Section 6:
Powers of the 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 promote the study of the religions, philosophy and culture of India;
(iii) 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;
(iv) to organise and to undertake extra-mural studies, extension services and other measures for
the promotion of adult education;
(v) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner prescribed by the Statutes;
(vi) to provide, instruction, including correspondence and such other courses, to such persons as
are not members of the University, as it may determine;
(vii) to institute Principalships, Professorships, Readerships, Lecturerships and other teaching or
academic posts required by the University and to appoint persons to such Principalships,
Professorships, Readerships, Lecturerships or other posts;
(viii) to create administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointments thereto;
(ix) to appoint persons working in any other University or organisation as teachers of the
University for a specified period;
(x) to co-operate, collaborate or associate with any other University or authority or institution in
such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine;
(xi) to establish and maintain Schools, Institutions and such Centres, Specialised Laboratories or
other units for research and instructions as are, in the opinion of the University, necessary for the
furtherance of its objects;
(xii) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, studentships, medals and prizes;
(xiii) to establish and maintain Halls for the students of the University;
(xiv) to make provision for research and advisory services, and for that purpose to enter into such
arrangements with other institutions or bodies as the University may deem necessary;
(xv) to declare a Centre, an Institution, a Department, a School as an autonomous Centre,
Institution, Department or school, as the case may be, in accordance with the Statutes;
(xvi) to determine standards for admission into the University, which may include examination,
evaluation or any other method of testing;
(xvii) to demand and receive payment of fees and other charges;
(xviii) to supervise the residences of the students of the University and to make arrangements for
promoting their health and general welfare;
(xix) to make special arrangements in respect of woman students as the University may consider
desirable;
(xx) to regulate and enforce discipline among the employees and students of the University and
take such disciplinary measures in this regard as may be deemed by the University to be necessary;
(xxi) to make arrangements for promoting the health and general welfare of the employees of the
University;
(xxii) to receive donations and to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of any property, movable or
immovable, including trust and endowment properties for the purposes of the University;
(xxiii) to borrow, with the approval of the Central Government, on the security of the property of
the University, money for the purposes of the University;
(xxiv) to do all such other acts and things as may be necessary, incidental or conducive to the
attainment of all or any of the objects of the University.