Section 4
Objects of the University.
The Sikkim University Act, 2006
About this Act
An Act to establish and incorporate a teaching and affiliating University in the State of Sikkim and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The objects of the University shall be to disseminate and advance
knowledge by providing instructional and research facilities in such branches of learning as it may deem
fit; to make provisions for integrated courses in humanities, natural and physical sciences, social sciences,
forestry and other allied disciplines in the educational programmes of the University; to take appropriate
measures for promoting innovations in teaching-learning process, inter-disciplinary studies and research;
to educate and train manpower for the development of the State of Sikkim; and to pay special attention to
the improvement of the social and economic conditions and welfare of the people of that State, their
intellectual, academic and cultural development.