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Power to Remove Difficulties STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS ACT 09 OF 2022 The University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bengaluru is a premier Engineering institution in India established in the year 1917 By Bharat Ratna, Sir M. Visvesvaraya. It has been a constituent college of Bangalore University from the year 1964. UVCE is offering several undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes in several branches of engineering. Thousand of students have passed out from this prestigious institution and have occupied key positions in academia, industry, service, 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 Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Management and other Institutions of National Importance; Therefore, it is considered necessary 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. Hence the Bill. [L.A. Bill No. 46 of 2021, File No. SAMVYASHAE 48 SHASANA 2021] [Entry 25 of List III of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India..] [Published in Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary No. 91 in part-IVA dated: 28.02.2022] KARNATAKA ACT NO. 09 OF 2022 (First Published in the Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary on the 28th day of February 2022) THE UNIVERSITY OF VISVESVARAYA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING ACT, 2021 (Received the assent of the Governor on the 21st day of February 2022) An Act to declare and constitute the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bengaluru, as the University of Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bengaluru; Whereas, the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bengaluru is a premier Engineering institution in India established in the year 1917 by Bharat Ratna, Sir M. Visvesvaraya. It has been a constituent college of Bangalore University from the year