Background
It was something that Prime Minister, Shri Atal Behari
Vajpayee, said during his speech on the occasion of the
initiation of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Golden
Jubilee Year on 28 December 2002 that sparked off the idea
of revisiting the old UGC logo. In his speech, Shri Vajpayee
spoke of the need to take a fresh look at the UGC Act, 1956
in the light of the new challenges for the education sector
emerging in the twenty-first century. He also suggested that
the Commission could consider changing its name to the
`University Education Development Commission”. This name
truly captures the changed role of the UGC in recent years.
Traditionally, UGC was entrusted with the task of coordination,
formulation and maintenance of the standards of university
education. To this end, it engaged itself in, among other
things, framing regulations on minimum standards of
education, determining standards of teaching, examination
and research in universities, monitoring developments in the
field of collegiate and university education, disbursing grants
to universities and colleges and setting up common facilities,
services and programmes for a group of universities in the
form of Inter-University Centres.
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