Chapter IV AFFILIATION, RECOGNITION AND APPROVAL

1. (1) A college or institution applying for affiliation to the University shall submit an application to the Registrar one year prior to the proposed date of starting the college or institution: Provided that on the recommendation of the Vice- Chancellor, the Board of Governors may, if it is satisfied that there are special reasons to do so, after recording such reasons, entertain an application for affiliation not submitted to the Registrar within the aforesaid period.
2. (2) Any college or Institution applying for affiliation shall apply in such form, along with such fees and details, in such manner and shall fulfil such norms and criteria as may be prescribed before applying for affiliation.
3. (3) On receipt of an application made under sub-section (1), the Board of Governors shall, in consultation with the Academic Council and after giving to the college or the institution an opportunity of stating its case, determine whether the college shall supply a need in the locality, having regard to the type of education intended to be provided by the college or the institution, the existing provision for the same type of education made by other college or the institution in the neighborhood and the suitability of the locality where the college or institution is to be established and comply with the provisions of this Act and the regulations, record its opinion as to whether the application should be granted or refused either in whole or in part and communicate the decision to the college or institution.
4. (4) When an application for affiliation or any part thereof is granted, the order of the Board of Governors shall specify the courses of the instruction in respect of which the college or institution is affiliated and where the application or any part thereof is refused, the grounds of such refusal shall be recorded and shall be communicated to such college or institution.
5. (5) Any college or institution aggrieved by the decision of the Board of Governors as referred to in sub-section (4), may prefer an appeal to the State Government within thirty days from the date of communication of such decision and the decision of the State Government on such appeal shall be final.
6. (6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, such affiliation shall be subject to the previous approval of the concerned National Statutory Council and subject to strictly follow the norms as prescribed by such Council.

When affiliated college or institution desires to add to the courses of instruction in respect of which it is affiliated, the procedure prescribed under section 30 shall as far as possible be followed.

1. (1) Every affiliated college and institution shall furnish such reports, returns and other information as the Board of Governors, after consulting the Academic Council, may require in order to judge the efficiency of such college or institution.
2. (2) The Board of Governors shall cause every such college or institution to be inspected from time to time by the Inspection Committee as constituted by the Vice-Chancellor.
3. (3) It shall be the duty of the Inspection Committee on the direction of the Board of Governors in this behalf, to inspect an affiliated college or institution and make a report to the Board of Governors.
4. (4) The Board of Governors may call upon the college or institution so inspected, take, within a specified period, such action as may appear to it to be needed in respect of any of the matters referred to in section 30.

1. (1) The rights conferred on a college by affiliation may be withdrawn in whole or in part or modified if the college or institution has failed to carry out any of the provisions of section 30 or the regulations or has failed to observe any of the conditions of the affiliation and the norms fixed by the concerned National Statutory Council or the college or institution is conducted in a manner which is prejudicial to the interests of education. Such motion can be initiated only in the Board of Governors. The member of the Board of Governors who intends to move such a motion shall give notice of it and shall state in writing the grounds on which it is made.
2. (2) Before taking such motion into consideration, the Board of Governors shall send a copy of the notice and written statement referred to in sub-section (1), to the Principal or, as the case may be, the Head of the college/institution concerned, together with intimation that a representation in writing submitted within a period specified in such intimation on behalf of the college institution shall be considered: Provided that the period so specified may, if needed, be extended by the Board of Governors.
3. (3) On receipt of the representation or on expiry of the period referred to in sub-section (2), the Board of Governors after considering the notice of motion, statement and representation, and after such inspection, by the competent person or persons authorised by the Board of Governors in this behalf, and such further inquiry as may appear to it to be necessary by a resolution on the grounds stated therein, withdraw in whole or in part, or modify, the rights conferred by the affiliation and shall communicate to the concerned college or the institution: Provided that where the views of the Academic Council with regard to the withdrawal or modification of the right conferred by the institution affiliated college are not acceptable to the Board of Governors, it shall, before passing such resolution, refer the matter again to the Academic Council with its comments and the Academic Council shall communicate again its views in the matter to the Board of Governors.

Any college or institution aggrieved by the resolution withdrawing wholly or partly or modifying the rights conferred by affiliation passed under sub-section

1. (3) of section 30, may prefer an appeal to the State Government within thirty days from the date of communication of the resolution and the decision of the State Government on such appeal shall be final.

The Board of Governors may, on the recommendation of the Academic Council and Council of Post-Graduate Studies and Research, recommend to the State Government withholding or reduction of grant to an affiliated college or institution which on a report by the Inspection Committee or otherwise, is found to be making persistent default in carrying out the conditions of affiliation.