new delhi the university grants commission ugc on tuesday approved full autonomy for 62 higher educational institutions including jnu bhu amu teri and university of hyderabad which have maintained high standards of excellencethe decision was taken at a ugc meeting today where five central universities 21 state universities 26 private universities besides 10 other colleges were granted autonomy under the autonomous colleges regulationunion human resource development minister prakash javadekar hailed as historic the ugc move which will enable the selected institutes to decide their admission procedure fee structure and curriculum among otherstoday is a historic day for higher education in india these quality institutions will get complete autonomy by which they can start new courses new departments new programmes off campuses skill courses research parks appoint foreign faculty take foreign students offer variable incentive packages introduce online distance learning javadekar told reporters herehe said these institutes can also get into academic collaboration with top five hundred universities of the worldand for all of this they will not have to come to the regulator again and again for seeking permission because they have maintained quality and achieved a benchmark of 326 and above naac national accreditation and assessment council ranking he addedthe central universities which have been granted autonomy include jawaharlal nehru university jnu aligarh muslim university amu banaras hindu university bhu university of hyderabad and the english and foreign languages university telanganathe state universities which have been granted the autonomous status are jadavpur university andhra university algappa university national university of law utkal university kurukshetra university osmania university guru nanak dev university university of jammu university of mysore anna university panjab university and university of madras among othersop jindal global university sonipat and pandit deen dayal petroleum university gujarat are among the private institutions selected by the ugc for the autonomous statusthe 10 colleges which have been granted autonomy will have full freedom but not degreeawarding powers javadekar saidthe colleges will be free to conduct admissions decide curriculum conduct exams on their own and evaluate them and declare the results however the degrees which will be awarded will have the university name along with theirs he addedthe ugc also decided to issue showcause notice to three deemed to be universities for not meeting the required standards