Panchkula, Sept. 1 -- The University Grants Commission (UGC) has notified 33 new allied and healthcare degree titles and increased the minimum duration of three existing undergraduate programmes, including Physiotherapy and Optometry, as part of a major revision of its degree specification framework.
The changes have been made through the fifth amendment to the UGC's 2014 Notification on Specification of Degrees, according to a Gazette notification .
Issued under Section 22(3) of the UGC Act, 1956, with the approval of the Central Government, the amendment comes into force from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette. The degrees covered by the amendment fall under the regulatory purview of the National Commission for Allied a...