(i) to make proposals to the Governing Board for the establishment of University Departments, institutions, libraries, laboratories and museums for study and research to be maintained by the University;
(ii) to recommend to the Governing Board the creation and institution of Professorships, Readerships, Lectureships. and other teaching posts and the emoluments thereof;
(iii) to make proposals to the Governing Board for the promotion of research and, through special committees, if any constituted for the purpose, to call for reports on such research work from persons engaged therein, and to make recommendations to the Governing Board thereon;
(iv) to make proposals to the Governing Board regarding provisions to be made for enabling the University to undertake specialization of studies and for organization of common laboratories, libraries, museums, institutes of research and other institutions, maintained by the University;
to advise the Governing Board on the institution of degrees, titles, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions;
to hold and conduct, subject to general supervision by the Governing Board, University examinations and publish the results thereof in accordance with the University's regulations made in this regard;
to provide for the inspection or the investigation into the affairs of any department and submit report to the Governing Board;
to frame guidelines relating to the courses of Post-Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and the division of subjects in regard thereto including interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary integrated courses in selected subjects and to recommend to the Governing Board the making of University's regulations in this regard;
(ix) to call for such reports or information as the Faculty Council may consider necessary for efficient discharge of its duties from the teaching departments, research units;
(x) to consider any educational matter relating to the Faculty Council and to arrive at decisions or make recommendations pertaining thereto to the appropriate authority or officer;
(xi) to submit each year its Annual Report to the Governing Board;
(xii) to consider and approve results of examinations leading to undergraduate and post-graduate degrees, diplomas and certificates;
(xiii) to recommend to the Governing Board the conferment of undergraduate and post-graduate degrees, diplomas and certificates;
(xi v) to exercise all other powers and perform all other functions conferred and imposed on it by or under this Act.
25. (1) There shall be such other authorities in the University as may be constituted by the Governing Board in such manner as may be provided for by the University's Statutes.
(2) The composition, constitution, powers and functions of such other authorities of the University shall be such as may be provided by the University's Statutes.
14 THE KOLKATA GAZETTE. EXTRAORDINARY. APRIL 10, 2014 [PART III The Seacom Skills University Act, 2014.
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Regulatory Committee.
Act not to be invalidated by vacancies.
The First University's Statutes.
Appointment of teachers and nonteaching employees in the University.
26. (1) There shall be a Regulatory Committee to be constituted by the State Government for the purpose of monitoring and regulating the working of the University as may be prescribed in this regard.
(2) The powers and functions of the Regulatory Committee shall be such as may be prescribed by the State Government.
(3) The recommendations of the Regulatory Committee shall be binding on the University.
(4) Until such time the Regulatory Committee is constituted, the West Bengal State Council of Higher Education will function as the Regulator for the University.
27. No act or proceeding of the Board or any authority of the University or any committee constituted under this Act or by the University's regulations shall be questioned merely on the ground of the existence of a vacancy in or defect in the constitution of the Board. Authority or Committee of the University.