Preamble

Extra No. 16 © The Gujarat Government Gazette EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

Vol. LXIV ] MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2023 / ASVINA 3, 1945

Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a Separate Compilation.

PART IV

Acts of Gujarat Legislature and Ordinances promulgated and Regulations made by the Governor.

The following Act of the Gujarat Legislature, having been assented to by the Governor on the 25 th September, 2023 is hereby published for general information. K. M. LALA, Secretary to the Government of Gujarat, Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Department.

GUJARAT ACT NO. 15 OF 2023.

(First published, after having received the assent of the Governor, in the "Gujarat Government Gazette", on the 25 th September, 2023). AN ACT

to unify law relating to the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, the Gujarat University, the Sardar Patel University, the Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, the Saurashtra University, the Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, the Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University, the Krantiguru Shyamji Krishna Verma Kachchh University, the Bhakta Kavi Narsinh Mehta University and the Shri Govind Guru University in the State of Gujarat. WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for a uniform pattern for the constitution, academic autonomy and administration of non-agricultural, non- medical and non-sectorial Universities in the State of Gujarat and to make better provisions thereof; Ex. IV-16 16-1

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AND WHEREAS the Government of Gujarat with a view to considering and recommending on different aspects of higher education and learning and to suggest various measures to ensure such quality education; AND WHEREAS after considering the recommendations, it is expedient to

make a law to provide for better governance of such universities, better academic

standards, enhancement of quality education for academic autonomy and excellence, adequate representation through democratic process, transformation, strengthening and regulating higher education and to regulate the non-agricultural, non-medical and non-sectorial universities in the State of Gujarat in more effective manner, to provide for participation of universities in social and educational spheres; to constitute various Boards and Committees and to repeal the Acts of the

Universities of the State of Gujarat to implement into entirety the above mandate

contained in the decision of the Apex Court in (2002) 8 SCC 481 and certain other judgments; It is hereby enacted in the Seventy-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-