Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-- (a) “Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee” means the committee constituted by the State Government under section 4 for regulating the admissions, and determination and regulation of fee of private institutions excluding minority institutions; (b) "Permanent residents of Uttarakhand" means permanent residents as defined by the Government of Uttarakhand from time to time; (c) "Common Counseling" means the allotment of seats through a single window procedure to the candidates based on merit obtained in the Common Entrance Test and options given by the candidates; (d) "Common Entrance Test" means the written test, conducted for determination of merit of the candidates for a particular professional course or combined test for more than one professional course; (e) [omitted]; (f) "Fee" means all fees including tuition fee and development charges; (g) "General Category Seats" means the seats other than the reserved seats; (h) "Government" means the Government of Uttarakhand; (i) "Government/Government Aided Professional Institution" means a professional institution established/ maintained or substantially owned by the State Government; (j) "Governor" means Governor of the State of Uttarakhand; (k) “ Government seats” means such seats of private institutions as notified by the State Government; Provided that such seats shall not exceed 50% of total seats in the course; (l) “Management” means any person or body by whatever name called, managing or controlling the private institutions; (m) “Minority” means community notified under clause (f) of section 2 of National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions Act 2004 (Act No 2 year 2005); (mm) “Minority Institution” means any institution established and managed by any minority person after obtaining no objection under subsection 4 of section 10 of the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions Act 2004 (Act No 2 year 2005) or any institution declared by authority established by State Government or National Commission for Minority Education Institution for this purpose; (n) "Non-resident Indian" means a candidate born to a parent of Indian origin and residing outside the country and who has passed the qualifying equivalent examination outside India; (o) "Other Backward Classes" means the backward classes of citizens specified in Schedule 1 of Uttarakhand the Uttar Pradesh Public Services (Reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes) Act, 1994 (Adaptation and Modification) Order, 2001; (p) “Private Institutions” means Unaided private professional higher educational institutions on which this Act applies; (q) "Professional Educational Courses" means course(s) of study notified as "professional course (s)" for the purpose of this act by the State Government leading to the award of a Degree, Diploma or Certificate by whatever name called; (r) [omitted]; (s) "Qualifying examination" means an examination as may be prescribed; (t) “Reserved Seats” means the seats notified by the State Government as reserved in private institutions for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes; (u) "Sanctioned intake" means and implies the total number of seats sanctioned by the competent authority for admitting students in each course of study in a professional educational institution; (v) "State Funded University" means a university established or incorporated by an Act of the State Legislature and funded by the State Government; (w) "State Legislature" means Vidhan Sabha of Uttarakhand; (x) "Unaided Institution" means a private professional educational institution, not being an aided institution or minority institution; (y) "University" means a University so declared under Law; (z) “Authority” means The Appellate Authority constituted by the State Government under section 12 of the Act; (za) “Scheduled Caste” means any caste specified as Scheduled Caste with respect to the State of Uttarakhand under Article 341of the Constitution; (zb) Scheduled Tribe” means any tribe specified as scheduled tribe with respect to the State of Uttarakhand under Article 342 of the Constitution.