Draft of Comments / suggestions on the draft Regulations Title "UGC (Approval of Colleges Offering Technical and Professional Education by Universities) Regulations 2013

[ANAND PALEKAR]

I have prepared following draft for Comments / suggestions on the draft Regulations Title "UGC (Approval of Colleges Offering Technical and Professional Education by Universities) Regulations 2013

I request you to send it on following email id

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Subject :- Comments / suggestions on the draft Regulations Title "UGC (Approval of Colleges Offering Technical and Professional Education by Universities) Regulations 2013

Respected Sir,

With reference to UGC's Public Notice Ref. F. No.14-9/2013(CPP-II) dated 23rd December 2013 i would like to suggest on following points.

Sir, Regarding Library staff i have following suggestions

1. There should be norms regarding Library staff.
The staff student ratio should be specified strictly.
Additional staff for PG courses.
Additional staff second shift.

Sir, Regarding online / e-journals i have following suggestions
1. All e-journals / e-resources should be procured through AICTE-INDEST Consortia. It will beneficial. We will get highly discounted rates of subscription and better terms of agreement with the publishers. We can control the subscription rates in future .

2. There should be a single subscription for a campus. When a mandatory e-resource is common for various courses (eg. IEEE for Engineering & MCA) and if such courses are in a campus, connected through LAN then a single subscription for a campus is sufficient. Making subscription of same e-resource mandatory to each course is wastage of Indian money. Maximum publisher are foreign publishers & paying extra for same to them is wastage. Every year educational institutes in India are providing business of more than Rs. 1,500 crore to foreign publishers. We can reduce it by implementing integrated campus e-resource sharing facility.
3.While making any E- resources mandatory its previous years usage must be analysed.
4. Mandatory E-resources should be relevant to course. Publisher should prepare standard packages relevant to course only.
5. Instead of making mandatory subscription of all e-resources we can adopt policy of payment against required / downloaded papers only. It can manage through one single platform.
6.Instead of making mandatory subscription to all e-resources we can adopt policy of spending % of fee on library facilities.

Sir, hope you will find my comments / suggestion suitable for "UGC (Approval of Colleges Offering Technical and Professional Education by Universities) Regulations 2013 regulations.

Thanks a lot for giving us such a nice opportunity.

Regards.