Act Number: 3

Act Name: The University Grants Commission Act, 1956

Year: 1956

Enactment Date: 1956-03-03

Long Title: An Act to make provision for the co-ordination and determination of standards in Universities and for that purpose, to establish a University Grants Commission.

Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource Development

Department: Department of Higher Education

Section 1: Short title and commencement.
    (1) This Act may be called the University Grants Commission Act, 1956.
     (2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Notes:
1. 5th November, 1956, vide notification No. S.R.O. 2608, dated 1st November, 1956, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3.
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