The AFRC Act 2007

1. (1) This Act may be called the Madhya Pradesh Niji Vyavsayik Shikshan Sanstha (Pravesh Ka Viniyaman Avam Shulk Ka Nirdharan) Adhiniyam, 2007.
2. (2) It extends to the whole of Madhya Pradesh.
3. (3) It shall come into force from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

2. This Act applies to,

1. (a) institutions deemed to be universities, or constituent units thereto, imparting professional education, other than those promoted and maintained by the Central or State Government; and
2. (b) the private unaided professional educational institutions affiliated to a university established under the Central or Madhya Pradesh Act.

3. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,

1. (a) "appropriate authority" means a Central or State authority established by the Central or the State Government for laying down norms and conditions for ensuring standards of professional education;
2. (b) "capitation fees" means any amount by whatever name called whether in cash or in kind paid or collected or received directly or indirectly in addition to the fees determined under this Act;
3. (c) "Committee" means the Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee constituted under section 4;
4. (d) "common entrance test" means an entrance test, conducted for determination of merit of the candidates followed by centralized counseling for the purpose of merit based admission to professional colleges or institutions through a single window procedure by the State Government or by any agency authorized by it;
5. (e) "fee" means all fee including tuition fee and development charges;
6. (f) "foreign candidate" means a person holding a foreign passport seeking admission in a deemed university imparting professional education or in a private unaided professional institution in Madhya Pradesh;
7. (g) "management" means any person or body, by whatever name called, managing and controlling the private unaided professional educational institution;
8. (h) "minority" means a minority defined under section 2(f) of the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions Act, 2004 (2 of 2005);
   • (i) "minority institution" means an institution imparting professional education, established and administered by a minority;
9. (j) "non-resident Indian" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause
10. (e) of section 115C of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961);
11. (k) "Other Backward Classes" means the Other Backward Classes of citizens as specified by the State Government vide Notification No. F85-XXV-4-84, dated the 26th December, 1984 as amended from time to time;
12. (l) "private unaided professional educational institution" means a professional educational institution which is not receiving recurring financial aid or grant-in-aid from any State or Central Government and which is not established or maintained by the Central Government, the State Government or any public body;
13. (m) "professional course" means a course of study notified as a professional course by the appropriate authority, such as a degree, diploma or certificate by whatever name called;
14. (n) "professional educational institution" means a college or a school or an institution by whatever name called, imparting professional education, affiliated to a State University, including a private university established or incorporated by an Act of the State Legislature or constituent unit of a deemed to be university under section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956) and approved or recognized by the competent statutory body regulating professional education;
15. (o) "reserved seats" means the seats reserved in favour of persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes as may be notified by the State Government;
16. (p) "sanctioned intake" means and implies the total number of seats sanctioned by an appropriate authority and notified by the State Government for admitting students in each course of study in a professional institution;
17. (q) "Scheduled Castes" means any caste, race or tribe or part of or group within caste, race or tribe specified as Scheduled Castes with respect to the State of Madhya Pradesh under article 341 of the Constitution;
18. (r) "Scheduled Tribes" means any tribe or tribal community or part of, or group within such tribe or tribal community specified as Scheduled Tribes with respect to the State of Madhya Pradesh under article 342 of the Constitution.

1. (1) The State Government shall, by notification in the official Gazette, constitute a Committee to be called the Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee, for the supervision and guidance of the admission process and for the fixation of fee to be charged from candidates seeking admission in a private professional educational institution.
2. (2) The Committee shall be presided by a Chairperson who has been a Vice-Chancellor of a Central University or a State University or an institution deemed to be University or a senior administrative officer not below the rank of Principal Secretary to the State Government or Joint Secretary to the Government of India and shall include four other members having expertise in matters of finance, administration or law, technical education and medical education.
3. (3) The term of the Committee shall be three years from the date of its notification and in case of any vacancy arising earlier, for any reason, the State Government shall fill such vacancy for the remainder of the term.
4. (4) No act or proceedings of the Committee shall be deemed to be invalid by reason merely of any vacancy or any defect in the constitution of the Committee.
5. (5) No person who is associated with a private aided or unaided educational institution shall be eligible for being a member of the Committee.
6. (6) The Chairperson or any member of the Committee shall cease to be so, if he performs any act, which in the opinion of the State Government is unbecoming of Chairperson or a member of the Committee.
7. (7) The Committee may frame its own procedure in accordance with the regulations notified by the State Government in this regard.
8. (8) The Committee may require a private aided or unaided professional educational institution or, a deemed University to furnish, by a prescribed date, information as may be necessary for enabling the Committee to determine the fee that may be charged by the institution in respect of each professional course, and the fee so determined shall be valid for such period as notified by the State Government.
9. (9) The Committee may hear complaints with regards to admission in contravention of the provisions contained herein, collecting of capitation fee or fee in excess of fee determined or profiteering by any institution, and if the Committee after enquiry finds that there has been any violation of the provisions for admission on the part of the unaided professional colleges or institution, it shall make appropriate recommendations for returning any excess amount collected to the person concerned, and also recommend to the Government for imposing a fine upto rupees ten lakhs, and the Government may on receipt of such recommendation, fix the fine and collect the same in the case of each such violation or decide any other course of action as it deem fit and the amount so fixed together with interest thereon shall be recovered as if it is an arrear of land revenue, and the committee may also declare admission made in respect of any or all seats in a particular college or institution to be dehors merit and therefore invalid and communicate the same to the concerned university, and on the receipt of such communication, the University shall debar such candidates from appearing in the examination and cancel the results of examination already appeared for;
10. (10) The Committee may, if satisfied that any unaided professional college or institution has violated any of the provision of this Act and after approval of the State Government, recommend to the University or appropriate authority for withdrawal of the affiliation or recognition of such college or institution or decide any other course of action as it deems fit.
11. (11) The Committee shall have the power to regulate its own procedure in all matters arising out of the discharge of its functions and shall for the purposes of making any enquiry under this Act have all the powers of a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908) while trying a suit in respect of the following matters, namely :,
    • (a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any witness and examining him on oath; [Note: The English version of the 2007 Act in the scanned document terminates on page 794
12. (10) at sub-section 11(a) and does not contain any subsequent page for this Act before moving directly to the 2013 amendment.]

[Note: Both the English and Hindi versions of the 2007 Act in the scanned PDF omit Sections 5 and 6 entirely, jumping directly from Section 4 (on page 794

1. (10) in English and page 794
2. (4) in Hindi) to Section 7 (on page 794
3. (5) in Hindi, with the English pages for Sections 5, 6, 7, and 8 missing altogether from the document).]

In private unaided professional educational institution, admission to sanctioned intake shall be on the basis of the common entrance test in such manner as may be prescribed by the State Government.

Every admission to private unaided professional educational institution shall be made in accordance with the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder and every admission made in contravention thereof shall be void.

In admission to private unaided professional educational institutions, other than the minority educational institutions referred to in clause

1. (1) of Article 30 of the Constitution of India, there shall be reservation at the stage of admission for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes of citizens as may be prescribed by the State Government.

1. (1) Having regard to,
   • (i) the location of the private unaided professional educational institution;
   • (ii) the nature of the professional course;
   • (iii) the cost of land and building;
   • (iv) the available infrastructure, teaching, non-teaching staff and equipments;
   • (v) the expenditure on administration and maintenance;
   • (vi) a reasonable surplus required for growth and development of the professional institution;
   • (vii) any other relevant factor, the Committee shall determine, in the manner prescribed, the fee to be charged by a private unaided professional educational institution.
2. (2) The Committee shall give an opportunity of being heard to the private unaided professional educational institution before fixing the fee: Provided that no such fee shall be fixed by the Committee which may amount to profiteering or commercialisation of education.

1. (1) The State Government shall appoint for not more than three years at a time, an appellate authority, consisting of a person, who has been a judge of the High Court, or a person who has held office not below the rank of the Chief Secretary of a State, before which a person or a professional institution aggrieved by an order of the Committee may file an appeal, within a period of 30 days of passing of such an order.
2. (2) While hearing an appeal the Appellate Authority after calling for the records from the Committee and after giving an opportunity of hearing to both the appellant and the Committee shall decide the appeal and the decision made in the appeal shall be final.

११. इस अधिनियम के उपबंध, तत्समय प्रवृत्त किसी अन्य विधि में या इस अधिनियम से भिन्न किसी विधि के आधार पर प्रभाव रखने वाली किसी लिखत में अंतर्विष्ट उससे असंगत किसी बात के होते हुए भी प्रभावी होंगे.

१२. राज्य सरकार इस अधिनियम के प्रयोजनों को कार्यान्वित करने के लिये अधिसूचना द्वारा नियम बना सकेगी.

१३. (१) राज्य सरकार, राजपत्र में अधिसूचना द्वारा, इस अधिनियम और उसके अधीन बनाये गये नियमों से संगत विनियम बना सकेगी.

(२) विशिष्टतया तथा पूर्वगामी शक्तियों की व्यापकता पर प्रतिकूल प्रभाव डाले बिना, ऐसे विनियमों में निम्नलिखित विषयों में से सभी या किसी विषय के संबंध में उपबंध हो सकेंगे, अर्थात् :-

(क) समिति का गठन एवं कार्य और निबंधन तथा शर्तें;

(ख) व्यावसायिक संस्था में प्रवेश की पात्रता, प्रवेश की रीति और स्थानों का आवंटन जिसमें विदेशी या अनिवासी भारतीय अभ्यर्थियों के लिये स्थानों का आरक्षण सम्मिलित है;

(ग) किसी व्यावसायिक संस्था द्वारा अभ्यर्थियों पर प्रभारित की जाने वाली फीस के निर्धारण की रीति या मानदंड;

(घ) व्यावसायिक शिक्षण संस्था द्वारा अभ्यर्थियों पर प्रभारित की जाने वाली फीस;

(ड) कोई अन्य विषय जो विहित किया जाना है या जो विहित किये जाएं.

१४. इस अधिनियम के अधीन बनाया गया प्रत्येक नियम, इसके बनाये जाने के पश्चात्, यथाशक्य शीघ्र विधान सभा के समक्ष रखा जाएगा.

१५. (१) यदि इस अधिनियम के उपबंधों को प्रभावी करने में कोई कठिनाई उद्भूत हो तो राज्य सरकार इस अधिनियम के उपबंधों से असंगत न होने वाले, राजपत्र में प्रकाशित आदेश द्वारा कठिनाई को दूर कर सकेगी:

परन्तु इस अधिनियम के प्रारम्भ से दो वर्षों की कालावधि की समाप्ति के पश्चात्, ऐसा कोई आदेश नहीं किया जाएगा.

(२) इस धारा के अधीन किया गया प्रत्येक आदेश इसके किये जाने के पश्चात् यथाशक्य शीघ्र विधान सभा के समक्ष रखा जाएगा.

१६. इस अधिनियम के अधीन सद्भावपूर्वक की गई या की जाने के लिये आशयित किसी बात के लिये कोई वाद, अभियोजन या अन्य विधिक कार्यवाही राज्य सरकार या अपील प्राधिकारी अथवा समिति के सभापति (चेयरपर्सन) या सदस्यों के विरुद्ध नहीं होगी.

१७. (१) मध्यप्रदेश निजी व्यावसायिक शिक्षण संस्था (प्रवेश का विनियमन एवं शुल्क का निर्धारण) अध्यादेश, २००७ (क्रमांक ४ सन् २००७) एतद्द्वारा निरसित किया जाता है. (२) उक्त अध्यादेश का निरसन होते हुए भी, उक्त अध्यादेश के अधीन की गई कोई बात या की गई कोई कार्रवाई, इस अधिनियम के तत्स्थानी उपबंध के अधीन की गई बात या की गई कार्रवाई समझी जाएगी.