to administer and manage the University, its departments, schools, centres for research, education and instruction as are necessary for the furtherance of the objects of the University;
to provide for instruction, education, training and research in such branches of knowledge or learning of its programmes of study and allied areas;
to conduct innovative experiments in new methods and technologies in the core and emerging fields of education to achieve high standards of such education, training and research;
to provide courses and curricula and to provide for flexibility in the education system and delivery methodologies, including electronic and distance learning;
to hold examinations through physical or electronic mode and to confer degrees, diplomas or to grant certificates and other academic distinctions or to award titles on persons, subject to such conditions, as the University may determine, and to withdraw or cancel any such degrees, diplomas, certificates, or other academic distinctions or titles in the manner provided for by the Regulations;
to confer ordinary and honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner provided for by the Statutes;
to establish such centres, specialized study centres or other units within the campus and departments for research and instruction as are in the opinion of the University necessary for the furtherance of its objects;
to provide printing, reproduction and publication of research and other works and to organize exhibitions;
to sponsor and undertake research in all aspects of information and communication technology and allied areas;
to collaborate or associate with, advise, administer, control, develop, maintain, or take over by way of merger or otherwise, any educational institution having similar objects;
to develop and maintain linkages with educational or other institutions in any part of the world through exchange of teachers and scholars in such manner as may be conducive to their common objects;
to develop and maintain relations with teachers, researchers, and domain experts in information and communication technology and allied areas in any part of the world for achieving the objects of the University;
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(xiii) to regulate expenditure and to manage the finances and to maintain accounts of the University;
(xiv) to receive funds from industry, institutions, national and international organizations, national or international financial institutions including nationalized banks or from any other source, or to receive loans, subsidies, grants, assistance, donations, benefactions, bequests and to transfer of movable and immovable properties, for the purposes and objects of the University in such manner as may be provided for by the Regulations;
(xv) to establish, maintain and manage halls and hostels for the use and residence of the students;
(xvi) to supervise and control the residence and regulate the discipline of the students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health, general welfare and cultural activities;
(xvii) to fix, demand, receive and recover fees and such other charges as may be provided for by the Regulations;
(xviii) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, prizes, medals and other awards;
(xix) to purchase or to take on lease or accept as gifts or otherwise any land, or building or works or any other movable or immovable property which may be necessary or expedient fgr the purpose of the University and for its expansion and on such terms and conditions as it may deem fit and proper and to construct or alter and maintain any such building or works;
(xx) to lease, exchange, or otherwise dispose of all or any of the properties of the University, movable or immovable, on such terms as it may think fit and consistent with the interest, activities and objects of the University in such manner as may be provided for by the Regulations;
(xxi) to draw and accept, to make and endorse, to discount and negotiate all promissory notes, bills, exchange, cheques or other negotiable instruments;
(xxii) to raise and borrow money on bond, mortgages, promissory notes or other obligations or securities founded or based upon all or any of the properties and assets of the University or without any securities and upon such terms and conditions as it may think fit and to pay out of the funds of the University, all expenses incidental to the raising of money, and to repay and redeem any money borrowed;
(xxiii) to invest the funds of the University in such securities and transpose any investment from time to time in such manner as it may deem fit in the interest of the University;
(xxiv) to execute conveyances regarding transfers, mortgages, leases, licences, agreements and other conveyances in respect of property, movable or immovable including Government securities belonging to the University or to be acquired for the purpose of the University within the guidelines of the Central Government and the State Government and the Reserve Bank of India;
(xxv) to admit students into the courses offered by the University in the manner as may be provided for by the Regulations;
(xxvi) to create academic, technical, administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointment thereto;
(xxvii) to regulate and enforce discipline among the emoloyees of the University and to provide for such disciplinary measures as may be provided for by the Regulations;
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(xxviii) to institute Professorship, Associate Professorship, Assistant Professorship and any other teaching, academic or research posts and to prescribe qualifications for them not repugnant to the requirement of the Regulatory Bodies;
(xxix) to appoint persons as Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors as teachers and researchers of the University;
(xxx) to do all such other acts and things as the University may consider necessary, conducive or incidental to the attainment of all or any of the objects of the University.
Teaching in the University.
The Visitor.
9. (1) All recognized teaching in connection with any degrees, diplomas, certificates, awards, distinctions of the University shall be conducted by the teachers of the University under the general control of the Governing Board and the Academic Council.
(2) The courses of study, the curricula and the authorities responsible for such teaching shall be such as may be provided for by the Regulations.
10. (1) The Governor of West Bengal shall, by virtue of his office, be the Visitor of the University.
(2) The Visitor shall, when present, preside at the convocation of the University for the purpose of conferring degrees, diplomas, awards, certificates of other academic distinctions in the University.
(3) The Visitor shall have the power to call for any paper or information relating to the affairs of the University and on the basis of the information received by the Visitor, if he is satisfied that any order, proceeding, or decision taken by any authority of the University is not in conformity with the policy of the State Government in this regard or the provisions of this Act or the Rules, the Statutes, the Regulations or the Ordinances of the University, he may issue such directions as he may deem fit in the interest of the University and the directions so issued shall be complied with by the University.
(4) The Visitor shall have the power to cause an inspection to be made by such person or persons as he may direct, of the University, its building, libraries, laboratories and equipment, and of any centre, department, institution, school or campuses maintained by the University and also of the examinations, teaching and other work conducted or done by the University and to cause an inquiry to be made in like manner in respect of any matter connected with the administration or finances of the University and its centres, departments, institutions or schools.
(5) The Visitor shall, in every case, give notice to the University of his intention to cause an inspection or inquiry to be made, and the University shall, on receipt of such notice, have the right to make, within thirty days from the date of receipt of the notice or such other period as the Visitor may determine, such representations to the Visitor, as it may consider necessary.
(6) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of this section, the Visitor may, by order in writing annul any proceeding of any meeting of any authority or committee of the University which is not in conformity with this Act or the rules or the policy of the State Government or the Statutes or the Regulations or the Ordinances of the University:
Provided that before making any such order, he shall call upon the University to show cause as to why such an order should not be made, and if any satisfactory cause is shown within a reasonable time, he may consider the same.
(7) The Visitor shall have such other powers as may be prescribed by the rules.
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Authorities of the University.
Officers of the University.
The Governing Board, its powers and functions.