section 5
Issuance of the letter of intent and compliance report
The Azim Premji (Assam) University Act, 2025Education202550 sections
Statutory text
- (1) After the receipt of the report of the committee constituted under section 4, if the State Government is satisfied that it is advisable to establish the university, it may issue a letter of intent and ask the sponsoring body to-
- (i) establish an endowment fund in accordance with the provisions of section 11 of this Act;
- (ii) own a minimum of 20 acres of land outside the municipal area or 10 acres within the municipal area, of not already available;
- (iii) construct a minimum of 10,000 square meters of covered space for administrative purposes and for conducting academic programmes, if not already available;
- (iv) purchase books and journals of at least rupees 10 Lakhs or as per the norms of regulating bodies, whichever is higher, and give undertaking to invest within the first three years not less than rupees 50 Lakhs or as per the norms of the regulating bodies, whichever is higher, on books, journals, computers, library networking and other facilities so as to make the library facilities adequate for contemporary teaching and research.
- (v) purchase equipments, computers, furniture, other mobile and immobile assets and infrastructure facilities (other than buildings referred to in clause
- (iii) above) worth rupees 20 Lakhs or as per the norms of the regulating bodies, whichever is higher, and give undertaking to procure within the first five years 'equipments, computers, furniture, other mobile and immobile assets and infrastructure facilities (other than buildings referred to in clause
- (iii) above) worth not less than rupees one crore or as per the norms of the regulating bodies, whichever is higher;
- (vi) give undertaking to appoint at least 1 Professor, 2 Readers and adequate number of Lecturers along with necessary supporting staff in each department of discipline to be started by the university;
- (vii) give undertaking to take up co-curricular activities like seminars, debates, quiz, programmes and extracurricular activities like games, sports, National Service Scheme, National Cadet Corps, Scouts and Guides etc. for the benefit of students as per the normal laid down by the regulating bodies;
- (viii) give undertaking for establishment of provident fund and to take up welfare programmes for the employees of the university; and
- (ix) fulfil such other conditions and provide such other information as may be prescribed by the University Grants Commission, All India Council for Technical Education or any other statutory body established by the law of the Union or State Government.
- (2) The sponsoring body shall fulfil the requirements and conditions specified in sub-section
- (1) and shall report the compliance to the State Government with a maximum period of two year from the date of issue of the letter of intent. On receiving the compliance report, the State Government shall appoint a committee consisting of such members, including the representative of the regulating bodies, as may be specified, to verify the compliance report. The committee shall submit its report to the State Government within one month from the date of its constitution specifying whether the sponsoring body has fulfilled the requirements and conditions laid down in sub-section (1).
- (3) If the sponsoring body has failed to comply with the provisions of sub-section (2), its proposal submitted under section 4 shall stand rejected and the letter of intent issued under sub-section
- (1) shall be deemed to have been withdrawn.
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