5. The University shall have the following powers and functions, namely,-
(i) to provide for instruction in such branches of learning as the University may think fit, and to make provisions for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge of art and culture;
(ii) to admit any college to the privileges of affiliation or recognition or to enlarge the privileges of any college already affiliated or recognized, as the case may be, or to withdraw or curtail any such privilege and to guide and control the work of affiliated and recognized colleges.
(iii) to confer degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions;
(iv) to hold examination for, and to grant and confer degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions to and on persons, who:-
(a) have pursued a course of study in the University, a constituent college or an affiliated college, or recognized college; or
(b) have carried on research in the University or in an institution recognized in that behalf by the University or independently, under conditions laid down in the Statutes and the Ordinances; or
(c) have pursued a course of study by correspondence whether residing within the area of the University or not, and have been registered by the University as external candidates, subject to such conditions as may be laid down in the Statutes and Ordinances; or
(d) are teachers or other employees in the University or in an Institute or in a constituent or affiliated or recognized college or in any other educational institution under conditions laid down in the Statutes and the Ordinances, and have carried on private studies under the conditions laid down in the Statutes and the Ordinances;or.
(e) are persons residing within the area of the University and have carried on private studies under conditions laid down in the Statutes and Ordinances; or
(f) are blind and are residing within the area of the University and have carried on private studies under conditions laid down in the Statutes and the Regulations;
(v) to grant such diplomas to, and to provide such lectures and instructions for persons, not being students of the University, as the University may determine;
(vi) to co-operate and collaborate with other Universities and authorities in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine;