The Uttar Pradesh Educational Institutions (Taking over of Management) Act, 1976
Preamble
diaCode THE UTTAR PRADESH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (TAKING OVER OF MANAGEMENT) ACT, 1976 [U.P. ACT NO. 18 OF 1976] THE UTTAR PRADESH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (TAKING OVER OF MANAGEMENT) ACT, 19761 [U.P. ACT NO. 18 OF 1976] [Authoritative English Text of the Uttar Pradesh Shihsha Shanstha (Prabandha Hath Man Lana) Adhiniyam, 1976] AN ACT to provide for the taking over in the public interest of the management of educational institutions run directly or indirectly by unlawful organizations or by their members or sympathizers. WHEREAS by the Central Government's Order no. SO-306(E), dated July 3, 1975 the Central Government directed that rule 33 of the Defence and Internal Security of India Rules, 1971, shall apply to certain organizations including the organization known as Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh; AND WHEREAS the said organization, namely the Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh or its members or sympathizers are known to have been running, directly or indirectly, the educational institutions specified in the Schedule; AND WHEREAS as a result of the action taken against the said organization and persons, places and funds connected with it, the management of the said institutions was disrupted and it was apprehended that the continued running of the said educational institutions was likely to be interrupted; AND WHEREAS with a view to maintaining the imparting of instruction in the said educational institutions in a proper manner and without being vitiated by the ideology of the said organization, the State Government took over through its officers the management of the said educational institutions on different dates from July 1975 onwards; AND WHEREAS the formal or informal instruction that used to be imparted in the said educational institutions, before their management was so taken over, tended to misguide the children studying therein, and to inculcate feelings of communalism in their impressionable minds, and it is apprehended that if such instruction be permitted to be continued the maintenance of harmony between different religious communities in India may be prejudiced and the process of emotional integration among them be retarded; AND WHEREAS it is apprehended that other organizations to which the said rule 33 of the Defence and Internal Security of India Rules, 1971, apply or their members or sympathizers, may also be found to run educational institutions in which the instruction imparted, formally or informally, may likewise end to misguide the children studying therein and inculcate in their impressionable minds feelings contrary to the national objectives of secularism and emotional integration between different religious communities; AND WHEREAS it is accordingly in the public interest to take over the management of the aforesaid educational institutions for a temporary period; NOW THEREFORE, it is hereby enacted in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India, as follows :- IT IS HEREBY enacted in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows : Short title, extent and commencement (1) This Act may be called the Uttar Pradesh Educational Institutions (Taking Over of Management) Act, 1976; (2) It extends to the whole of Uttar Pradesh (3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on February 28, 1976.
Sections
Type to filter. 13 sections.
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