Policy on Consultancy

Uttarakhand Open University has adopted its Consultancy Policy in the Executive Council of the University. It aims to create systematic provisions for carrying out the consultancy work by the faculty of the University. The objectives of Consultancy Policy of the University are as follows:

• To enhance academic endeavors in interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives in collaboration with Universities, Industries, Government Bodies and Academic Institutions.
• To act as a change agent in industrial, social and other issues of the State and National importance.
• To become an active partner of knowledge exchange with other organizations.
• To create, disseminate, retrieve and restore the technical knowhow and knowledge on cross-cutting issues at the University.
• To expand and fortify the research abilities and competencies of members of the faculty.
• To draw synchronization between the current competencies, and demands in the industry with curriculum.
• To promote entrepreneurship development activities and foster employment opportunities through consultancy services.

The University is capable of providing consultancy in various areas of the University System and as such our consultation policy includes a wide range of areas in which consultancy can be provided by the faculty of the University. This consultancy is of three types, viz., Institutional Consultancy, Individual Consultancy and Consultancy for Technical services. Fee received as a result of this consultancy shall be shared between the principal consultant, supporting consultant and the University. All the consultancy reports shall be submitted to the concerned party and also to the University after completion of the consultancy project.
Till now we have provided technical consultancy to many institutions on the basis of requests received from these Universities, e.g., the SIS system of the University was appreciated by Vardhman Mahaveer Open University, Kota, Rajasthan and the University’s technical experts helped to establish thissystem at Kota. Similarly, OER policy adopted by Uttarakhand Open University was used by some other Open Universities. But after approval of the consultancy policy, the future consultancies shall be provided as per the provisions of the consultancy policy.