(1) The Director shall be Chief Executive Officer of the Institute. He shall preside over the meetings of the Standing Committees as well as Ad-hoc committees.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions contained in sub-section (1), the Director shall,- a. Exercise eneral supervision and control over the affairs of the Institute and its affiliates;
b. Ensure implementation of the decisions of the authorities of Institute;
c. Be responsible for imparting of instructions and maintenance of discipline in the Institute;
d. Create or abolish posts in cadres other than teaching cadres of the Institute and in respect of teaching cadre to create posts for a period not exceeding six months;
e. He shall be appellant authority under TIMS CCA rules;
[Act No.9 Of 2024] 9 f. He shall be disciplinary authority over the faculty & other staff.
(3) The Director shall exercise such other powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to him by or under this Act or as may be delegated to him by the Governing Council or the Executive Council, as the case may be.
13. The objects of every Institute shall be -
(1) to take up post-graduate medical education in various branches;
(2) to bring together in one place educational facilities of the highest order for the training of personnel in all important branches of health activity; and
(3) to attain self-sufficiency in post-graduate medical education.
14. The Institute shall have the following powers and functions, namely:
(1) provide for under-graduate and post-graduate teaching in the science of modem medicine and other allied sciences, including physical and biological sciences;
(2) provide facilities for research in the various branches of such sciences;
(3) provide for the teaching of humanities in the undergraduate courses;
(4) conduct experiments in new methods of medical education, both undergraduate and post-graduate, in order to arrive at satisfactory standards of such education;
Objects of the Institute.
Functions of the Institute.
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(5) prescribe courses and curricula for both under graduate and post graduate studies;
(6) notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, establish and maintain:
(a) one or more medical colleges with different departments, including a department of preventive and social medicine, sufficiently staffed and equipped to undertake not only undergraduate medical education but also post-graduate medical education in different subjects;
(b) one or more well-equipped hospitals;
(c) a dental college with such institutional facilities for the practice of dentistry and for the practical training of students as may be necessary;
(d) a Nursing college sufficiently staffed and equipped for the training of nurses;
(e) an Allied health sciences college sufficiently staffed and equipped fortraining allied health professionals;
(f) rural and urban health organizations which will form centers for the field training of the medical, dental and nursing students of the Institute as well as for research in to community health problems; and
(g) other institutions for the training of different types of health workers, such as physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and medical technicians of various kinds.
(7) Train teachers for the different medical colleges in India;
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(8) Hold exam inations and grant such degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions and titles in under-graduate and post-graduate medical education as may be laid down in the regulations;
(9) institute, and appoint persons to, professorships, readerships, lectureships and posts of any description in accordance with regulations;
(10) receive grants from the Government and gifts, donations, benefactions, bequests and transfers of properties, both movable and immovable, from donors, benefactors, testators or transferors, as the case may be;
(11) deal with any property belonging to, or vested in, the Institute in any manner which is considered necessary for promoting the objects specified in section 13;
(12) demand and receive such fees and other charges as may be prescribed by regulations;
(13) construct quarters for its staff and allot such quarters to the staff in accordance with such regulations as may be made in this behalf;
(14) borrow money, with the prior approval of the State Government, on the security of the property of the Institute;
(15) do all such other acts and things as may be necessary to further the objects specified in section 15.
15. The State Government may pay to the Institute in each financial year such sum of money and in such manner as may be considered necessary for the exercise of its powers and discharge its functions under this Act.
Payments of the Institute.
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