(1) The institutes to whom the autonomy is granted shall be required to obtain equivalence for their courses and programs from the Board.
(2) The autonomous institutes shall get their curriculum, teaching and examination scheme approved by the Board, from time to time.
(3) The Board shall carry out inspection of such autonomous institutes at least once in three years.
(4) The Board shall monitor all academic and examination related activities of the autonomous institutes such as curriculum, teaching, examination scheme, teaching hours, academic schedule, eligibility of candidate to appear for the examination, etc.
(5) The institute to which autonomous status is granted shall carry out assessment, declare results and recommend to the Board for award of joint certificate or diploma for different programmes.
(6) The Governing Body and other committees of autonomous art institutes shall have representative from the Board on such committees.
(7) The Board shall grant equivalence for the purposes of employment or education to any diploma, post diploma, post-graduate diploma, advanced diploma or any such programme conducted by any Government recognized institute under any similar Board or University or any examination authority located in Maharashtra, outside Maharashtra or outside India on the basis of scrutiny of curriculum.
(8) The Board shall, wherever necessary obtain equivalence for any diploma, post diploma, post-graduate diploma, advanced diploma or any such program conducted by the Board from any similar Board, College, University or any other examination authority within or outside India. (9) The Board shall issue eligibility certificate on the basis of equivalence granted to any course or programmes.