E. GAZETTE NOTIFICATION REGARDING AMENDMENT IN BOG IKGPTU PUNJAB GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA), APRIL 16, 2015 (CHTR 26, 1937 SAKA)
PART I GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS, PUNJAB NOTIFICATION The 15th April, 2015 No. 15-Leg. / 2015.-The following Act of the Legislature of the State ofPunjab received the assent of the Governor of Punjab on the 10th Day ofApril, 2015, is hereby published for general information:- THE I.K. GUJRAL PUNJAB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2015 (Punjab Act No. 15 of 2015) AN ACT further to amend the I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University Act, 1996.
BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the SixtysixthYear of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. (1) This Act may be called the I.K. Gujral Punjab TechnicalUniversity (Amendment) Act, 2015.
Short title and commencement.
(2) It shall come into force on and with effect from the date of itspublication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University Act, 1996, (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), for section 14, the followingsection shall be substituted, namely:- Substitution of section 14 of Punjab Act 1 of
1997.
"14. (1) The Board shall consist of a Chairman, a Vice-Chairman, Constitutionof the BoardofGover nors.
seven ex-officio members and six nominated members.
(2) The Chief Secretary of the State of Punjab shall be the Chairman.
(3) The Principal Secretary to Government of Punjab, Department ofTechnical Education and Industrial Training shall be the Vice- Chairman.
(4) (a) The Chairman shall ordinarily preside over the meetings ofthe Board.
(b) The Chancellor shall preside over the convocation of the University and if he is unable to preside over the same then the Chairman shall preside over the convocation.
(5) (a) The Chancellor shall nominate the following members of theBoard for a period of three years and they shall be eligible for renomination for another term of the same period, namely:- (1.i.i) two members from amongst the eminent Industrialists;
(1.i.ii) two members from amongst the eminent technologists;
(1.i.iii)one principal of the college by rotation from amongst thecolleges affiliated with the University; and (1.i.iv)one head of the department by rotation from amongst theheads of the departments of the University.
(b) The following shall be the Ex-officio members, namely:-
(i) Vice-Chancellor, I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University,Jalandhar;
(ii) Vice-Chancellor, Maharaja Ranjit Singh State TechnicalUniversity, Bathinda;
(iii) Secretary to Government of Punjab, Department of Finance;
(iv) Director, Technical Education and Industrial Training, Punjab;
(v) Chairman of the North-West Committee, All India Councilfor Technical Education, Chandigarh
(vi) President of the Confederation of Indian Industry or hisnominee; and
(vii) Director of Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar.
(6) When a vacancy occurs in the Board due to resignation or death ofa member or otherwise, the same shall be filled up in the manner provided in sub-section (5):
Provided that the person who fills such vacancy shall hold office for the un-expired portion of the term for which the person in whose place he becomes a member would have otherwise continued in office.
(7) The Board shall be the supreme authority of the University andshall have the following powers and functions, namely:-
(a) to superintend and control the affairs of the University;
(b) to recommend the emoluments and terms and conditions of serviceof the Vice-Chancellor;
(c) to approve academic programmes;
(d) to frame and approve regulations;
(e) to create Departments / Centres / Schools / Boards of studies forrunning various academic programmes;
(f) to create posts of faculty and staff positions in the University;
(g) to approve the University budget;
(h) to administer and control the funds of the University and to authorizethe opening and operation of the Bank Accounts;
(i) to accept, transfer and otherwise control the moveable, immoveableand intellectual property of the University;
(j) to decide upon the form and use of common seal of the University;
(k) to appoint such committees as may be required for the efficientfunctioning of the University;
(l) to approve the emoluments and terms and conditions of service ofthe faculty and staff of the University; and
(m) to approve the performance of works and services on contract.
(8) An annual meeting of the Board shall be held on a date to be fixedby the Vice-Chancellor in consultation with the Chairman. In such annualmeeting, report of working of University during the previous year togetherwith the statement of the receipts and expenditure, the balance sheet andfinancial estimates shall be presented.
(9) Special meeting of the Board may be convened by the Chairman as and when necessary.
(10) The members of the Board shall be entitled to such allowances, ifany, and the sitting fee from the University as may be provided in the regulations,but no member other than the persons referred to in sub-clauses (iii) and (iv)of clause (a) and sub-clause (i) of clause (b) of sub-section (5) of this sections shall be entitled to any salary.
(11) Five members, including the Chairman, shall constitute the quorum at any meeting of the Board.
(12) In case of difference of opinion amongst the members, the opinionof the majority shall prevail.
(13) Each member of the Board, including the Chairman, shall have onevote. If there shall be equality of votes on any question to be determined bythe Board, the Chairman shall, in addition, has power to exercise a castingvote.
(14) Every meeting of the Board shall be presided over by the Chairmanand, in his absence the Vice- Chairman shall preside over the meeting.
(15) Any resolution, except such which is placed before the meeting ofthe Board, may be adopted by circulation amongst all its members. Anyresolution so circulated and adopted by a majority of the members, who havegiven their approval or disapproval of such resolution, shall be as effectualand binding as if such resolution had been adopted in a meeting of the Board:
Provided that for any decision by such circulation at least four membersof the Board must support the resolution in writing.
3. In the principal Act, after section 14 so substituted, the following section shall be inserted, namely:- "14-A. (1) The State Government shall have the powers to make a Insertion of section 14-A in Punjab Act 1 of
1997.
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reference to the University with regard to any matter of policy or in respect of any act done by the University in contravention with the provisions of this Act or the regulations made there under.
(2) The University shall report to the State Government about the action,if any, as it proposes to take or has taken upon the reference made under subsection(1), and shall submit an explanation to the State Government, if it failsto take action
(3) If, the University fails to take action on such reference to the satisfaction of the State Government within a reasonable time, it may after considering explanation submitted by the University, issue such directions consistent with this Act, as the State Government may consider necessary and the University shall comply with such directions.
(4) The State Government may, at any time, arrange for an inspection or enquiry into the affairs of the University by such authority or person as it may specify, to satisfy about the proper and effective functioning of the University and also upon any matter connected with the administration and finances of the University.
(5) The University may authorize any person to represent it on the inspection or enquiry referred to in sub-section (4).
(6) On receipt of the report of inspection or enquiry referred to in subsection(4), the State Government may examine the same and give such directions, as it may consider necessary, to the University.
(7) The Vice-Chancellor shall within a period of thirty days from the date of receipt of the directions given under sub-section (6), send an intimation to the State Government about the action taken by the University in pursuance of the said directions.
(8) On the expiry of the period specified in sub-section (7), the State Government may, after considering the intimation, if any, received from the Vice-Chancellor, issue such directions to the University, as it may consider necessary and the University shall comply with such directions.
H.P.S. MAHAL, Secretary to Government of Punjab, Department of Legal and Legislative Affairs.