OPEI Amendment Act 2016

 

     EXTRAORDINARY 
   PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY 

 
 No.  718,   CUTTACK,   FRIDAY,  APRIL  22,  2016 / BAISAKHA  2,  1938 

 
 

LAW DEPARTMENT 
NOTIFICATION 

The 22nd April, 2016 
              No.3535―I-Legis-4/2016/L.—The following Act of the Odisha Legislative 
Assembly having been assented to by the Governor on the 19th April, 2016 is hereby 
publish for general information. 

ODISHA ACT 3 OF 2016 

THE ODISHA PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS  
(REGULATION OF ADMISSION AND FIXATION OF FEE)  

AMENDMENT ACT, 2016 
 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE ODISHA PROFESSIONAL 
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (REGULATION OF ADMISSION 

AND FIXATION OF FEE) ACT, 2007 
 

       BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of 
Odisha in the Sixty-seventh Year of the Republic of 
India as follows:— 

1. (1) This Act may be called the Odisha 
Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of 
Admission and Fixation of Fee) Amendment Act, 
2016. 

         (2) It shall be deemed to have come into 
force on the 4th day of January, 2016. 

 

Amendment  
of section 2. 

2. In the Odisha Professional Educational 
Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation of 
Fee) Act, 2007 (hereinafter referred to as the 
principal Act), in section 2, for clause (k), the 
following clause shall be substituted, namely:— 

  

Odisha Act,  
4 of 2007. 

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 “(k) ‘Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)’ means an 

entrance test as may be decided by the Government 

for all professional educational Institutions, for 

determination of merit of the candidates followed by 

centralized counselling for the purpose of admission 

to such institutions through a single window 

system;”. 

 

 

Amendment  

of section 3. 
     3.  In the principal Act, for Section 3, the 

following Section shall be substituted, namely:— 
 

 

“Method of 

admission in 
professional 

educational 
Institutions. 

        3. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, 

admission of students in all private professional 
education institutions, Government institutions and 

sponsored institutions to all seats including lateral entry 
seats, shall be made through Entrance Test (s) 
approved by the Government followed by centralized 

counselling in order of merit, in accordance with such 
procedure as recommended by the Policy Planning 
Body and approved by the Government. 

     (2) After vacancy round of Odisha Joint Entrance 

Examination (OJEE)/Diploma Entrance Test (DET) 

Counselling, i.e. after minimum of two rounds of 
Centralized Counselling, the modalities shall be decided 
by the Government from time to time for filling up of the 

vacant seats taking candidates from the Entrance 
Test(s) approved by the Government on merit basis of 
all the Technical and Professional Institutes under the 

supervision of the OJEE/DET Committee. The seats to 
which candidates could not be sponsored due to dearth 
of choice and the seats remained vacant due to non-

reporting cases after 2nd round of Centralised 
Counselling shall be considered as vacant seats against 

which the College can admit students following the 

 



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modalities fixed by the Government. In any case, the 
reported cases shall not be given further opportunity to 
participate in the admission process meant for filling up 

of vacancies at Institution level”. 
 

Amendment  

of section 4. 
4. In the principal Act, in section 4, in sub-section 

(6), for Clause (b), the following clause shall be 
substituted, namely:— 

“(b) formulate policy guideline for holding JEE 
or otherwise – as decided by the Government”. 

 

 

Repeal and 
Savings. 

5. (1) The Odisha Professional Educational 

Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation of 

Fee) Amendment Ordinance, 2016 is hereby repealed. 

      (2) Notwithstanding the repeal under sub-section 

(1), anything done or any action taken under the 

Ordinance so repealed shall be deemed to have been 

done or taken under this Act. 

 

        By order of the Governor 

             B. P. ROUTRAY 
                                 Principal Secretary to Government. 

 

 

 

 
 

 
 
Odisha 
Ordinance  
1 of 2016. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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