PLAGIARISM

Aug. 4, 2018

Union HRD Ministry has approved new regulations on plagiarism drafted by the UGC, which prescribes graded punishment for plagiarism.

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Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has notified the UGC (Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2018.
Objective of new regulations: To eliminate plagiarism in higher education in the country.
Salient features:
- In core area of Research: Any kind of plagiarism is banned.
- In non-core areas of research: It provides for graded punishment for students and teachers found guilty of plagiarism.

Level of Plagiarism in their research paper	Punishment for students	Punishment for teachers
up to 10%	No punishment	No punishment
10–40%	Students will have to submit a revised research paper within 6 months.	Teachers will be asked to withdraw the academic and research papers.
40–60%	Students will be debarred from submitting a revised paper for 1 year.	Teachers will be denied the right to one annual increment and right to supervise new masters, M.Phil, PhD students for 2 years.
above 60%	Student’s registration for a programme will be cancelled.	Teacher will be suspended, even dismissed.

Institutional mechanism: If any member of the academic community suspects plagiarism, he or she shall report it to the Departmental Academic Integrity Panel.

Source : The Hindu