UGC Regional Offices

Objectives

Pursuance to the National Policy on Education (1986), the UGC decentralised its working by opening seven regional offices catering to the states under it. The objectives of setting up these offices were to bring about decentralisation and to ensure that a large number of colleges through the country, which are covered under Section 2(f) and 12(B) of the UGC Act, will have better opportunites of response to their needs and problems by way of easier access.

Schemes

The follwoing schemes are being implemented by the regional offices

• Development of Colleges affiliated to State Universities

• Minor Research Projects for College teachers.

• Autonomous Colleges

• Seminar/Symposia/Conference etc. for colleges

• Construction of Women's Hostel (Special scheme)

• Award of Teacher Fellowship to College Teachers for doing M.Phil/Ph.D.

• Financial assistance to Teachers - Visually Handicapped (Blind)

The details of the regional office viz. the States assigned to each regional office are given below :

1. Southern Eastern Rgional Office (SERO)
   
   Location: Hyderabad   < see contact details >
   Date of Establishment: 20.09.1994
   Total number of Colleges: 668
   States Covered: Andhra Pradesh, Pondicherry, Andman & Nicobar and Tamil Nadu

2. Western Regional Office (WRO)
   
   Location: Pune   < see contact details >
   Date of Establishment: 11.11.1994
   Total number of Colleges: 996
   States Covered: Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa, Dadar & Nagar Haveli, Daman and Deu

3. Central Regional Office (CRO)
   
   Location: Bhopal   < see contact details >
   Date of Establishment: 01.12.1994
   Total number of Colleges: 791
   States Covered: Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan

4. Northern Regional College Bureua (NRCB)
   
   Location: Delhi   < see contact details >
   Total number of Colleges: 922
   States Covered: Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Chandigarh, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh

5. North-Eastern Regional Office (NERO)
   
   Location: Guwahati   < see contact details >
   Date of Establishment: 01.04.1995
   Total number of Colleges: 253
   States Covered: Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland

6. Eastern Regional Office (ERO)
   
   Location: Kolkata   < see contact details >
   Date of Establishment: 03.09.1996
   Total number of Colleges: 1009
   States Covered: West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Sikkim

7. South-Western Regional Office (SWRO)
   
   Location: Bangalore   < see contact details >
   Date of Establishment: 25.04.1999
   Total number of Colleges: 714
   States Covered: Kerala, Karnataka and Lakshadweep