Under which section of the UGC Act, Inter-University Centres (IUCs) were established?

Inter-University Centres were established under Section 12(ccc) of the UGC Act, 1956, letting the Commission set up shared research facilities.

Section 12(B) instead governs the eligibility of colleges to receive central assistance.

Section 12(a) deals with the power to inquire into the financial needs of universities.

Section 12(h) concerns collecting information on university standards, not creating centres.

Centres such as IUAC and IUCAA grew from this provision to serve many universities together.

These centres give scholars access to costly instruments a single university could not maintain.