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Accordingly, it is proposed to establish the Karnataka State Council for Higher Education as an autonomous authority. Hence the Bill. [L.A.Bill No.28 of 2010, File No.Samvyashae 20 Shasana 2010] [Entry 25 of List III of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India.] II Amending Act 42 of 2017.-It is considered necessary to amend the Karnataka State Higher Education Council Act, 2010 to,- (i) remove overlapping of certain provisions thereof relating to the meetings of the Council and Executive Committee; and (ii) expunge ambiguity in some provisions pertaining to appointment of the Vice-Chairman and Executive Director and their salaries and allowances. Hence the Bill. [L.A. Bill No.27 of 2017, File No. Samvyashae 02 Shasana 2017] [entry 25 of List III of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India.] - - - - 4 KARNATAKA ACT 26 OF 2010 (First published in the Karnataka Gazette Extraordinary on the Twenty sixth day of July, 2010) THE KARNATAKA STATE HIGHER EDUCATION COUNCIL ACT, 2010 (Received the assent of the Governor on the Twenty third day of July, 2010) (As amended by Karnataka Act 42 of 2017) An Act to provide for the constitution of the Karnataka State Higher Education Council. Whereas the National Education Policy, 1986 and the Task Force on Higher Education set up by the State Government in 2002 recommended that State level planning and co-ordination of higher education shall be done through Council for Higher Education; Whereas it is expedient to establish a State Higher Education Council as a collective of the Government, Universities, academics and experts in order to forge a synergic relationship among them by occupying an operational space in between the Government and Universities and between Universities and apex level regulatory bodies, with the objects of (i) promoting academic excellence and social justice by the Government in policy formulation and perspective planning, (ii) ensuring the autonomy, accountability and co-ordination among all institutions of higher education in the State, and (iii) guiding the harmonious growth of higher education in accordance with the socio- economic requirements of the State; BE it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the Sixty first year of the Republic of India, as follows:- CHAPTER - I PRELIMINARY