With respect to the University Grants Commission, consider the following statements:

UGC was established as a statutory body in November 1956 by the UGC Act 1956.

On the recommendation of the Sargeant report University Grants Committee was established in 1945.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Question

Recently, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued guidelines for engaging \"Professors of Practice\" or distinguished experts from various fields at higher education institutions.
The Sargeant report recommended the formation of a University Grants Committee, which was established in 1945 to oversee the work of the three Central Universities of Aligarh, Banaras, and Delhi.
The University Education Commission was established (in 1948) under the chairmanship of Dr. S Radhakrishnan proposed reorganising the University Grants Committee along the lines of the University Grants Commission of the United Kingdom, with a full-time Chairman and other members.
As a result, the UGC was formally inaugurated in 1953 by Maulana Abul Kalam, the then Minister of Education, Natural Resources, and Scientific Research.
However, the UGC was established as a statutory body in November 1956by the UGC Act 1956.
It is set up by the Ministry of Education\'s Department of Higher Education.
A proposal to replace it with another new regulatory body called the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) is under consideration by the Government of India.

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Both 1 & 2

Recently, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued guidelines for engaging \"Professors of Practice\" or distinguished experts from various fields at higher education institutions.
The Sargeant report recommended the formation of a University Grants Committee, which was established in 1945 to oversee the work of the three Central Universities of Aligarh, Banaras, and Delhi.
The University Education Commission was established (in 1948) under the chairmanship of Dr. S Radhakrishnan proposed reorganising the University Grants Committee along the lines of the University Grants Commission of the United Kingdom, with a full-time Chairman and other members.
As a result, the UGC was formally inaugurated in 1953 by Maulana Abul Kalam, the then Minister of Education, Natural Resources, and Scientific Research.
However, the UGC was established as a statutory body in November 1956by the UGC Act 1956.
It is set up by the Ministry of Education\'s Department of Higher Education.
A proposal to replace it with another new regulatory body called the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) is under consideration by the Government of India.

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