(1) No University employee shall, except with the previous sanction of the University, on wholly or in part, or conduct or participate in the editing or management of, any newspaper or other periodical publication or 62 electronic media.
(2) No University employee shall except with the previous sanction of the University or the prescribed authority or except in the bona-fide discharge of his duties—
(a) publish a book himself or through a publisher, or contribute an article to a book or a compilation of articles; or
(b) participate in a public media or contribute an article or write a letter to a newspaper or periodical; either in his own name or anonymously or pseudonymously or in the name of any other person:
Provided that no such sanction shall be required—
(i) if such publication is through a publisher and is of a purely literary, artistic or scientific character; or
(ii) if such contribution, broadcast or writing is of a purely literary, artistic or scientific character:
Provided further that the University may withdraw at any time, the sanction so granted to a University employee, after affording reasonable opportunity of being heard, if, there are reasons to believe that the sanction is being misutilised.