(i) to provide instruction, teaching, training and research including development of skills in various branches and specialized fields of study of Science, Technology. Medicine, Management, Law. Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, Performing Arts. Sports and any other fields of study including the imparting of skills that have employment potentiality;
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(ii) to establish the main campus in West Bengal, and to have study centres, campuses, off-campus centres, off-shore campuses and regional centres at different places in India and abroad as per the norms and regulations of the University Grants Commission and other relevant regulatory bodies;
(iii) to provide regular and distance education programmes;
(iv) to institute degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions on the basis of examination, or any other method of evaluation;
(v) to collaborate with other colleges or Universities, research institutions, industry associations, professional associations or any other organization, in India and abroad, and to conceptualize, design and develop specific educational and research programmes. training programmes and exchange programmes for students, faculty members and other;
(vi) to disseminate knowledge through seminars, conferences, executive education programmes, community development programmes, publications and training programmes;
(vii) to undertake programmes for the training and development of faculty members and teachers of the University and other Institutions in India and abroad;
(viii) to undertake collaborative research with any organization in India and abroad;
(ix) to create higher levels of intellectual abilities;
(x) to create entrepreneurs by providing necessary skills and support;
(xi) to provide consultancy to industry, Government, public and private organization;
(xii) to create an Industry Academia partnership by inviting Industry and institutions in the University campus and other university places for mutual • benefits;
(xiii) to ensure that the standard of degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions are not lower than those laid down by statutory regulatory authorities in India;
(xiv) to do all things necessary or expedient to promote the objectives under this section;
(xv) to pursue any other objective as may be prescribed by the State Government.
University shall remain open to all irrespective of sex, religion, class, colour, creed or opinion.
7. No person shall be discriminated against or be excluded from any office of the University or from membership of any of its authorities or from admission to any degree, diploma or other academic distinction or course of study on the grounds of sex, race, creed, caste and class, place of birth, religious belief or political or other opinion.
Powers and functions of University.
8. Subject to the provisions of this Act and the State Government's Policy published in the Official Gazette vide Notification no. 142 - Edn (U) dated 31/01/ 2013, the University shall exercise the following powers and perform the following functions, namely:—
(i) 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;
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(ii) to provide for instruction, education, training and research in such branches of knowledge or learning of its Programmes of study and allied areas;
(iii) 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;
(iv) to prescribe courses and curricula and provide for flexibility in the education system and delivery methodologies, including electronic and distance learning;
(v) to hold examinations through physical or electronic mode and confer degrees, diplomas or grant certificates and other academic distinctions or 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 by the University's regulations;
(vi) to confer ordinary and honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner provided by the University's regulations;
(vii) 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;
(viii) to provide printing, reproduction and publication of research and other works and to organize exhibitions;
(ix) to sponsor and undertake research in all aspects of nformation and communication technology and allied areas;
(x) to collaborate or associate with, advise, administer, control, develop.
maintain. or take over by way of merger or otherwise, any educational institution with like or similar objects;
(xi) to develop and maintain linkages with educational or other institutions in any part, of the world through exchange of teachers and scholars, and generally in such manner as may be conducive to their common objects;
(xii) 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;
(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 any other source, loans, subsidies, grants, assistance.
donations, benefactions, bequests and by transfer of movable and immovable properties. for the purposes and objects of the University as may be decided by the Board;
(xv) to establish, maintain and manage halls and hostels for the residence of students;
(xvi) to supervise and control the residence and regulate the discipline of students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health and general welfare, and cultural activities;
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(xvii) to fix, demand and receive or recover fees and such other charges as may be provided by the University's regulations for the purpose of this Act;
(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 for 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;
(xxi) to draw and accept, to make and endorse, to discount and negotiate, Government of India's promissory notes and other 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 provided by the University's regulations;
(xxvi) to create academic, technical, administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointment thereto;
(xxvii) to regulate and enforce discipline among the employees of the University and to provide for such disciplinary measures as may be provided for by University's regulations;
(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;
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(xxx) subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules and University's regulations made thereunder, any officer or authority of the University may, by order, delegate his or its powers except the power to make University's regulations to any other officer or authority under his or its control and subject to the conditions that the ultimate responsibility for the exercise of the power so delegated shall continue to vest in the officer or authority delegating them;
(xxxi) to do all such other acts and things as the University may consider necessary. conducive or incidental to the attainment or enlargement 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 by University's Statutes.
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 published in Official Gazette vide Notification no. 142 - Edn (U) dated 31/01/2013 or the provisions of this Act or University's Statutes, Ordinances, University's regulations and rules made thereunder, 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, 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, its Centers, 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 foregoing provisions of this section, the Visitor may.
by order in writing, annul any proceeding of the University which is not in conformity with this Act or the Policy of the State Government published in Official Gazette vide Notification no. 142 - Edn (U) dated 31/01/2013. or the University's Statutes or the Ordinances or the rules framed under this Act:
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Authorities of the University.
Officers of the University.
Provided that before making any such order, he shall call upon the University to show-cause 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.