The University shall have the following powers and duties, namely :-
[(i) to institute teaching and training in such branches of medicine, dentistry, nursing, para-medical and other disciplines as the University may think fit, and to make provisions for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in those branches;]
(ii) to institute and award degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions;
(iii) to admit students to the various courses of study of the University and to conduct examinations or tests and lay down conditions in respect thereof;
(iv) to hold examinations for, and to grant and confer degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions to, and, on persons, who-
(a) have pursued a course of study in the University, or
(b) have carried on research in the University;
(v) to confer honorary degrees or other academic distinctions in the manner and under conditions laid down in the Statutes;
(vi) to grant such diplomas to, and to provide such lectures and instructions for persons, not being students of the University, as the University may determine;
(vii) to co-operate or collaborate with other Universities and authorities in such manner, and for such purposes, as the University may determine;
(viii) to institute and award scholarships, fellowships (including travelling fellowship), studentships, stipend, medals and prizes in accordance with the Statutes and Ordinances;
(ix) to recognize for the purposes of admission to a course of study for a degree or diploma, as equivalent to its own degree any degree or diploma conferred by any other university or, as equivalent to the Intermediate examination of the Board of High School and Intermediate Education, Uttar Pradesh, any examination conducted by any other university or authority;
(x) to establish, maintain and administer institutes of research, hospitals. laboratories, libraries or other things necessary to carry out the objects of the University;
(xi) to establish, maintain and administer hostels and to recognize places of residence for students of the University;
(xii) to fix and collect fees and other charges in accordance with the Ordinances;
(xiii) to supervise and control the residents and to regulate the discipline of students of the University, the institutes and to make arrangements for promoting their health;
(xiv) to create teaching, administrative, ministerial and other necessary posts required by the University and to make appointments thereto;
(xv) to undertake publications of works of merit and research;
(xvi) to provide for management and treatment of the patients in its hospitals;
(xvii) to do all such acts and things, whether incidental to the powers aforesaid or not, as may be required in order to further the objects of the University;
[(xviii) to admit any Government or private Medical or Dental College or any such institution as is imparting education in Para Medical degree courses to the privileges of affiliation or recognition in such manner and on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed, to withdraw or curtail any such privileges and to guide and control the work of such college or institution.]