to the State Government within a period of one month from the date of its constitution: Provided that while ct^^niting the period of one month, the period commencing from the date on which requisition for any information under sub-section (5) is issued and ending on the date on which Issuance of 5. the letter of intent and compliance report requisite information is submitted to the committee shall be excluded. (1) After the receipt of the report of the committee constituted under section 4, if the State Government is satisfied that it is advisable to establish the university, it may issue a letter of intent and ask the sponsoring body to- (i) establish an endowment fund in accordance with the provisions of section 1 I of (his Act; (ii) own a minimum of 20 acres of land outside municipal area or iO acres within municipal area, if not already available; (iii) construct a minimum of 10,000 square meters of covered space for administrative purposes and for conducting academic programmes, if not already available; (iv) purchase books and journals of atlcast rupees 10 lacs or as per the norms of regulating bodies, whichever is higher, and give undertaking to invest within first three years not less than rupees 50 lacs or as per the norms of regulating bodies, HC1 . j’JiW 7l(irnou.oJ• bOiUiJ d i - whichever is higher, on, books, journals, computers, library networking and other facilities so as to make the library facilities adequate for contemporary teaching and research; (v) purchase equipments, computers, furniture, other mobile and immobile assets and infrastructure facilities (other than buildings, referred to in clause (iii) above) worth rupees 20 lacs or as per the norms of regulating bodies, whichever is higher, and give undertaking to procure within the first five years equipments, computers, furniture, other mobile and immobile assets and infrastructure facilities (other than buildings, referred to in clause (iii) above) worth not less than rupees otic crore or as per the norms of regulating bodies, whichever is higher; (vi) give undertaking to appoint at least 1 Professor, 2 Readers and adequate number of Lecturef^Iong with necessary supporting staff in each department -ortgSjh^pline to be started by the university; J 1 .. ■ (vii) give undertaking to take up co-curricular activities like seminars, programmes and extracurricular 792 Establishment g of the University Incorporation 7 of the University University to