(1) The Sponsoring Body shall establish an Endowment Fund of four crore rupees to be deposited in maximum four equal installments within a span of four years from the date of publication of this Act in the Odisha Gazette.
(2) The amount of Endowment Fund shall be invested and kept invested until the dissolution of the University in long term securities issued or guaranteed by the Government.
(3) Except in the event of dissolution of the University, no money can be transferred from the Endowment Fund under any circumstance for other purposes.
(4) Out of the income received from the Endowment Fund, the University may utilize such sum of amount as may be determined by the Government for the purpose of development of the University and the remaining amount shall be reinvested in the Endowment Fund.
5. The objective of the University shall be,
(i) to develop and disseminate knowledge in the field of public health, clinical research, technology and other fields of science and humanities for the advancement of mankind;
(ii) to develop, educate and conduct research in the fields of epidemiology, health services and health systems, behavioral health, health promotion, occupational and environmental health, health finance, economics and global health;
(iii) to disseminate, create and preserve knowledge and understanding by teaching, research, training and service and effective demonstration to influence building of a healthy society;
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(iv) to create centers of excellence for providing knowledge, education, training and research facilities of high order in the fields of public health and allied health sciences, technical and other related professional education;
(v) to create capability for upgrading science and technology infrastructure to the global standards;
(vi) to develop training facilities in higher education;
(vii) to provide for inter-relationships for national and global participation in the field of public health, other sciences, humanities and in other fields; and
(viii) to develop patterns of teaching in undergraduate and post graduate level on public health education in all its branches so as to set a high standard of such education.
6. No person shall be excluded from any office of the University or from membership of any of its authorities or from admission to any degree, diploma or other academic distinction or course of study on the sole ground of sex, race, creed, caste, class, place of birth, religious belief or political or other opinion:
Provided that for the purpose of admission of students, the University shall reserve seat for candidates of Odisha domicile at such percentum as may be decided by the Government.
7. The University shall obtain permission or recognition, as the case may be, from the concerned Regulatory Body for conferring graduate or postgraduate degree on public health education.
University opens to all irrespective of caste, creed, class, sex or opinion.
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8. Subject to the provisions of this Act and in conformity with the U.G.C norms and norms of other Regulatory Bodies, the University shall exercise the following powers and perform the functions, namely: –
(i) administer and manage the University and such centers for research, education and instruction as are necessary for the furtherance of the objects of the University;
(ii) provide for instruction, training and research in such branches of knowledge or learning pertaining to public health, environmental health, occupational health and its allied sciences, technology, humanities and other emerging fields and for their advancement and dissemination;
(iii) conduct innovative experiments in new methods and technologies in all fields of knowledge of public health in order to achieve international standards in such education, training and research;
(iv) prescribe courses and curricula for undergraduate, postgraduate and super specialization studies;
(v) hold examinations or grant such degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions and titles in undergraduate and post graduate public health education as may be laid down in the Regulations;
(vi) withdraw or cancel degrees, diplomas, certificates or other academic distinctions or titles in the manner as may be prescribed in the Regulations;
(vii) the University shall not undertake any programme under distance mode as per the guidelines prescribed;
(viii) confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner as may be prescribed in the Regulations;
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(ix) establish Off-campus centers or study centers as are in the opinion of the University, necessary for the furtherance of its objects;
(x) sponsor and undertake research in all aspects of public health;
(xi) collaborate or associate with other institutes, Universities and authorities within or outside India in conduct of research and higher education in the field of public health including such other purposes as may be prescribed;
(xii) develop and maintain relationship with teachers, researchers and domain experts in the fields of public health, allied health science and technology, humanities and such other fields for achieving the objectives of the University;
(xiii) regulate the expenditure and manage the finances and maintain accounts of the University;
(xiv) receive funds from industry, national and international organizations or any other sources as gifts, donations, benefactions, bequests, loans and by transfers of movable and immovable properties for the purposes and objects of the University;
(xv) establish, maintain and manage halls and hostels for the residence of students and staff;
(xvi) supervise and control the residence and regulate the discipline of students of the University and make arrangements for promoting their health and general welfare and cultural activities;
(xvii) fix, demand and receive or recover fees and such other charges as may be prescribed by the Regulations:
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Provided that the University while fixing the fee shall follow the fee structure of the norms and guidelines prescribed by Regulatory Bodies in adherence to the fee control regulations of the Government;
(xviii) award fellowships, scholarships, prizes and medals to worthy individuals and students;
(xix) purchase or take on lease or accept as gifts or otherwise any land or building or works which may be necessary or convenient for the purpose of the University and on such terms and conditions as it may think fit and proper and to construct or alter and maintain any such buildings or works;
(xx) sale, exchange, lease, mortgage or otherwise dispose of all or any portion of the properties of the University, movable or immovable, on such terms as it may think fit and consistent with the interest, activities and objectives of the University:
Provided that no portion of the land leased out by the Government shall be put to sale or otherwise transferred without prior approval of the Government.
(xxi) raise and borrow money on bonds, mortgages, promissory notes or other obligations or securities founded or based upon all or any of the properties and assets of the University or without any securities and upon such terms and conditions as it may think fit and to pay out of the funds of the University, all expenses incidental to the raising of money, and to repay and redeem any money borrowed;
(xxii) invest the funds of the University in or upon such securities and transpose any investment, from time to time, in such manner as it may deem fit;
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(xxiii) admit students for the courses offered by the University in the manner as may be prescribed by the Regulations;
(xxiv) create teaching, technical, administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointments thereto;
(xxv) regulate and enforce discipline among the employees of the University and to provide for such disciplinary measures as may be prescribed by the Regulations;
(xxvi) institute professorships, associate professorships, assistant professorships, lecturerships, instructorships, internships and any other teaching, academic or research posts and to prescribe qualifications and remunerations for them;
(xxvii) prescribe for a degree and the post graduate degree or diploma programmes with the approval of the Academic Council and the Board;
(xxviii) provide to the U.G.C. all the relevant information relating to the degree and post-graduate degree or diploma programmes including the curriculum structure, contents, teaching and learning process, examination and evaluation system and the eligibility criteria for admission of students in the pro-forma prescribed by the U.G.C. prior to starting of these programmes; and
(xxix) do such other acts and things as the University may consider necessary, conducive and incidental to the attainment or expansion of all or any of the objects of the University.
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CHAPTER III AUTHORITIES AND OFFICERS OF THE UNIVERSITY
9. The following shall be the authorities of the University, namely:
(a) the Board of Governors;
(b) the Academic Council;
(c) the Finance Committee;
(d) the Board of Examinations; and
(e) such other authorities as may be declared by the Regulations to be the authorities of the University.