Act Number: 50

Act Name: The Indira Gandhi National Open University Act, 1985

Year: 1985

Enactment Date: 1985-09-02

Long Title: An Act to establish and incorporate an open University at the national level for the introduction and promotion of the open university and distance education systems in the educational pattern of the country and for the co-ordination and determination of standards in such systems.

Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource Development

Department: Department of Higher Education

Section 32: Provident and pension funds.
    (1) The University shall constitute for the benefit of the employees such provident or pension funds or provide such insurance schemes as it may deem fit in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the Statutes.
     (2) Where such provident or pension fund has been so constituted, the Central Government may declare that the provisions of the Provident Funds Act, 1925 (19 of 1925) shall apply to such funds, as if it were a Government Provident Fund.
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