(1) A person shall cease to be a member of any of the authorities of the University, if"
(a) he dies or is found to be of unsound mind or permanently invalid; or
(b) he is found to be bankrupt and insolvent; or
(c) he is convicted for an offence involving moral turpitude; or
(d) being a nominated member, his nomination is withdrawn by the nominating authority; or
(e) being ex officio member, he ceases to hold the relevant office; or
(f) being a nominated member, his membership is terminated by the Chancellor for any act of omission or commission, after affording him an opportunity of being heard; or
(g) being a nominated member, he resigns or absents himself from three consecutive meetings without prior written intimation.
(2) The term of the nominated members of the authorities of the University shall be three academic years including part of an academic year vacancies arising due to death or otherwise in the nominated membership of any authority of the University may be filledup by fresh nomination and the persons so nominated shall continue as members for the residuary period of the term.
(3) No act or proceeding of any authority, committee or body of the University shall be invalid merely by reason of the existence of a vacancy or vacancies among its members.
CHAPTER V Promotion of Literary, Visual and Performing Arts.
24. The University shall undertake schemes, programmes and Projects for promotion of excellence in Creativity, research, translation and inter- language interaction in respect of various languages such as Oriya, Sanskrit, Hindi and English.
(1) The University may confer the degree of Doctorate of Literature in Creative Writing in a language subject on a person for a Work of poetry fiction or drama as per the following procedure, namely:
(a) Awardees of the National Sahitya Academi or Orissa Sahitya Academi (for poetry/fiction/drama) or persons who have at least one earlier work which is certified by two awardees of the National Sahitya Academi to be of High standard of creativity shall be eligible to submit four copies of a published work of poetry/fiction drama, along with a brief commentary that may be interpretative/analytical/ critical, for consideration of the University.
(b) The Board shall thereupon appoint three members, from among the awardees of the National Sahitya Academi, other than those who had certified about the standard of creativity, or other eminent creative General Provisions in relation to authorities Promotion of excellence in Literary Arts 16 writers of national or international statute, to assess the said published work and furnish their reports.
(c) In case at least two of the examiners affirm that the said published original Work is a creative work constituting a significant contribu tion to literature, the Board may accept the said work for award of the degree of Doctor of Literature in the language concerned for Creative Writing and publish the result thereof.
(d) The Diploma in the specified form conferring the said degree shall be presented either at the annual Convocation or at a special cere mony organised by the University, as the case may be.