Act Number: 16

Act Name: The Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970

Year: 1970

Enactment Date: 1970-04-02

Long Title: An Act to provide for the establishment of two independent Agricultural Universities in place of the Punjab Agricultural University constituted by the Punjab Agricultural University Act, 1961, and for matters consequential on, or connected with the establishment of those independent Agricultural Universities.

Ministry: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Department: Department of Agricultural Research and Education

Section 9: Powers of a corresponding University.
    Each corresponding University shall have the following powers, namely:--
         (a) to provide for graduate and post-graduate instructions in agriculture, veterinary and animal sciences, agricultural engineering, home sciences and other allied sciences and in such other branches of learning as the University may deem fit;
         (b) to make provision for instructions in applied fields, research and the dissemination of the findings of research and technical information through an extension education programme;
         (c) to institute degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions;
         (d) to hold examinations and to grant and confer degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions to and on persons who shall have--
             (i) pursued a prescribed course of study; or
             (ii) carried out research in the University, or in an institution recognised in this behalf by the University, under the prescribed conditions;
         (e) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the prescribed manner and under the prescribed conditions;
         (f) to provide lectures and instructions for field workers, village leaders and other persons not enrolled as regular students of the University and to grant certificates to them when deemed desirable;
         (g) to co-operate with other Universities and authorities in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine;
         (h) to institute teaching, research and extension education posts required by the University and to appoint persons to such posts;
         (i) to create administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointments thereto;
         (j) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships and prizes in accordance with the Statutes;
         (k) to institute and maintain residential accommodation for students of the University;
         (l) to supervise and control the residential accommodation and to regulate the discipline of the students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health and welfare;
         (m) to institute and receive such fees and other charges as may prescribed; and
         (n) to do all such acts and things, whether incidental to the powers aforesaid or not, as may be requisite in order to further the objects of the University.
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