Section 9 in University Grants Commission (Conferment of Autonomous Status upon Colleges and Measures for Maintenance of Standards in Autonomous Colleges) Regulations, 2018
9. Monitoring of Autonomous Colleges.
- 9.1 IQAC cell shall be established in the college for regular monitoring of the college under intimation to UGC. The Cell shall have an external Peer Team comprising of academicians of repute and will send report to UGC regarding the performance of the College. The report shall also be put on public domain on the website of the College. The external peer review shall be conducted atleast once in a year.9.2On receipt of adverse report by the external peer team of IQAC or in case of complaint, UGC has the power to constitute its own Expert Committee for careful scrutiny of the report and may revoke the autonomous status of the college after giving due opportunity to the management by way of notification and by passing a speaking order.9.3The autonomous college shall, without fail, upload on its website information regarding the courses offered by it, the fees for the courses, the details of the faculty alongwith qualification and unique ID, the admission procedure, the details of relevant infrastructures, research activities of the college along with the details of Ph.D. students enrolled, if any, with the date of enrolment, topics and supervisor.9.4The college shall also put on its website the creation of various Committees/Cells as mandated in the various UGC Regulations notified from time to time. The college shall conduct the meetings of the statutory bodies regularly and upload the minutes of the meetings on the college website.9.5The college shall upload on its website all the information about the college in the prescribed format and the same shall be sent to UGC while applying for fresh/extension of autonomous status. The college shall also submit progress report and utilization certificate annually as per the prescribed formats.9.6All the Regulations notified by the UGC shall be followed in letter and spirit by all the Autonomous Colleges and an undertaking to this effect shall be uploaded on the College website.9.7The number of contractual faculty in an autonomous college should not be more than 10% of the total number of sanctioned faculty positions in the college.
