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Repeal and savings. The Odisha Gazette EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 1673, CUTTACK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2017 / ASWINA 25, 1939 LAW DEPARTMENT NOTIFICATION * The 17th October, 2017 No.11119-I-Legis-27/2017/L.—The following Act of the Odisha Legislative Assembly having been assented to by the Governor on the 17th October , 2017 is hereby published for general information. | ODISHA ACT 12 OF 2017 THE ODISHA STATE HIGHER EDUCATION-COUNCIL ACT, 2017 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STATE COUNCIL FOR HIGHER EDUCATIONIN THE STATE OF ODISHA AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH ANDINCIDENTAL THERETO. WHEREASthe National Policy on Education, 1986 of the Government of India contains recommendations that the State level planning and co-ordination of higher education shall be done through the State Councils for Higher Education; AND WHEREASit is expedient to establish a State Higher Education Council with the objects of (i) providing for the determination, co-ordination, maintenance of standards in, andpromotion of higher education and research, including university education and college education at Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate level in the State,(ii) promoting the autonomy of higher educational institutions for the free pursuit of knowledge and innovation, (iii) facilitating access, inclusion and opportunities to all, and providing comprehensive and holistic growth of higher education and research in a competitive global environment through reforms and renovation and (iv) providing for an advisory mechanism of eminent peers in academia. BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Odisha in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India, as follows:- The Odisha Gazette EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 1673, CUTTACK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2017 / ASWINA 25, 1939 LAW DEPARTMENT NOTIFICATION * The 17th October, 2017 No.11119-I-Legis-27/2017/L.—The following Act of the Odisha Legislative Assembly having been assented to by the Governor on the 17th October , 2017 is hereby published for general information. | ODISHA ACT 12 OF 2017 THE ODISHA STATE HIGHER EDUCATION-COUNCIL ACT, 2017 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STATE COUNCIL FOR HIGHER EDUCATIONIN THE STATE OF ODISHA AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH ANDINCIDENTAL THERETO. WHEREASthe National Policy on Education, 1986 of the Government of India contains recommendations that the State level planning and co-ordination of higher education shall be done through the State Councils for Higher Education; AND WHEREASit is expedient to establish a State Higher Education Council with the objects of (i) providing for the determination, co-ordination, maintenance of standards in, andpromotion of higher education and research, including university education and college education at Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate level in the State,(ii) promoting the autonomy of higher educational institutions for the free pursuit of knowledge and innovation, (iii) facilitating access, inclusion and opportunities to all, and providing comprehensive and holistic growth of higher education and research in a competitive global environment through reforms and renovation and (iv) providing for an advisory mechanism of eminent peers in academia. BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Odisha in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India, as follows:- The Odisha Gazette EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 1673, CUTTACK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2017 / ASWINA 25, 1939 LAW DEPARTMENT NOTIFICATION * The 17th October, 2017 No.11119-I-Legis-27/2017/L.—The following Act of the Odisha Legislative Assembly having been assented to by the Governor on the 17th October , 2017 is hereby published for general information. | ODISHA ACT 12 OF 2017 THE ODISHA STATE HIGHER EDUCATION-COUNCIL ACT, 2017 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STATE COUNCIL FOR HIGHER EDUCATIONIN THE STATE OF ODISHA AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH ANDINCIDENTAL THERETO. WHEREASthe National Policy on Education, 1986 of the Government of India contains recommendations that the State level planning and co-ordination of higher education shall be done through the State Councils for Higher Education; AND WHEREASit is expedient to establish a State Higher Education Council with the objects of (i) providing for the determination, co-ordination, maintenance of standards in, andpromotion of higher education and research, including university education and college education at Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate level in the State,(ii) promoting the autonomy of higher educational institutions for the free pursuit of knowledge and innovation, (iii) facilitating access, inclusion and opportunities to all, and providing comprehensive and holistic growth of higher education and research in a competitive global environment through reforms and renovation and (iv) providing for an advisory mechanism of eminent peers in academia. BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Odisha in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India, as follows:- Short title and commencement Applicability, Definitions. 4 CHAPTER! . PRELIMINARY 1.(1) This Act may be called the Odisha State Higher Education Council Act, 2017 (2) It shall be deemed to have comeinto force on the 11" August, 2017. 2.This Act shall apply to all institutions ‘imparting higher education, the University education, the Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate level education and to all researchInstitutions underthe control of the State Government.