Abstract
Though the existence of plagiarism was found thousands of years ago, it has been a major concern in the academic and scientific research even today. The advancements in the printing technology and increased use of internet has led plagiarism related issues to a significant level. This is more challenging and prevalent in the developing countries like India where there are limited resources to detect the plagiarism contents in any body or structure of knowledge. However, the University Grants Commission (UGC) under the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) Govt of India (GoI) had launched an anti - plagiarism checker software “Urkund†that has been provided to 900 universities in the country for free of cost. Also, the UGC circulated its Regulations pertaining to Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Education to all the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the nation. As per UGC regulations, plagiarism means the practice of taking someone else’s work or an idea and passing those as one’s own. There are many forms of plagiarism which ruins the academic integrity and morality. Direct Plagiarism, Self-plagiarism, Mosaic Plagiarism and Accidental Plagiarism are some of the most common forms of plagiarism.
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