Section 7
University open to all classes, castes and creed.
The Tezpur University Act, 1993
About this Act
An Act to establish and incorporate a teaching and residential University in the State of Assam at Tezpur and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The University shall be open to persons of
either sex and of whatever caste, creed, race or class, and it shall not be lawful for the University to adopt
or impose on any person, any test whatsoever of religious belief or profession in order to entitle him to be
appointed as a teacher of the University or to hold any other office therein or be admitted as a student in
the University or to graduate thereat or to enjoy or exercise any privilege thereof;
Provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent the University from making special provisions for the employment or admission of women, physically handicapped or of persons belonging to the weaker sections of the society and, in particular, of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.
Provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent the University from making special provisions for the employment or admission of women, physically handicapped or of persons belonging to the weaker sections of the society and, in particular, of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.