By A Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, March 7 The State Government today introduced the Assam Private
Universities Bill, 2007 in the Assembly to provide for establishment and
incorporation of private universities in the State for imparting higher
education and to regulate the functions related to it. Education Minister Ripun
Bora introduced the Bill.
The universities established under the provisions of this legislation will have
to be self-financed and shall not be entitled to any grant or other financial
assistance from the State Government.
The Bill has proposed that for establishing a university in the private sector,
an application containing the proposal and the project report on the proposed
university should be made by the sponsoring body to the State Government, along
with such fee as may be prescribed.
The project report must contain the details of the sponsoring body along with
the copies of its registration certificate, constitution and byelaws, the
information regarding financial resources of the sponsoring body along with
audited accounts for the past five years.
The Bill has also proposed to make it mandatory for the sponsoring body to
state the name, location and headquarters of the proposed university, the
objectives of the university, the availability of land and details of the
existing buildings and infrastructure facilities. If such infrastructures do
not exist, the sponsoring party is to provide the details of land, building and
other infrastructure proposed to be owned or created as required under the
provisions of the Bill.
The application should also contain the details of the available academic
facilities, including the teaching and non-teaching staff, if any. It should
also contain the details of the plans for campus development such as
construction of buildings, development of structural amenities and
infrastructure facilities and procurement of equipment etc to be undertaken
before the university starts functioning and phased programme for first five
years.
The sponsoring party should also disclose the phased outlays of capital
expenditure proposed for the next five years and its sources of finance.
The nature and type of programmes of study and research proposed to be
undertaken by the university and their relevance to the development goals and
employment needs of the State, plans for their over the first five years and
course-wise enrolment targets, among others, should also be made known by the
sponsors.
The information on the proposed fee structure of such universities and the
extent of concessions or rebates in fee or free-ships and scholarships to
handicapped and poor students or students from socially backward families
should also be supplied with the application. The Bill has also put forward
that the sponsoring party should inform the Government the arrangements
proposed for academic auditing.
After receiving the proposal and the project report for establishment of a
university, the State Government shall constitute a committee consisting of
such members as may be specified by it to examine these documents. Of the
committee members, at least one should be an expert, said the Bill.
The Assam Tribune,08.03.2007
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