The KERALA PROFESSIONAL COLLEGES OR INSTITUTIONS (PROHIBITION OF CAPITATION FEE, REGULATION OF ADMISSION, FIXATION OF NON-EXPLOITATIVE FEE AND OTHER MEASURES TO ENSURE EQUITY AND EXCELLENCE IN PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION) ACT, 2006
kerala · 2006
- S. 1Short title and commencement
- S. 2Definitions
- S. 3Method of admission in Professional Colleges or Institutions
- S. 4Admission Supervisory Committee
- S. 5Section 5 prohibits the collection of capitation fees in unaided professional colleges and empowers the Admission Supervisory Committee to recommend penal actions for violations.
- S. 6Fee Regulatory Committee
- S. 7Factors for determination of fee
- S. 8Determining factors for according recognition and conferring status as un-aided minority professional college or instit
- S. 9Fees not to be collected excessively
- S. 10Allotment of seats
- S. 11Section 11 invalidates any admission made against the Act's provisions or its rules.
- S. 12Higher Education Scholarship Fund
- S. 13Section 13 protects officials acting in good faith under the Act from legal action.
- S. 14The Government can issue necessary directions to professional colleges and its officers to enforce the Act.
- S. 15Section 15 imposes imprisonment up to three years and a fine of at least rupees fifty lakhs for violating the Act.
- S. 16Cognizance of offence
- S. 17The section grants the government power to issue orders to resolve implementation issues of the Act, which must be presented to the Legislative Assembly.
- S. 18Special provisions for admissions and fixation of fee for the academic year 2006-07
- S. 19Section 19 empowers the government to create rules for implementing the Act and requires legislative assembly review.
- S. 20Repeals the 2004 act regulating self-financing professional colleges in Kerala.