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NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 11th October, 2017 University Grants Commission (Open and Distance Learning) Regulations, 2017 (First Amendment) F.No. 2-4/2015 (DEB-III).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section 1 of section 26 read with clause

(j) of section 12 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956), the University Grants Commission hereby makes the following regulations to amend the University Grants Commission (Open and Distance Learning) Regulations, 2017, namely:—

1. Short title, Application and Commencement:

1.1 These regulations may be called the University Grants Commission (Open and Distance Learning) Regulations, 2017 (First Amendment)

1.2 These shall come into the force on the date of their publication in the official Gazette.

2. In the University Grants Commission (Open and Distance Learning) Regulations, 2017, in regulation 19, for sub-regulation (2), the following sub-regulation shall be substituted namely:— “(2) Certificates or Diplomas or Post Graduate Diplomas awarded by the Standalone Institutions which also have been approved by the Commission based on the policies of the then Distance Education Council of the Indira Gandhi National Open University for running Open and Distance Learning programmes till the academic year 2016-17 shall remain valid programmes in the field of Open and Distance Learning mode of education till the academic session 2017-18 and thereafter they shall be free to get converted their Standalone Institution status to University or Deemed to be University for the purpose of these Open and Distance Learning regulations, failing which, the Commission shall not accord any approval to the Open and Distance Learning programmes of Standalone Institutions.” P.K. THAKUR, Secy. (UGC) [ADVT.- III/4/Exty./262/17]

Note : The principal regulations were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary Part-III, Section 4, dated 23rd June, 2017 vide F. No. 2-4/2015 (DEB-III).

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