(1) Student strength shall be the basis for determination of sections in a college. A section may comprise of not more than eighty students. The Director shall determine the number of sections that can be allowed to be formed in a college taking into consideration the student strength, the infra-structural facilities available in the college and requirement of the area. The managing committee and the principal shall not admit students beyond the limit of the sections so determined.
(2) A practical batch in a science subject shall have a minimum of twenty students unless the total number of students in the subject itself is less than that, in which case the entire section itself shall be the batch.
(3) Every Pre-University college may have upto three sections with three distinct combination of subjects during the first year of its commencement, but there shall be at least two distinct combinations. The minimum and maximum student strength for a Section shall be forty and eighty respectively. No Pre-University college shall be entitled to have a fourth combination of subjects in the second or the subsequent years unless the student strength in at least two such combinations of subjects exceeds forty. A fifth combination may be allowed only when the student strength in the first three combinations exceeds forty in each combination and so on and so forth. Additional sections in any approved combination shall not be allowed unless the student strength in the existing section exceeds hundred.
(4) A minimum of ten students shall be necessary in each of the languages taught in Part-I. If the student strength in any of the approved languages or optional subjects gets reduced below the prescribed student strength successively for three years then the college shall not admit students to the said language or optional subjects in the next academic year.
Any admission made in violation of these rules shall be void, ab-initio and the students shall not be eligible to appear for the annual examinations.