Composition, Disqualification and functions

(1) The State Government shall constitute an Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee comprising:-- (a) Retired Judge of High Court of nominated by the State Government - Chairman (b) Principal Secretary/Secretary, Medical Education (Ex-Officio) - Member (c) Principal Secretary/Secretary, Technical Education (Ex-Officio) - Member (d) Principal Secretary/Secretary, Law (Ex-Officio) - Member (e) A Retired Government Officer retired from a post not below the rank of Secretary to the State Government nominated by the State Government - Member (f) One Ex-Vice- Chancellor of the State University nominated by the Governor - Member (g) Two Eminent Educationist nominated by the State Government - Member (h) A renowned Chartered Accountant as defined in the rules nominated by the State Government - Member (i) Principal Secretary/Secretary, Higher Education (Ex-Officio) -Member Secretary. (2) The committee shall come into force from the date of its notification and the term of office of the nominated members shall be 03 years from the date of nomination or until they attain 65 years of age, whichever is earlier; Provided that the term of office of the Chairman of the The Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee shall be for a period of three years or until the attainment of age of 68 years whichever is earlier and in case of any vacancy arising earlier in the Committee, for any reasons, the State Government shall fill such vacancy, not later three months from the date of occurance vacancy, for the remainder of the term. (3) No act or proceeding of the Committee shall be deemed to be invalid by the reason merely of any vacancy in, or any defect in the constitution of the committee. (4) No person, who is associated with any private institution in any manner, shall be eligible for being as Chairman or a member of the Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee. (5) (i) The Chairman or a Member may, by writing under his hand addressed to the State Government, resign from the office of the Chairman or a Member, as the case may be, at any time. (ii) The State Government shall remove a person from the office of the Chairman or a Member referred to in sub-section(i) if the person :- (a) becomes an undischarged insolvent; (b) is convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for an offence which, in the opinion of the State Government, involves moral turpitude; (c) refuses to act or becomes incapable of acting; (d) has, in the opinion of the State Government, so abused the position of the Chairman or any Member as to render that person’s Continuance in office detrimental to the public interest or the Chairman or any Member of the Committee shall be removed, if he performs any act, which in the opinion of State Government is unbecoming of Chairman or member of the Committee; Provided that, no such Chairman or any member shall be removed by the State Government without giving him an opportunity of being heard. (6) The Chairman shall preside over the meeting of the committee and in absence of Chairman the committee shall choose one of its members for chairing that particular meeting and the Committee may adopt its own procedure as it deems fit.