Section 8:
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 establish such special centres and specialised laboratories and such other units for research
and instruction as are necessary for the furtherance of its objects;
(iii) to plan and prescribe courses of study for degrees, diplomas, certificates or for any other
purpose;
(iv) to grant, subject to such conditions as the University may determine, diplomas or certificates
and confer degrees or other academic distinctions on the basis of examinations, evaluation or any
other method of testing and to withdraw any such diplomas, certificates, degrees or other academic
distinctions for good and sufficient cause;
(v) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner prescribed by the Statutes;
(vi) to organise and to undertake open learning programmes, extramural studies, training and
extension services;
(vii) to institute Chairs, principalships, professorships, readerships and lecturerships and other
teaching and academic positions, required by the University and to appoint persons to such Chairs,
Principalships, Professorships, Readerships and lecturerships and other teaching and academic
positions;
(viii) to appoint visiting professors, Emeritus professors, consultants, scholars and such other
persons who may contribute to the advancement of the objects of the University;
(ix) to recognise persons as Professors, Readers or Lecturers or otherwise as teachers of the
University;
(x) to create administrative and other posts as the University may deem necessary from time to
time and to make appointments thereto;
(xi) to lay down conditions of service of all categories of employees, including their code of
conduct;
(xii) to establish and maintain campuses, Centres, Regional Centres as may be determined from
time to time;
(xiii) to admit to its privileges institutions situated within its jurisdiction as the University
institutions and to withdraw all or any of those privileges in accordance with such conditions as may
be prescribed by the Statutes;
(xiv) to co-operate or collaborate or associate with any other University or authority or institution
of higher learning or any other public or private body, having in view the promotion of purposes and
objects similar to those of the University, in such manner as may be prescribed and for such purposes
as may be determined or agreed upon by the University;
(xv) to determine standards of admission, including examination, evaluation or any other method
of testing, to the University, and the institutions maintained by or admitted to the privileges of the
University;
(xvi) to demand and receive payment of fees and other charges as may be prescribed;
(xvii) to establish Halls and to recognise, guide, supervise and control Halls not maintained by the
University and other accommodation for students, and to withdraw any such recognition;
(xviii) to make arrangements for promoting health and general welfare of students and employees
of the University;
(xix) 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;
(xx) to institute and award Fellowships, Scholarships, Studentships and prizes;
(xxi) to receive benefactions, donations and gifts in accordance with the regulations made by the
Governing Board as per norms of the SAARC and to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of any
property, movable or immovable, including trust and endowment properties, for the purposes or
objects of the University and to invest funds in such manner as it deems fit;
(xxii) to borrow, with the approval of the Governing Board, on the security of the University
property, money for purposes of the University;
(xxiii) to recognise for any purpose, either in whole or in part, any institution or members or
students thereof on such terms and conditions as may, from time to time, be prescribed and to
withdraw such recognition;
(xxiv) to enter into any agreement for the incorporation of any other institution in the University
and for taking its rights, properties and liabilities and for any other purpose not repugnant to this Act;
(xxv) to make provision for research and advisory services and for that purpose to enter into such
arrangements with other institutions or bodies as it may deem necessary;
(xxvi) to provide for the printing, reproduction and publication of research and other work which
may be issued by the University;
(xxvii) to exercise such other powers accorded to it under the Agreement; and
(xxviii) to do all such other acts as may be necessary, incidental or conducive to the promotion of
all or any of the objects of the University.