APPENDIX Z (b)- SCOPE OF FUNCTIONS OF THE CENTRAL UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMITTEE
The University of Bombay have suggested that the Grants Committee constituted under the purview of the Government of India, besides catering to the needs of the centrally administered universities should also aid universities in other parts of India and should every year on a fixed date ascertain from all the Indian Universities their respective needs and only thereafter decide the awards of grants for the same year. T,he Bombay University also suggest that the scope of the Grants Committee be enlarged and more funds placed at its disposal so as to enable the Committee to implement the suggestion made above.
2. The constitution of the Central University Grants Committee has recently been revised and is reproduced below for the information of the Board:
Government of India Ministry of Education, Resolution No. 6-4/47-UGC, dated 16th December, 1947:-
A University Grants Committee consisting of 4 members
(including a, Chairman) was set up in the late
Education, Health and Lands Department by the Resolution
No. F. 114-2/44-E. I., dated the 4th June, 1945. The
number of members of the Committee was subsequently
raised from 4 to 7, by the Education Department
Resolution No. F 55-5/46-E. I., dated the 27th July,
1946.
In view of the recent constitutional changes and the
additional responsibility that the Central University
Grant Committee will have to undertake in the
coordinated development of university education in this
country Government of India have decided to reconstitute
the Committee with an enlarged membership. The
Committee will make enquiries and recommendations
regarding-
(i) the lines on which the Universities and other
institutions of higher learning should develop,
(ii) the additional amounts in the form of grants- in-aid
from public funds required for them, and
(iii) the co-ordination of their activities with a view to
avoiding unnecessary overlapping.