Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Board shall have the following powers and functions, namely-
(a) to prescribe courses of instruction for recognised institutions in such branches of Secondary Education as it may think fit ;
1[(b) to take steps to co-ordinate Secondary Education with University Education on the one side and Primary or Basic Education on the other and if necessary for this purpose, to take such steps as it deems proper for preparing syllabi and text books for primary and middle school classes.]
(c) to make regulations for the purpose of prescribing and recommending any book as a text-book or a handbook and to undertake compilation and publication of such books ;
(d) to make regulations for imposing penalties for acts of misconduct of
1. Substituted vide Orissa Act 6 of 1979 6 Students, teachers, examiners, examinees, printers of text-books or question papers and of persons connected with an examination of the Board ;
(e) to conduct examinations based on such courses as may be prescribed;
(f) to admit candidates to its examinations in accordance with regulations;
(g) to publish the results of its examinations;
(h) to grant diplomas or certificates to successful candidates;
(i) to recommend to Government in respect of teachers and other employees of Secondary Schools or other institutions controlled by it, conditions of service such as appointment, promotion, punishment, 1[appeal against order of punishment], transfer, pay, allowances, provident fund, pension and gratuity, if any, age of superannuation, etc., and to incorporate such conditions as approved by Government in the regulations;
(j) to recommend to Government scales of pay or allowances if and wh en required by the Government for such of the employees of the Industrial Institutes, Agricultural Farms, Vocational Institutes, Animal Husbandry Centres or Fish Culture Institutes or Laboratories, who may be appointed as part-time teachers or instructors in the Secondary School or Institutions duly recognised by the Board;
(k) to establish, control, regulate or administer new Secondary Schools or Post-Basic Schools subject to approval of the State Government ;
(l) to bring about practical co-ordination between State-owned Industrial Institutes, Factories or Workshops or Vocational Institutes and the Secondary Schools, also between Industrial Establishments and Secondary or Teclnical Institutions by way of providing systematic practical training which will be complementary to the theoretical instructions at the schools or institutions ;
(m) to bring about practical co-ordination between the State Agricultural Farms either model or experimental, or laboratories, Sylviculture Farms or Nurseries or State Animal Husbandry Centres, Poultry Farms, Dairy Farms or Laboratories or Fish Culture Institutes or Laboratories and the seconds Schools or Institutions either general, industrial vocational or technical ;
(n) to provide for the use of land, buildings, implements, instruments, tools and plants, etc., on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between the Board and parties, Farms, Departments, institutes or institutions concerned subject to the approval of the State Government ;
(o) to frame regulations regarding the management of Secondary Schools such its constitution or reconstitution of Managing Committees dissolution thereof when and where necessary, to take over the period as may be considered necessary, to assume the ownership of properties of such institutions which would be under its direct control;
(p) to call for reports from the Department of Public Instruction on the
1. Inserted vide Orissa Act 23 of 1961 7 conditions of recognised institutions or of institutions applying for recognition and to direct inspection of such institutions ;
(q) to recognise institutions for the purposes of admitting them to the privileges of the Board including examinations conducted by it ;
(r) to adopt measures to promote the intellectual, physical, moral and social welfare of the students in recognised institutions and to supervise and control the conditions of their residence, health and discipline;
(s) to organise and provide for lectures, demonstrations, educational exhibitions and to take other measures such as provision of refreshers courses for teachers as may be necessary to promote the standard of Secondary Education;
(t) to institute end award scholarships, medals and prizes according to a scheme or schemes framed by the Board and approved by the Government ;
(u) to demand and receive such fees as may be prescribed ;
(v) to submit annual accounts and balance sheet together with the annual report of the Board to the State Government for audit and to publish the audited accounts and balance sheet in the Gazette ; '
(w) to submit to the State Government its views on any matter with which it is concerned ;
(x) to co-operate with other authorities in such manner and for such purposes as the Board may determine ;
(y) to take measures necessary to provide military education, opportunities for organised social service and such other activities as the Board considers necessary to inculcate in the minds of students enrolled in recognised institutions a high sense of citizenship and to train end prepare them to discharge their civic obligations eifectively ;
(z) to furnish to the State Government such, reports, returns and statements as may be prescribed by regulations and such other information relating to any matter under the control of the Board as the State Government may require; and (z-i) to do such other acts and things as may be requisite in order to further the object of the Board as e Body constituted to regulate end supervise Secondary Education.