L. C. BILL No. VIII 2026.

A BILL

to amend the Maharashtra Private Skills Universities

(Establishment and Regulation) Act, 2024.

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Maharashtra Private Skills

Universities (Establishment and Regulation) Act, 2024, for the purposes

hereinafter appearing; it is hereby enacted in the Seventy-seventh Year of the

Republic of India as follows:-

1.  This Act may be called the Maharashtra Private Skills Universities

(Establishment and Regulation) (Amendment) Act, 2026.

Mah.

XXXV of

2024.

Short title.

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In pursuance of clause (3) of article 348 of the Constitution of India, the following translation in

English of the Maharashtra Private Skills Universities (Establishment and Regulation) (Amendment)

Bill, 2026 (L. C. Bill No. VIII of 2026), introduced in the Maharashtra Legislative Council on the

24th March 2026, is hereby published under the authority of the Governor.

By order and in the name of the Governor of Maharashtra,

SATISH WAGHOLE,

Secretary (Legislation) to Government,

Law and Judiciary Department.

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2.  In the SCHEDULE appended to the Maharashtra Private Skills

Universities (Establishment and Regulation) Act, 2024, in Part II, in the table,

the following entries shall be inserted, namely :—

“1.

Pasha Patel SkillTech University,

Lodga, situated at post Lodga,

Gat No. 238, Phoenix

Educational Campus,

Taluka Ausa,

District Latur-413 531.

Phoenix Foundation Sanstha,

Latur, a society registered under

the Societies Registration Act, 1860

(21 of 1860), bearing registration

No. MAH/18584/08/Latur, having its

registered office at Vitthal Housing

Society, Near Church, Nanded

Road, Latur-413 512.

2.

FUEL Skill Tech and

Entrepreneurship University,

Pune, situated at Sector A4,

Survey No. 16/1/1, Forest Trails

Township, Paranjape Schemes,

Paud Road, Bhugaon, Pune,

Maharashtra-412 115.

FUEL (Friends Union for

Energising Lives), a Public Trust

registered under the Maharashtra

Public Trusts Act (XXIX of 1950),

bearing registration No. E4913

(Pune) having its registered office

at Sector A4, Survey No. 16/1/1,

Forest Trails Township, Paranjape

Schemes, Paud Road, Bhugaon,

Pune, Maharashtra-412 115.”.

Amendment

of Schedule of

Mah. XXXV of

2024.

Mah.

XXXV of

2024.

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STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

The Maharashtra Private Skills Universities (Establishment and

Regulation) Act, 2024 (Mah. XXXV of 2024) provides for establishment,

incorporation and regulation of self-financed private skills universities for the

development and advancement of skills education in the State of Maharashtra.

2.  Section 6 of the said Act provides that the Government may, after

considering the report submitted by the Verification Committee under sub-

section (4) of section 5, if satisfied that the sponsoring body has complied

with the provisions of section 5, permit the establishment of a private skills

university, by inclusion of the name, location and headquarter of the private

skills university and its sponsoring body in Part II of the Schedule, by amending

the Schedule by enacting a law by the State Legislature.

3.  The Government, after considering the report submitted by the

Verification Committee under sub-section (4) of section 5, is satisfied that the

sponsoring bodies Phoenix Foundation Sanstha, Latur and FUEL (Friends

Union for Energising Lives) has complied with the provisions of section 5 for

establishment of private skills universities by the name of “Pasha Patel Skill

Tech University, Lodga” and “ FUEL Skill Tech and Entrepreneurship University,

Pune”, respectively.

4.  It is, therefore, considered expedient to amend Part II of the Schedule

appended to the Maharashtra Private Skills Universities (Establishment and

Regulation) Act, 2024, to permit establishment of the said proposed private

skills universities and to include therein the name, location and headquarters

of the said universities and the sponsoring bodies, by enacting a law.

5.  The Bill seeks to achieve the above objectives.

MANGALPRABHAT LODHA,

Mumbai,

Minister for Skills, Employment,

dated the 23rd March 2026.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

ON BEHALF OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, STATIONERY AND PUBLICATION, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY DIRECTOR,

RUPENDRA DINESH MORE, PRINTED AT GOVERNMENT CENTRAL PRESS, 21-A, NETAJI SUBHASH ROAD, CHARNI ROAD,

MUMBAI 400 004 AND PUBLISHED AT DIRECTORATE OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, STATIONERY AND PUBLICATIONS,

21-A, NETAJI SUBHASH ROAD, CHARNI ROAD, MUMBAI 400 004. EDITOR : DIRECTOR, RUPENDRA DINESH MORE.