Section 5:
Powers of University.
The University shall have the following powers, namely:--
(i) to provide for instruction in such branches of learning as the University may, from time to
time, determine and to make provisions for research and for the advancement and dissemination of
knowledge;
(ii) to grant, subject to such conditions as the University may determine, diplomas or certificates
to, and confer degrees or other academic distinctions on the basis of examinations, evaluation or any
other method of testing on, persons, and to withdraw any such diplomas, certificates, degrees or other
academic distinctions for good and sufficient cause;
(iii) to organise and to undertake extra-mural studies, training and extension services;
(iv) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner prescribed by the Statutes;
(v) to provide facilities through the distance education system to such persons as it may
determine;
(vi) to institute Directorships, Principalships, Associateships, Professorships, Readerships,
Lecturerships and other teaching or academic positions, required by the University and to appoint
persons to such Directorships, Principalships, Associateships, Professorships, Readerships,
Lecturerships and other teaching or academic positions;
(vii) to recognise an institution of higher learning for such purposes as the University may
determine and to withdraw such recognition;
(viii) to recognise persons for imparting instructions in any College or Institution recognised or
maintained by the University;
(ix) to appoint persons working in any other University or educational institution as teachers of
the University for a specified period;
(x) to create administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointments thereto;
(xi) to co-operate or collaborate or associate with any other University or authority or Institution
of higher learning in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine;
(xii) to establish, with the prior approval of the Central Government, such Campuses, special
centres, specialised laboratories or other units for research and instruction as are, in the opinion of the
University, necessary for the furtherance of its objects;
(xiii) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, studentships, medals and prizes;
(xiv) to establish and maintain Colleges, Institutions and Halls;
(xv) to make provision for research and advisory services and for that purpose to enter into such
arrangements with other institutions, industrial or other organisations, as the University may deem
necessary;
(xvi) to organise and conduct refresher courses, workshops, seminars and other programmes for
teachers, evaluators and other academic staff;
(xvii) to make special arrangements in respect of the residence and teaching of women students as
the University may deem necessary;
(xviii) to appoint on contract or otherwise visiting professors, Emeritus Professors, Consultants,
Scholars and such other persons who may contribute to the advancement of the objects of the
University;
(xix) to confer autonomous status on a College or an Institution or a Department, as the case may
be, in accordance with the Statutes;
(xx) to admit to its privileges Colleges and Institutions located in India not maintained by the
University; to withdraw all or any of those privileges in accordance with such conditions as may be
prescribed by the Statutes; to recognise, guide, supervise, and control Halls not maintained by the
University and other accommodation for students, and to withdraw any such recognition;
(xxi) to determine standards of admission to the University which may include examination,
evaluation or any other method of testing;
(xxii) to demand and receive payment of fees and other charges;
(xxiii) to supervise the residences of the students of the University and to make arrangements for
promoting their health and general welfare;
(xxiv) to lay down conditions of service of all categories of employees, including their code of
conduct;
(xxv) to regulate and enforce discipline among the students and the employees and to take such
disciplinary measures in this regard as may be deemed by the University to be necessary;
(xxvi) to make arrangements for promoting the health and general welfare of the employees;
(xxvii) to receive benefactions, donations and gifts and to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of
with the previous approval of the Central Government, any property, movable or immovable,
including trust and endowment properties for the purposes of the University;
(xxviii) to borrow, with the prior approval of the Central Government, on the security of the
property of the University, money for the purposes of the University;
(xxix) to establish such number of Regional Centres in various tribal areas of the country as are, in
the opinion of the University, necessary for the furtherance of its objects;
(xxx) to make special provisions for the promotion of educational, economic interests and welfare
of the members belonging to the Scheduled Tribes by providing adequate percentage of seats in the
matters of admission, of posts in the matter of employment and other benefits;
(xxxi) to do all such other acts and things as may be necessary, incidental or conducive to the
attainment of all or any of its objects.