"3 All such persons specified in Sr. No. 1 Rs. 2200/- and 2 who opt for payment of tax on on annual basis."
lump sum basis.
Sd/- DEVINDER KUMAR GUPTA, Legal Remembrancer, Department of Legal and Legislative Affairs.
Amendment in the Schedule appended to Punajb Act 11 of
2018.
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PART I GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS, PUNJAB NOTIFICATION The 8th August, 2025 No. 12-Leg./2025.- The following Act of the Legislature of the State of Punjab received the assent of the Governor of Punjab on the 24th day of July, 2025, is hereby published for general information :- THE C.G.C. UNIVERSITY, MOHALI ACT, 2025 (Punjab Act No. 11 of 2025) AN ACT to establish and incorporate a University in the State of Punjab to be known as the C.G.C. University, Mohali for the purposes of making provisions for imparting instructions, teaching, education, research, training and related activities at all levels in the disciplines of higher education including Engineering, Medical, Paramedical, Sciences, Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Humanities, Liberal arts, management, e-learning, and online education and training, and to provide for the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto;
Whereas the Chandigarh Educational Society registered under the provisions of the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (Central Act No. XXI of 1860), made a proposal to the State Government for setting up a self-financing University in the State of Punjab on the basis of the Punjab Private Universities Policy, 2010 and to make provisions for all the streams of higher education at all levels;
Whereas the State Government, after due consideration of the said proposal of the aforesaid Society has come to the conclusion that the aforesaid Society is capable of establishing and running the University and accordingly has accepted its proposal for the establishment of the said private University;
AND whereas in the circumstances referred to above, it is deemed expedient to establish the C.G.C. University, Mohali for the aforesaid purposes.
BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Seventysixth Year of the Republic of India, as follows:-
1. (1) This Act may be called the C.G.C. University, Mohali Act, 2025.
(2) It shall come into force on and with effect from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) ‘Academic Council’ means the Academic Council of the University;
(b) ‘authorities’ means the authorities of the University;
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(c) ‘Board of Management’ means the Board of Management of the University;
(d) ‘Board of Studies’ means a body to be constituted by the Governing Body;
(e) ‘campus’ means a contiguous area within which the University is situated;
(f) ‘Chancellor’ means the Chancellor of the University;
(g) ‘Chairperson’ means the Chairperson of the Society;
(h) ‘Chief Finance and Accounts Officer’ means the Chief Finance and Accounts Officer of the University;
(i) 'Dean’ means the Dean of the University;
(j) 'Finance Committee' means the Finance Committee of the University;
(k) ‘Governing Body’ means the Governing Body of the University;
(l) ‘institution’ means any institution or college or academic center (by whatever name it may be called) established, run, managed, recognized or constituted by the University, within the campus;
(m) ‘prescribed’ means prescribed by the statutes, ordinances and regulations;
(n) ‘Registrar’ means the Registrar of the University;
(o) 'Society' means the Chandigarh Educational Society registered under the provisions of the Societies Registration Act, (Central Act No.
XXI of 1860);
(p) ‘State Government’ means the Government of the State of Punjab;
(q) ‘statutes’, ‘ordinances’ and ‘regulations’ means the statutes, ordinances and regulations of the University made by it under this Act;
(r) ‘teacher’ includes Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and any such other person, who imparts instruction in the University; or in any of its institutions and centers;
(s) ‘University’ means the C.G.C. University, Mohali, established under section 3 of this Act;
(t) ‘Vice-Chancellor’ means the Vice-Chancellor of the University;
and
(u) ‘Visitor’ means the Visitor of the University.
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3. (1) There shall be established a private University by the name of the C.G.C. University, Mohali in the State of Punjab.
(2) The University shall be run and managed by the Society in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
(3) The University shall be a body corporate by the name mentioned in sub-section (1) and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal. It shall have the power to acquire, lease, hold, mortgage and dispose of property, both moveable and immovable and to make contracts, and shall sue and be sued by the said name.
(4) The Headquarter of the University shall be located at Landran- Sirhind Road, Jhanjeri, District Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab.
(5) The University shall be self-financed and it shall not be entitled to receive any grant or other financial assistance from the State Government.
4. The objects of the University shall be,-
(i) to provide for instructions, teaching, education, research and training at all levels in all discipline of higher education including professional, engineering, medical, para-medical, Indian Medicines, technical, general education, humanities, social sciences, life sciences, management, e-learning, and online education and training in any other stream and subject, as per the needs of the industry and the society in general, as may be deemed necessary by the University, as permissible under the State or Central law and with the approval of the concerned Regulatory Authority;
(ii) to promote the academic aspirations of rural students;
(iii) to undertake industry-oriented teaching, training and research extension programmes and to provide employable skills with a view to contribute to the development of the society;
(iv) to provide for research, creation, advancement and dissemination of knowledge, wisdom and understanding;
(v) to encourage and motivate leading industrial houses for setting up their respective corporate institute at the campus for academia industry nexus;
(vi) to disseminate knowledge so as to make it accessible to all strata of the society;
(vii) to promote Punjabi studies, to provide for research in Punjabi language and literature and to undertake measures for the development of Punjabi language, literature and culture;
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(viii) to open study centers, campuses, centers within its jurisdiction in accordance with the prevailing regulations, with the approval of the State Government;
(ix) to set up off-campus centers, off-shore campuses, study centers and zonal or regional centers as per the guidelines of the University Grants Commission or its equivalent Body so created by the Central Government, and with the approval of the State Government; and
(x) to do all such things, as may be necessary or desirable to further the objects of the University.
5. The University shall have the following powers and functions to be exercised and performed by it or through its officers and authorities, namely: -
(i) to impart education and to provide for instructions in various branches of learning and to confer or grant, subject to such conditions as the University may determine, degrees, diplomas, certificates or other academic distinctions on the basis of examinations, evaluation or any other method of testing on persons and to withdraw any such degree, diploma, certificate or other academic distinctions for good and sufficient cause;
(ii) to make provisions and adopt all measures, including adoption and updating of the curricula in respect of starting courses of study, teaching, training, research, consultancy and granting recognition and affiliation relating to the courses through traditional as well as new innovative modes including online education modes;
(iii) to organize and to undertake extra mural studies and extension services;
(iv) to conduct examinations for granting or conferring Post Doctorate, Doctorate, Masters, Degrees, Diplomas and Certificates;
(v) to provide for dual Degree, Diploma or Certificate vis-à-vis other Universities on reciprocal basis;
(vi) to institute and confer honorary Degrees and other distinctions, as may be prescribed;
(vii) to conduct e-learning and online education programmes, as may be determined by the University;
(viii) to provide for equivalence of the degrees, diplomas and certificates of the students completing their courses partially or in full, from any other recognized University, Board or Council or any other competent authority;
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(ix) to institute and confer the designation of Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, or any other equivalent designation, as may be required by the University in its campuses or its institutions and to appoint persons as such;
(x) to create academic, administrative, ministerial, technical and other posts and to make appointments thereto;
(xi) to appoint persons working in any other University or institutions or organizations having specific knowledge, permanently or for a specified period;
(xii) to co-operate, collaborate or associate with any other University or authority or institution in such manner and for such purpose, as the University may determine;
(xiii) to establish and maintain study centers, examination centers, information centers, schools, institutions, specialized laboratories or other units for research and instructions as may be determined by the University for furtherance of its objects within its campus;
(xiv) to undertake research and consultancy and for that purpose to enter into such arrangements with other institutions or bodies as the University may deem necessary;
(xv) to determine standards for admission into the University, which may include examination, evaluation or any other method of testing;
(xvi) to prescribe the fee structure for various categories of students, in view of clause 8 of the Punjab Private Universities Policy, 2010;
(xvii) to demand and collect fees and other charges, as may be prescribed;
(xviii) to supervise the residences of the students of the University and to make arrangements for the promotion of their health and general welfare;
(xix) to make special arrangements in respect of female students, as the University may consider necessary and desirable;
(xx) to regulate and enforce discipline among the employees and students of the University and take such disciplinary measures in this regard, as may be deemed necessary by the University;
(xxi) to make arrangements for promoting the health and general welfare of the employees of the University;
(xxii) to receive donations; and acquire, hold, manage and dispose of any moveable or immovable property;
(xxiii) to borrow money for the purposes of the University, with the approval of the Society;
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(xxiv) to mortgage or hypothecate the property of the University with the approval of the Society;
(xxv) to hold, manage and run the funds of the Society and the endowments created in favour of the University;
(xxvi) to receive and to raise loans and advances for the University;
(xxvii) to purchase, acquire and take on lease or mortgage any immovable or movable property and to sell, lease, mortgage, alienate and transfer any immovable or movable property belonging to or vested in the University;
(xxviii) to receive grants from the University Grants Commission and other Central or State agencies;
(xxix) to fix, determine and provide salaries, remunerations and honoraria to teachers and employees of the University in accordance with the norms specified by the University Grants Commission;
(xxx) to do self-certification, which shall be exempted from obtaining any permission, approval, license, certificate, No Objection Certificate or authorization from the State Government or any other body, set up by the State Government;
(xxxi) to frame statutes, ordinances and regulations for carrying out the objects of the University; and
(xxxii) to perform all such other functions, which may be necessary or desirable in furtherance of the objects of the University.
6. (1) The University shall exercise its jurisdiction within its campuses in the State of Punjab only.
(2) The University shall affiliate to it those educational or professional institutions, established, run or managed by the Society within the campus regard to which a specific decision is taken by the Society.
7. The following shall be the officers of the University, namely: -
(i) the Visitor;
(ii) the Chancellor;
(iii) the Vice-Chancellor;
(iv) the Registrar;
(v) the Deans of the Faculties;
(vi) the Chief Finance and Accounts Officer; and
(vii) such other officers of the University, as may be declared by the statutes, to be the officers of the University.
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8. (1) The Governor of Punjab shall be the Visitor of the University.
(2) The Visitor shall preside over the convocation of the University for conferring degrees and diplomas.
(3) The Visitor shall have the right to call for any information relating to the affairs of the University.
(4) The Visitor, in consultation with the Chancellor, may cause the inspection, scrutiny, investigation, survey or inquiry or any other such like thing to be made by such person, as he may direct in respect of administrative, academic or executive matters of the University.
(5) The Visitor shall, in every case, give notice to the University of his intention to cause the inspection, scrutiny, investigation, survey or inquiry or any other such like thing, to be made and the University shall appoint a representative, who shall be present at such inspection, scrutiny, investigation, survey or inquiry, or any other such like thing, as the case may be.
(6) The Visitor may inform the Vice-Chancellor about the results of such inspection, scrutiny, investigation, survey or inquiry and the Vice-Chancellor shall communicate to the Governing Body, the views of the Visitor along with such advice, as the Visitor may have tendered and the action to be taken on such advice.
(7) The Vice-Chancellor shall inform the Visitor about the action taken or proposed to be taken by the University with respect to the inspection, scrutiny, investigation, survey, inquiry, or any other such like thing, as the case may be.
(8) If the State Government considers it appropriate, in public interest, to make inspection, scrutiny, investigation, survey or inquiry, as the case may be, in respect of any matter relating to the University or its institutions, a reference shall be made by the State Government to the Vice-Chancellor, who shall cause such inspection, scrutiny, investigation, survey or inquiry to be made.
9. (1) The Chairperson or any distinguished person nominated by the Society shall be the Chancellor of the University and in the absence of the Visitor, the Chancellor shall preside over the convocation of the University.
(2) The Chancellor shall be the Chairman of the Governing Body and he or she shall approve all appointments, nominations, removals, suspensions and reinstatements of the employees and officers of the University on the recommendation of the Governing Body of the University.
(3) The Chancellor may amend or revoke any decision taken by any authority or officer of the University and may exercise his powers, to do all necessary things to facilitate the smooth functioning of the University on the recommendation of the Governing Body.
The visitors The Chancellor.
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(4) The Chancellor shall have the power to perform all such other functions, as may be required to do in furtherance to the objects of the University and any matter incidental thereto and the decisions taken by the Chancellor shall be final and binding on all the concerned of the University.
(5) If, in the opinion of the Chancellor, any decision of any officer or authority of the University is beyond the powers conferred under this Act or the statutes or the ordinances or the regulations or is likely to be prejudicial to the interests of the University, the Chancellor shall ask such officer or authority to revise his or its decision within a period of fifteen days and in case the officer or authority refuses to revise such decision, wholly or partly, or fails to take any decision within a period of fifteen days, the decision of the Chancellor thereon shall be final.
(6) If, at any time, upon the representation made or otherwise, it appears to the Chancellor that the Vice-Chancellor or any other officer of the University, -
(a) has made default in performing any duty imposed upon him under this Act or otherwise; or
(b) has acted in a manner prejudicial to the interests of the University; or
(c) is incapable of managing the affairs of the University, the Chancellor may, notwithstanding the fact that term of that officer has not expired by an order in writing and stating the reasons therein, require the Vice-Chancellor or the officer concerned to relinquish his or her office from such date, as may be specified in the order. The Vice-Chancellor or the officer concerned shall be deemed to have relinquished his office from the date so specified:
Provided that no such order shall be passed, unless the grounds on which such action is proposed to be taken are communicated to the Vice-Chancellor or to the officer concerned and he or she is given reasonable opportunity of being heard.
10. (1) The Vice-Chancellor shall be appointed by the Chancellor from amongst the panel of three persons recommended by the Governing Body.
(2) No person shall be appointed as Vice-Chancellor, unless he or she possesses such qualifications, as are specified by the University Grants Commission or its equivalent body so created by the Central Government.
(3) The Vice-Chancellor shall be the overall in-charge of the University who shall exercise general superintendence and control in the affairs of the University and shall execute the decisions of various authorities of the University.
The Vice- Chancellor.
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(4) In case of the absence of the Visitor and the Chancellor, the Vice- Chancellor shall preside over the convocation of the University.
(5) The Vice-Chancellor shall exercise such powers and perform such functions, as may be prescribed.
11. (1) The Registrar shall be appointed by the Chancellor from amongst the panel of three persons recommended by the Governing Body.
(2) No person shall be appointed as Registrar, unless he or she possesses such qualifications as are specified by the University Grants Commission, or its equivalent body so created by the Central Government.
(3) The Registrar shall sign all contracts and authenticate all documents or records for and on behalf of the University.
(4) The Registrar shall be the Member-Secretary of the Governing Body, the Board of Management and the Academic Council but he or she shall not have the right to vote.
(5) The Registrar shall exercise such other powers and perform such other functions, as may be prescribed.
12. (1) The Chief Finance and Accounts Officer shall be appointed by the Chancellor in such manner, as may be prescribed.
(2) No person shall be qualified to be appointed as Chief Finance and Accounts Officer, unless he has passed the Chartered Accountancy Test conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
(3) The Chief Finance and Accounts Officer shall exercise such powers and perform such functions, as may be prescribed.
13. (1) The University may appoint such other officers, as it may deem necessary for its smooth functioning.
(2) The manner of appointment of such other officers of the University and their powers and functions shall be such, as may be prescribed.