Research exemption approval requires separate accounts and annual scientific-activity returns, establishing conditional institutional recognition. Exemption under section 35(1)(ii) is approved for Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College, Allahabad, for research in natural and applied sciences (excluding agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries and medicines), subject to maintaining a separate account for research receipts and submitting an annual return of scientific research activities to the prescribed authority by 30 April each year; the notification is effective from 1 April 1976.