UGC constitutes panel to control plagiarism

The objective is to create academic awareness and original work in research, study, project assignments, thesis and dissertation to establish institutional mechanism through education and training to avoid plagiarism.

They also plan to develop systems to detect plagiarism and to set up mechanisms to punish a student, faculty, or staff.

The UGC has also recommended Higher Education Institutions to establish a mechanism to create awareness about responsible conduct of research and

academic activities, promotion of integrity and deterrence from plagiarism.

As part of the awareness programmes and training, universities and colleges are recommended to instruct students and staff about proper attribution, seeking permission of the author wherever necessary and acknowledgement of source. Educational institutions must also conduct sensitisation seminars/ awareness programmes every semester on responsible conduct of research, project work, assignment and thesis.

The recommendations also propose higher education institutions to declare and implement the technology based mechanism using appropriate software to ensure that the work is free of plagiarism at the time of their submission.

Also, every faculty, researcher and M Phil / Ph D students should be provided with plagiarism detection tools for checking the content of their scripts.