Definitions

(a) Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee means the committee constituted by the State Government under section 4, for the regulation of admission and for the fixation and regulation of fee in private institutions, excluding minority institutions; (b) Permanent resident of Uttarakhand means a person defined as such from time to time by the Uttarakhand Government; (c) Common Counselling means the allotment of seats through single window system on the basis of merit earned by the applicants in the common entrance test and the options given by them; (d) Common Entrance Test means a written test conducted for determination of the merit of applicants for a specific professional course or a joint examination for more than one professional courses; (e) [Deleted]; (f) Fee means all fees including tuition fee and development fee; (g) General Category Seats means seats other than the seats reserved for reserved category; (h) Government means the Government of Uttarakhand; (i) Government/Government Aided Professional Institution means a professional educational institution established by the State Government/jointly funded by the State Government; (j) Governor means the Governor of the State of Uttarakhand; (k) Government Seat means such number of seats of private institutions as may be notified by the State Government: Provided that such seats shall not exceed 50 percent of the total seats in the course; (l) Management means any person or body, by whatever name called, controlling and managing a private institution; (m) Minority means the community notified under clause (p) of section 2 of the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions Act, 2004 (Act No. 02 of 2005); (m-m) Minority Institution means an educational institution established and administered by a minority after obtaining no objection certificate under sub-section (4) of section 10 of the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions Act, 2004 (Act No. 02 of 2005) or declared as such by an authority appointed by the State Government or by the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions; (n) Non-Resident Indian means an applicant who is born to parents who are of Indian origin and who is residing outside the country and who has passed the equivalent qualifying examination outside India; (o) Other Backward Classes means the citizens specified in Schedule 1 of the Uttarakhand (Uttar Pradesh Public Services Reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes Act, 1994) (Adaptation and Modification) Order, 2001; (p) Private Institution means unaided private professional higher educational institutions to which this Act applies; (q) Professional Educational Course means a course or courses notified by the State Government as professional course/courses for the purposes of this Act for obtaining a degree, diploma, certificate, by whatever name called; (r) [Deleted]; (s) Qualifying Examination means such examination as may be prescribed; (t) Reserved Seat means the reserved seats notified by the State Government in favour of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes in private institutions; (u) Sanctioned Intake means the total number of seats approved by the competent authority for admission in each course of study in a professional educational institution; (v) State Funded University means a university established and incorporated by an Act of the State Legislature and funded by the State Government; (w) State Legislature means the Legislative Assembly of Uttarakhand; (x) Unaided Institution means such a private professional educational institution which is neither an aided institution nor a minority institution; (y) University means a university declared as such according to rules; (z) Authority means the Appellate Authority constituted by the State Government under section 12 of the Act; (aa) Scheduled Castes means the castes specified as Scheduled Castes in relation to the State of Uttarakhand under Article 341 of the Constitution; (ab) Scheduled Tribes means the tribes specified as Scheduled Tribes in relation to the State of Uttarakhand under Article 342 of the Constitution.