[Assam] Pvt varsity Bill tabled in House (The Assam Tribune, 08.03.2007)

[Buljit Buragohain]

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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