No: 2 Dated: Apr, 02 2002

Chhattisgarh Niji Kshetra Vishwavidyalaya (Sthapana Aur Viniyaman) Adhiniyam, 2001

(Chhattisgarh Act No. 2 of 2001)

    A Vidheyak to provide for establishment of self financed Private Universities for imparting Higher Education and to regulate their functions and for matters connected there with or incidental thereto.

    An Act it enacted by the Chhattisgarh legislature in the Fifty-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:

1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Adhiniyam may be called the Chhattisgarh Niji Kshetra Vishwavidyalaya (Sthapana Aur Viniyaman) Adhiniyam, 2001 (No. 2 of 2001).

(2) It extends to the whole of Chhattisgarh.

(3) It shall come into force on such a date as the State Government may, by notification, appoint.

2. Definitions. - In this Adhiniyam, unless the context otherwise requires -

(a) "Ordinance" means an Ordinance of the University;

(b) "Sponsoring Body" in relation to a University means-

(i) a society registered under the Madhya Pradesh Societies Registrikarau Adhiniyam, 1973 (No. 44 of 1973);

(ii) any Public Trust; or

(iii) a Company registered under Section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956 (No. 1 of 1956);

(c) "Statute" means a Statute of the University;

(d) "University" means a University established under sub-section (1) of Section 5.

3. Objects of the University. - The objects of the University shall be -

(1) to provide instructions, teaching and training in Higher Education and make provisions for research, advancement and dissemination of knowledge;

(2) to create higher levels of intellectual abilities;

(3) to establish state of the art facilities for education and training;

(4) to carry out teaching and research and offer continuing education programmes;

(5) to create centres of excellence for research and development and for sharing knowledge and its application;

(6) to provide consultancy to the industry and public organizations;

(7) to establish main campus in Chhattisgarh and to have study centres at different places in India and other countries;

(8) to establish examination centres;

(9) to institute degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions on the basis of examination, or any other method of evaluation;

(10) to pursue any other objective as may be approved by the State Government.

(11) to ensure that the standard of the degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions are not lower than those laid down by AJCTE/NCTEAJGC/MCI and Pharmacy Council etc.

4. Proposal for establishment of the University. - (1) An application containing the Project Report to establish. A University for carrying out any or all of the objects enumerated in section 3 of this Adhiniyam shall be made to the State Government by the Sponsoring Body along with such fee as may be prescribed.

(2) The Project Report shall contain the following particulars, namely -

(a) the objects of the University along with the details of the Sponsoring Body;

(b) the extent and the status of the University and the availability of land;

(c) the nature and the type of programmes of study and research to be undertaken in the University during a period not less than the next five years.

(d) the nature of faculties, courses of study and research proposed to be started;

(e) the campus development such as building, equipment and structural amenities;

(f) the phased outlays of capital expenditure for a period not less than the next five years;

(g) the item-wise recurring expenditure, sources of finance and estimated expenditure for each student;

(h) the scheme for mobilizing resources and the cost of capital thereto and the manner of repayments to the Sponsoring Body and other sources;

(i) the scheme for the generation of funds internally through the recovery of fee from students, revenues anticipated from consultancy and other activities relating to the objects of the University, and other anticipated incomes;

(j) the details of expenditure on unit cost and the extent of concessions or rebates in fee or freeship and scholarship for students belonging to the Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes, belonging to economically weaker sections, in lieu of land giants if any, from the State Government, subject to the condition that the number of students getting concessions and freeships or scholarships shall not be less than twenty two and one half percent of the total number of seats. The proposed fee structure shall also indicate the rationale for the varying rates of fee that would be levied on non resident Indians and students of other nationalities;

(k) the years of experience and expertise in the concerned disciplines at the command of the Sponsoring Body as well as the financial resources.

(l) the system to select students for admission to the courses of study at the University;

(m) such other details as may be prescribed by rules framed under this Adhiniyam.

(3) The State Government, on receipt of the Project Report shall make such enquiry as it may deem necessary within forty five days from the date of submission of the Project Report.

(4) If the State Government is satisfied with the proposal to establish the University, it may, subject to such conditions as may be specified, accord the sanction for the same.

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