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(vii) to encourage and provide for instruction and training in such branches of learning and courses of study including anthropology and sociology as it may think fit, to make provision for research and to promote the advancement and dissemination of knowledge and learning and the extension of higher education;
to establish and develop specialized research centres, inter disciplinary centres or similar institutions for studies and to undertake research in tribal issues, rural development, plantation, forestry, fishery, agriculture and horticulture, cultural studics, language studies, gender issues, religious studies, traditional/indigenous medicines, ethno medicinal aspects;
to conduct specialized diploma, degree or post-graduate courses, as the case may be, in such subjects as tribal languages, habitat and customs, rural administration, public administration, policy planning, forestry, floriculture, wild life management, pisciculture, and also in subjects like rural and urban planning, manpower planning, regional resources planning, ecology and environmental studies, agricultural and rural industries, traditional knowledge and in such other subjects, as may be necessary from time to time;
to organize short courses after post graduation in Arts, Science and Commerce for those who are otherwise suitable for teaching the non-traditional courses mentioned in clause (iii);
to make such academic, studies as may contribute to the improvement of economic conditions and welfare of the people in general and the tribal people in particular;
to establish, maintain or manage libraries, laboratories, museums and such other institutions as it may consider fit;
save-as otherwise provided under sub-section (ii) of Section 6 of this Act, to institute degrec, titles, diplomas, certificates, and other academic distinctions on persons who —
(a) shall, unless exempted there from in such manner, as may be prescribed .by Statutes, have pursued in an affiliated college or in the University or in an institution or centre recognized by the University, such courses of study and shall have passed such examination of the University as may be prescribed, or
(b) shall have carried on research under conditions as may be prescribed;
(viii) to confer honorary degrees or other academic distinctions under such conditions, as
(ix) may be prescribed;
to co-operate with other Universities and educational authorities in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine;
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(xii) to institte and to make appointment to professorship, Associate profussorship, Assistant Profcssorship and other teaching posts required by the University in accordance with regulation notified by the -University Grants Commission with regard to minimum qualifications;
to institute and award fellowships, $cholarship, exhibitions, prizes, medals and other honours and distinctions;
to prescribe, demand and receive fees, fines and other charges;
(xiii) to cstablish, maintain and manage hostels, halls and other places of residence for the students of the University and teachers, officers and other employces and to recognize such hostels, halls and other places of residence and to withdraw recognition there from;
(xiv) to provide for the supervision and control of residence and discipline of students of )
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(xxi)
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(xxiii)
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(xxvii) the University and to’make arrangements for promotion of their health and general welfarc;
to provide for supervision, control and discipline of the teaching and non-tcaching employces of the University in pursuance of the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations;
to conduct, co-ordinate, regulate and control the post-graduate rescarch work and teaching in the University;
to prescribe the powers and duties of officers of the University;
to provide for the inspection or investigation into the affairs, of a college or an institution- recognized by the University; i to create and to make appointment to such administfative, clerical and other posts under the University as it may deem fit;
to accept grants from,the Central or any State Government or the University Grants Commission and, with the approval of State Government from other sources;
to raise loans or to accept loans from the Central or the State Government and with the approval of State Government from other sources;
to cnter into contracts and agrcements with the approval of the Syndicate in furtherance of the objects of the University;
to acquire, hold and disposc of properties, and immovable, for furthering any of the objects of the University;
1o make grants for the maintenance of the National Cadet Corps and the National Social Service;
gengrally to do all such acts and things as may be nccessary or desirable for, or incidental to the advancement of the objects or purposes of the University;
to recognize any college or institution as a constituent College and to withdraw such recognition in respect‘of any such college or institution;
the University may grant in the manner prescribed, to a college which satisfics the conditions prescribed in this behalf, the privileges of varying, for the students receiving instructions in such college, the courses of study prescribed by the University and holding examinations in the courses so varied, subject to the provisions-of sub-scction (ii) of Section 6 of this Act;
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(xxviil) to recognizce an Institution of higher learning or a laboratory or institutions of similar naturc for such purposcs as the University may determine and to withdraw such recognition;
(xxix) to organise and to undertake extramural studics, training and extension scrvices;
(xxx) to provide facilities trough the distance education system to such persons as it may determing;
(xxxi) to organise and conduct Refresher ‘courses, orientation courses and workshops, seminars and other programmes for teachers, cvaluators, academic and other staff;
(xxxii) to supervise the residences of the students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health and general welfare;
(xxxiii) to lay down conditions of service of all category of employces including their code of conduct;
(xxxiv) to do all such other acts and things as may be necessary, incidental or conducive to the attainment of all or aniy of its objects.
Jurisdiction of the University :-
6. (i) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the local limits of jurisdiction of the Uniwersity (hereinafter referred to as the territorial limits of the University), shall extend to the whole of the State of Tripura;
(ii) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, any cducational institution or College within the State of ‘I'ripura, may be associated in any way with or be admitted to any privilege of the Maharaja Bir Bikram University or may be affiliated under the Maharaja Bir Bikram University subject to the condition that, direction in that regard is issucd by the Central Government in writing to the effect that the proviso to sub-section (2) of*Section 7 of the Tripura University Act, 2006 (Central Act No.9 of 2007), shall not apply for that educational institution or College.