EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS:
(i) The Chancelion
(ii) The Vice-Chancellor;
(iii) The Minister of Education, Assam;
(iv) The Registrar;
(v) Academic Registrar;
(vi) The Controller of Examinations;
(vii) The Finance Officer;
(viii) The senior most Secretary in the Education /Higher) Department of the Government of Assam;
(ix) The Director of Higher Education, Assam;
(x) The Director of Technical Education, Assam;
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(xi) The Director of Medical Education, Assam;
(xii) The Director of Agriculture, Assam;
(xiii) The Director of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Assam;
(xiv) The Vice-Chancellors of the Gauhati University and the Dibrugarh University;
(xv) President and Secretary, Cotton College University Teachers’ Association;
(xvi) Two members nominated by the Executive Council;
(xvii)The Principal of the Constituent College;
(xviii) Two Heads of the Academic Departments of Cotton College University (to be selected by election);
OTHER MEMBERS:
(xix) Two principals of affiliated Colleges (to be elected by election);
(xx) Five teachers from affiliated colleges (to be elected by election);
(xxi) Two persons distinguished in Literature/ Law/ Medicine/ Engineering/Technology/ Commerce/ Public life nominated by the Chancellor;
(xxii) Seven representatives to be elected by the Post-Graduate Students of the University from amongst themselves:
Provided that a student to be so elected must have been student of the University for at least one year prior to his election:
Provided further that no student who has taken more than one year in excess of the period prescribed for the course of which he is a student would be eligible for such election.
(2) Save as otherwise provided and except the ex-officio members, all other members shall hold office for a period of three years from the date of their election or nomination, as the case may be :
Provided, that no person nominated or elected in his capacity as a member of a particular body or as a holder of a particular appointment shall be a member after he ceases to be a member of that body or holder of that appointment, as the case may be :
Provided further that any member elected or nominated under clause (xxi) shall hold office for a period of one year only from the date of his election or nomination, as the case may be.
He shall cease to be a member of the Court on his ceasing to be a student of the University.
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(3) When a person ceases to be a member of the Court, he shall cease to be a member of any of the authorities or committees of the University of which he may happen to be a member by virtue of the membership of the* Court.
(4) With the approval of the Court, the Vice-Chancellor may remove an elected or selected member.
Meeting of the Court Powers and Duties of the Court The Executive Council
20. The Court shall meet at least twice a year on dates to be fixed by the Vice-Chancellor. One of such meetings shall be held in January and shall be called the Annual General Meeting. The Court may also meet at such other times as it may, from time to time determine.
21. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Court shall have the following powers and duties, namely
(i) to review, from time to time, the broad policies and programmes, of the University and to suggest measures for the improvements and development of such policies, programmes, works and other affairs ;
(ii) to consider the annual report, the annual accounts, the audit report and the statement of the financial estimates, for the ensuing year, to approve the financial estimates, with such comments, if any, to express its views on the annual report and to suggest such measures as it may deem proper on the matters covered by them;
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(iii) to approve, with or without modifications, the Statutes ' submitted by the Executive Council:
Provided that before making, any modification to the Statutes submitted by the Executive Council, the Executive Council shall be given an opportunity to consider the modifications proposed by the Court and the Court shall consider the opinion expressed by the Executive Council on such modifications,