The University Grants Commission (UGC) has launched the rules for pursuing twin diploma packages, by which college students can pursue two tutorial packages concurrently. The guideline permits college students to pursue the programs in each Open and Distance Learning (ODL)/ on-line mode and bodily mode beneath sure circumstances.
According to the rules, college students can pursue two full time tutorial programmes in bodily mode supplied the category timings for the programmes don’t overlap. The fee additionally provides provision to pursue one program in bodily mode and the opposite is in ODL mode, or upto two programmes in on-line modes concurrently. According to UGC, the rules shall come into pressure from April 13, 2022.
UGC has prompt universities to plot mechanisms by means of the statutory our bodies to implement the twin diploma packages. The fee has additionally notified that the rules shall be relevant solely to the scholars pursuing tutorial programmes apart from Ph.D. programmes.
According to the fee guideline, solely increased schooling establishments that are acknowledged by UGC, statutory council, or the Government of India, can present the diploma or diploma programme in ODL mode. It additional provides that no retrospective profit will be claimed by the scholars who’ve already accomplished two tutorial programmes concurrently previous to the notification of those tips.
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Source: www.financialexpress.com”