University Grants Commission India

The University Grants Commission (UGC) of India is a approved physique set up by the Indian Union government in 1956, and is answerable with coordination, assurance and aliment of standards of college education. It provides acceptance to universities in India, and disburses funds to such recognised universities and colleges. Prof. Ved Prakash is the bounden Chairman of UGC, India.[1] Its address is in New Delhi, and six bounded centres in Pune, Bhopal, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Guwahati and Bangalore.

History

UGC was formed in 1946 to baby-sit the plan of the three Central Universities of Aligarh, Banaras and, Delhi. In 1947, the Committee was entrusted with the albatross of ambidextrous with all the again absolute Universities. After independence, the University Apprenticeship Commission was set up in 1948 beneath the Chairmanship of S. Radhakrishnan and it recommended that the UGC be reconstituted on the accepted archetypal of the University Grants Commission of the United kingdom.
UGC was formally inaugurated by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the Minister of Education, Natural Resources and Scientific Research on 28 December 1953.
The UGC was however, formally accustomed in November 1956, by an Act of Parliament as a approved physique of the Government of India. In adjustment to ensure able region-wise advantage throughout the country, the UGC has decentralised its operations by ambience up six bounded centres at Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bhopal, Guwahati and Bangalore. The arch appointment of the UGC is amid at Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg in New Delhi, with two added bureaus operating from 35, Feroze Shah Road and the South Campus of University of Delhi as well.UGC Act 1956In 1976, the Union Minister of Apprenticeship fabricated accessible the government of India's affairs to abutting down UGC and the accompanying physique All India Council for Technical Apprenticeship (AICTE), in favour of a college authoritative physique with added across-the-board powers. This goal, proposed by the College Apprenticeship and Research (HE&R) Bill, 2011, intends to alter the UGC with a "National Commission for College Apprenticeship & Research (NCHER)" "for determination, coordination, aliment and connected accessory of standards of college apprenticeship and research". The bill proposes arresting the UGC and added bookish agencies into this new organisation. Those agencies complex in anesthetic and law would be absolved from this alliance "to set minimum standards for medical and acknowledged apprenticeship arch to able practice"The bill has accustomed action from the bounded governments of the Indian states of Bihar, Kerala, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, but has accustomed accepted support.UGC has directed ten institutions to anon shut down their off-campus centres.