Subject to the provisions of this Act and such conditions as may be prescribed by the Statutes and the Ordinances, the University shall have the following powers, namely:-
(i) to provide for instruction and training in such branches of medicine and allied sciences, as may be considered suitable and to make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in health sciences, striving to maintain at all times highest possible standards of academic excellence;
(ii) to institute and award degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions for persons who shall have pursued approved courses of study in a University college or affiliated colleges unless exempted therefrom in the manner prescribed and shall have passed the prescribed examinations of the University, or shall have carried on research satisfactorily under conditions as may be prescribed;
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(iii) to develop, upgrade and start departments in medical specialities as may be required and to provide instruction for such courses of study as it may determine;
(iv) to hold examinations and to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions under conditions as may be prescribed;
(v) to prescribe conditions under which the award of any degree, title, diploma and other academic distinctions may be withheld;
(vi) to institute, maintain and administer University colleges, hospitals and laboratories and institutes of research, libraries or other institutions, necessary to carry out the objects of the University.
(vii) to affiliate or recognise colleges and institutions and to withdraw such affiliation or recognition;
(viii) to institute, suspend or abolish University Professorships, Associate Professorships, Readerships, Assistant Professorships, Lecturerships and other teaching posts in the University and to make suitable appointments thereto;
(ix) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, studentships, stipends, medals and prizes;
(x) to establish, maintain and administer hostels, to recognise hostels not managed by the University and to suspend or withdraw such recognition therefrom;
(xi) to exercise such control over the students of the University as to secure their health, well being and discipline and to exercise through the affiliated colleges control for similar purposes over the students of affiliated colleges;
(xii) to manage and control all immovable properties transferred to the University by the Government for the purpose of this Act;
(xiii) to accept, hold and manage any endowments, donations or funds which may become vested in it for the purposes of the University by grant, testamentary disposition or otherwise, and to invest such endowments, donations or funds in any manner that the University may deem fit:
Provided that no donation from a foreign country, foreign foundation or any person in such country, foundation shall be accepted by the University save with the approval of the Government;
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(xiv) to borrow money with or without security for such purposes as may be approved by the Government from the Central Government, the University Grants Commission or other incorporated bodies subject to the provisions of this Act;
(xv) to fix fees and demand and collect such fees as may be prescribed;
(xvi) to undertake publication of works of merit and research pertaining to health sciences;
(xvii) to organise, regulate and control University union;
(xviii) to maintain an Employment Bureau;
(xix) to co-operate with other Universities and academic institutions;
(xx) to establish and maintain University libraries, research station, museums and press and publication bureau;
(xxi) to establish research posts and to appoint suitable persons to such posts;
(xxii) to establish suitable residential accommodation to the staff of the University to the extent feasible;
(xxiii) to award prizes and medals to deserving students, on the basis of approved endowments;
(xxiv) generally to do such other acts or make such other provisions as may be deemed necessary or desirable to further the objects of the University.