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INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK

UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION (UGC)

INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRES

The UGC establishes autonomous Inter-University Centres within the university system under Clause 12(ccc) of the UGC Act. The objectives for setting up these centres are:

o To provide common advanced centralized facilities/services for universities which are not able to invest heavily in infrastructure and other inputs.

o To play a vital role in offering the best expertise in each field to teachers and researchers across the country.

o To provide access for research and teaching community to the state-of-the-art equipment and excellent library facilities which are comparable to international standards.

The Nuclear Science Centre at New Delhi (Inter University Accelerated Centre) was the first research centre established in 1994. As of today, six Inter University Centres are functioning within the university system:

Centre Objectives

Centre	Objectives
Inter University Accelerator Centre (formerly – Nuclear Science Centre NSC) New Delhi)	Accelerator oriented research
Inter-University Consortium for DAE facilities, Indore	Use of facilities of Department of Atomic Energy
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astro-Physics (IUCAA), Pune	State-of-the-art instrumentation for
Consortium for Education Communication (CEC), New Delhi.	To disseminate countrywide programme through television
Information and Library Network INFLIBNET, Ahmedabad	Networking of libraries through electronic media
National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bangalore	To assess and accredit public & Private institutions of higher learning.

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