UGC Act: Section 12: Part 2
The UGC can advise universities under Section 12(j) to take necessary steps for improving university education and recommend actions for implementing such advice.
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13. UGC Act: Section 12: Part 1
The words “all such steps” are of wide import. The steps referred to in Section 12 may include issuance of guidelines, directions, circulars etc. Hence the Guidelines issued in exercise of statutory powers, thus, cannot be said to be non-statutory.
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12. UGC Act: Section 11
The Central Information Commission (CIC) has frequently pulled up statutory bodies for not pro-actively disclosing authenticated orders on their websites, arguing that Section 11 authentication should be the start of the communication process, not the end.
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11. UGC Act: Section 10
The UGC’s lack of professional, independent administrative staff, in influence of the slow-moving Government Rule machinery has hindered its ability to regulate a 21st-century education market.
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10. UGC Act: Section 9
An associated person might be a professor from a private university giving advice on regulations that affect their own institution.
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9. UGC Act: Section 8
But the Act is silent on vacancy of Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the Commission. In absence of these two leadership posts who will be authorized to sign on behalf of them?
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8. UGC Act: Section 7
The Court suggested that transaction of business cannot be used to pass exclusionary definitions, such as the restrictive definition of caste discrimination, without transparent and inclusive deliberation as intended by the spirit of the Act.
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7. UGC Act: Section 6
The Act does not define inability or incapacity. This ambiguity allows the Central Government to potentially remove a Chairman or Vice-Chairman by declaring them unable to function without a formal inquiry or clear medical/legal standards.
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6. UGC Act: Section 5
Why there is no representation for faculties of arts, commerce and other subjects of humanities? And even though there is representation of reputed professional fields, why there is still outdated syllabus?
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5. UGC Act: Section 4
Although all these roles are specifically mentioned in statute and it is evident that these are all the primary requirements, UGC is always been criticized and held responsible for low standards of higher education in India.