Chapter III ESTABLISHMENT AND INCORPORATION OF UNIVERSITY

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6. Establishment and Incorporation of University

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(1) The Government may, after considering the report submitted by the Regulatory Commission as provided under section 7 of the Act, if satisfied that the Sponsoring Body has complied with the provisions of section 5, permit the establishment of a private University, by inclusion of the name, location, constituency and headquarters of the private University and its Sponsoring Body in Part II of the Schedule by amending the Schedule by enacting a law by the State Legislature: Provided that, the Universities specified in Part II of the Schedule on the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been established on that date.
(2) The Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and members of the Governing Body, Board of Management and Academic Council and all other persons who may hereafter become such officers or members, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership, are hereby constituted and declared to be a body corporate by the name specified therefore in the Schedule.
(3) The Universities mentioned in the Schedule shall have perpetual succession and common seal and shall sue and be sued by that name.
(4) In relation to each of the existing University and its Sponsoring Body specified in columns
(2) and (4), respectively, of Part I of the Schedule, the corresponding University with the name, location, constituency and headquarters specified against it in column
(3) of the said Part, is deemed to have been established under this Act, for the objects for which it was constituted immediately before the date of commencement of this Act and the provisions of this Act shall be applicable to such university.
(5) The University shall function as a non-affiliating unitary University established under this Act and it shall not affiliate any other college or institute for the award or conferment of degree, diploma or certificate to the students admitted therein.
(6) Every private University established under this Act shall function exclusively within the territorial jurisdiction of the State of Sikkim, and shall not undertake any academic, administrative or related institutional activity outside the State.
(7) The University shall establish and operate its campus only within the assembly constituency allocated and approved by the State Government at the time of its establishment, and shall not shift or expand beyond such approved location except with prior approval of the State Government.
(8) No private University shall establish or operate any off-campus centre, study centre, constituent unit, satellite campus, online or distance learning
- (ODL) programme, e-learning platform, virtual campus, or any mode of remote academic delivery, except with the prior approval of the University Grants Commission and the State Government, and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.
(9) Every University shall obtain accreditation from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council
- (NAAC) or the National Board of Accreditation
- (NBA) within 5(five) years from its establishment.
(10) Every University shall publish an Internal Quality Assurance Cell as required by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council for continual internal assurance process and periodic external peer review. The quality reports shall be submitted to the Government.
(11) Every University shall publish an Annual Performance Indicator Report containing, inter alia-
- (a) student enrolment, retention and graduation rates;
- (b) employability, placement and progression outcomes;
- (c) faculty qualifications, turnover and research productivity;
- (d) infrastructure and learning-resource adequacy;
- (e) audited financial statements;
- (f) student satisfaction and grievance statistics.
(12) The State Government shall publish an annual Sikkim Private Universities Quality Dashboard containing comparative institutional indicators.
(13) Notwithstanding, anything contained in this Act or any other Laws, the private universities shall establish their permanent campus within 5
- (five) years from the date of their respective legislation within the allocated constituency.

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