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UVCE is offering several undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes in several branches of engineering. Thousands of students have passed out from this prestigious institution and have occupied key positions in academia, industry, services, research and Government. Government of Karnataka thought it fit to upgrade the institution in the present-day competitive environment to keep pace with the stakeholder expectations and to maintain its top position among engineering colleges in the country. In this respect, the Government had constituted a Committee under the Chairmanship of the Sri S. V. Ranganath, IAS (Rtd.), Vice Chairman, Karnataka State Higher Education Council, Bengaluru. The Committee in its report has recommended for converting UVCE into an autonomous “IIT like” institution on the lines of College of Engineering Pune (CoEP). Hence this Bill to model UVCE on the lines of Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Management and other Institutions of National Importance; It is expedient to declare and constitute the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bengaluru, as the University of Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bengaluru to grant autonomy with a view to empower the Institution to attain standards of global excellence in engineering and allied areas of knowledge and to provide for certain matters connected therewith, or incidental thereto; Be it enacted by Karnataka State Legislature in the seventy-second year of the Republic of India as follows:- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY