(i) to make provision for imparting education in the humanities, sciences, learned professions and such other branches of learning and courses of study as it may think fit and to make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge;
(ii) to promote the academic excellence, innovation, and research in higher education which shall focus on advanced academic frameworks in contemporary and future-oriented disciplines;
Incorporation of the University.
Powers and duties of the University.
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(iii) to make provision for study and research on the life and teachings of Shri Guru Teg Bahadur and other Sikh Gurus and their cultural and religious impact in the context of Indian and world civilizations;
(iv) to promote Punjabi studies, to provide for research in Punjabi language and literature and to undertake measures for the development of Punjabi language, literature and culture;
(v) to hold examinations and to grant and confer degrees, diplomas and other distinctions to and on persons who,–
(a) shall have pursued a course of study in the University or in one of its institutions, unless exempted therefrom in the manner prescribed by the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations, and shall have passed the examination prescribed by the University; or
(b) shall have carried on research under conditions prescribed by the Ordinances and Regulations;
(vi) to confer honorary degrees in the manner laid down by the Statutes;
(vii) to institute professorships, readerships, lectureships and any other teaching posts required by the University and to appoint persons to such professorships, readerships, lecturerships and other posts;
(viii) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, studentships, exhibitions and prizes in accordance with the Statutes and Ordinances;
(ix) to institute and maintain Halls and Hostels;
(x) to supervise and control the residence and discipline of the students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health and general welfare;
(xi) to organize University laboratories, libraries, museums and other equipment for teaching and research;
(xii) to demand and receive such fees and other charges as may be prescribed by the Ordinances;
(xiii) to hold and manage trusts and endowments which may be created in favour of the University;
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(xiv) to institute and manage,-
(a) Printing and Publication Departments;
(b) University Extension Boards;
(c) Information Bureau; and
(d) Employment Bureau;
(xv) to make special provision for the spread of University education among classes and communities which are educationally backward;
(xvi) to make provision for,-
(a) the maintenance of National Cadet Corps or other similar training corps;
(b) physical and military training;
(c) students associations; and
(d) sports and athletic clubs;
(xvii) to prepare, translate and publish, and to assist other bodies and individuals in the preparation, translation and publication of books, journals, periodicals and any other material;
(xviii) to create administrative, ministerial and other necessary posts and to make appointments thereto;
(xix) to receive gifts, donations or benefactions from the Government and to receive bequests, donations and transfers of moveable or immoveable property from testators, donors or transferors, as the case may be;
(xx) to frame Statutes, Ordinances or Regulations for all or any of the aforesaid purposes; and to alter, modify or rescind the same; and
(xxi) to do all such other acts and things, whether incidental to the powers aforesaid or not, as may be requisite in order to further the objects of the University.
5. (1) The State Government may, by notification, specify the limits of the area in which the University shall exercise its powers.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, no educational institution beyond the limits of the area specified under sub-section (1) shall be associated with or admitted to any Territorial exercise of powers.
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(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, any educational institution situated within the limits of the area specified under sub-section (1) shall, with effect from such date, as may be notified in this behalf by the State Government, be deemed to be associated with and admitted to the privileges of the University and shall cease to be associated in any way with, or be admitted to any privileges of the State Universities and different dates may be appointed for different institutions:
Provided that,-
(a) any student of any such institution affiliated to the State University before the said date, who was studying for any degree and diploma examination of the said University shall be permitted to complete his course in preparation therefor and the University shall hold for such students examinations in accordance with the curriculum of study in force in the State University for such period as may be prescribed by the Statutes or Ordinances or Regulations; and
(b) any such student may, until any such examination is held by the University, be admitted to the examination of the State University and be conferred the degree, diploma or any other privileges of that University for which he qualifies on the result of such examination.
6. (1) No person shall be excluded from any office of the University or from membership of any of its authorities or from admission to any degree, diploma, or other academic distinction or course of study on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them:
Provided that the University may maintain any college or institution exclusively for women either for education, instruction or residence or, reserve for women or members of classes and communities which are educationally backward, places for purposes of admission as students in any college or institution maintained or controlled by the University.
(2) It shall not be lawful for the University to impose on any person any test whatsoever relating to religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth in order to entitle him to be admitted as a teacher or to hold any office in the University or to qualify for any degree, diploma or other academic distinction or to enjoy or exercise any privileges of the University or benefaction thereof.
University open to all irrespective of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth.
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