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Powers and Functions of the University The powers and functions of the University shall be as follows, with due emphasis on promoting collaboration with the Bar Council of India Trust PEARL-FIRST. The Chairman, in consultation with Board of Trustees/ Managing Trustees, shall have enhanced powers to make strategic decisions for the benefit of the University, especially in cases of urgency, emergency, or short notice:-

1. (i) to administer and manage the University and such centers for research, education, and instruction as are necessary for the furtherance of the objects of the University, with approval from the Chairman in consultation with the Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees for establishing new centers or making significant changes;
2. (ii) to provide for instruction in such branches of knowledge or learning pertaining to law, as the University may think fit and to make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge of law, subject to approval and recommendations of the BCI Trust, with final decisions being made by the Chairman in consultation with the Board of Trustees/ Managing Trustees;
3. (iii) to involve teachers from the top most Law Universities of the World in the works of teaching of the students and to grant degrees as per the decision of the General Council, with strategic advice and recommendations from the BCI Trust, under the authority of the Chairman in consultation with the Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees;
4. (iv) to organize and undertake extramural teaching, with Chairman in consultation with Chancellor and Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees having the authority to approve significant initiatives related to extramural activities;
5. (v) to hold examinations and to confer degrees, grant diplomas or certificates, and confer other academic distinctions by virtue of classroom/regular studies or distance education, subject to such conditions as the University may determine in consultation with the Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees, in light of BCI Rules of Legal Education/guidelines/circulars and to withdraw any such degree, diploma, certificate, or other academic distinction for good and sufficient cause as endorsed by the Chairman in consultation with Board of Trustees/ Managing Trustees;
6. (vi) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner laid down in the regulations, with special approval from the Chairman in consultation with Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees where deemed necessary;
7. (vii) to institute and maintain halls and hostels and recognize places of residence for the students of the University, with authority vested in the Chairman in consultation with the Board of Trustees/ Managing Trustees to make urgent decisions in this regard;,
8. (viii) to supervise and control the residence and regulate the discipline of the students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health, subject to the approval of Chairman in consultation with Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees;
9. (ix) to make such arrangements in respect of the residence, discipline, and teaching of women students, ensuring the guidelines are aligned with the broader objectives of the BCI Trust, with final oversight by the Chairman in consultation with Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees;
10. (x) to establish such special centers, specialized study centers, or other units for research and instruction as are, in the opinion of the General Council necessary for the furtherance of its objects, with strategic direction provided by the Chairman in consultation with the Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees;
11. (xi) to create academic, technical, administrative, ministerial, and other posts and to make appointments thereto, under the guidance and approval of Chairman in consultation with Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees;
12. (xii) to regulate and enforce discipline among the employees of the University and to take such disciplinary measures as may be deemed necessary, with the Chairman retaining the power to make urgent decisions in consultation with the Board of Trustees/ Managing Trustees;
13. (xiii) to institute professorships, associate professorships, assistant professorships, readerships, lectureships, and any other teaching, academic or research posts required by the University, with input from the BCI Trust, ensuring these appointments align with broader legal education reforms, under the supervision of the Chairman in consultation with the Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees;
14. (xiv) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, prizes, and medals, ensuring they are consistent with the BCI Trust’s objectives and receive endorsement from the Chairman in consultation with Chancellor and Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees;
15. (xv) to provide for printing, reproduction, and publication of research and other works, and to organize exhibitions, ensuring that the Chairman in consultation with Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees has oversight of major initiatives;
16. (xvi) to sponsor and undertake research in all aspects of law, justice, and social development, with strategic direction provided by Chairman in consultation with Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees;
17. (xvii) to co-operate with any other organization in the matter of education, training, and research in law, justice, social development, and allied subjects, ensuring cooperation is in line with the BCI Trust’s strategic goals, and obtaining approval from the Chairman in consultation with Board of Trustees /Managing Trustees for significant partnerships; (xviii) to co-operate with institutions of higher learning globally, having objects wholly or partially similar to those of the University, by exchange of teachers and scholars and in such a manner as may be conducive to common objectives, with the approval of the Chairman in consultation with Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees for strategic partnerships;
18. (xix) to regulate the expenditure and to manage the accounts of the University, with oversight and final approval by Chairman in consultation with Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees for major financial decisions;
19. (xx) to establish and maintain within the University’s premises such classrooms and study halls as may be considered necessary and adequately furnish the same, subject to approval from the Chairman in consultation with Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees;

1. (xxi) to establish and maintain such libraries and reading rooms as may appear convenient or necessary for the University, with strategic input from BCI Trust and approval from the Chairman in consultation with Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees;
2. (xxii) to receive grants, subventions, subscriptions, donations, and gifts for the purpose of the University and consistent with the objects for which the University is established, with final approval from the Chairman in consultation with Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees for significant donations; (xxiii) to purchase, take on lease, or accept as gifts any land, building, or works necessary or convenient for the purpose of the University, subject to Chairman, in consultation with Board of Trustees/ Managing Trustees approval;
3. (xxiv) to sell, exchange, lease, or otherwise dispose of any portion of the properties of the University on such terms as it may think fit, provided that Chairman in consultation with Board of Trustees / Managing Trustees grants final approval;
4. (xxv) to draw and accept, to make and endorse, to discount and negotiate promissory notes, bills of exchange, cheques, or other negotiable instruments, subject to oversight by Chairman, and Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees;
5. (xxvi) to execute conveyances, transfers, reconveyances, mortgages, leases, licenses, and agreements in respect of property, moveable or immovable, including Government securities belonging to the University, subject to Chairman, and Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees approval; (xxvii) to appoint any person to execute an instrument or transact business on behalf of the University, with oversight by Chairman in consultation with Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees for significant appointments; (xxviii)to enter into agreements with Central or State Governments, University Grants Commission, or other authorities for receiving grants, subject to Chairman, and Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees approval;
6. (xxix) to accept grants of money, securities, or property on terms it deems expedient, subject to Chairman, and Board of Trustees/ Managing Trustees approval;
7. (xxx) to raise and borrow money on bonds, mortgages, promissory notes, or other obligations or securities, and to payout expenses incidental to raising money, subject to oversight by Chairman, and Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees;
8. (xxxi) to invest the funds of the University or money entrusted to the University as deemed fit, subject to Chairman in consultation with Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees oversight; (xxxii) to make such regulations for regulating the affairs and management of the University as considered necessary, with the Chairman, and Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees responsible for strategic regulation changes; (xxxiii)to constitute for the benefit of staff pension, insurance, provident fund, or gratuity schemes as it deems fit, subject to the approval of the Chairman, Chancellor, and Board of Trustees / Managing Trustees; (xxxiv)to delegate powers to the Vice-Chancellor or any other officer or committee, with final power of delegation to be vested in Chairman in consultation with Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees;
9. (xxxv) to manage and regulate the finances, accounts, investments, property, and business of the University, with Chairman, Chancellor, and Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees having oversight of all major decisions; (xxxvi)to invest any money belonging to the University, including unapplied income, in securities or immovable property, subject to approval of the Chairman, and Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees; (xxxvii)to transfer or accept transfers of property on behalf of the University, subject to the approval of the Chairman in consultation with the Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees; (xxxviii)to enter into, vary, carry out, or cancel contracts on behalf of the University, with final approval from Chairman, and Board of Trustees /Managing Trustees for major contracts; (xxxix)to provide the buildings, premises, furniture, and apparatus needed for carrying on the work of the University, subject to the approval of Chairman in consultation with the Board of Trustees/ Managing Trustees;
10. (xl) ‘to select a common seal for the University and to provide for the custody of the seal, with final authority vested in Chairman, and Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees;
11. (xli) to do all such other acts as necessary, conducive, or incidental to the attainment of the aforesaid objects, subject to final approval from Chairman, and Board of Trustees/Managing Trustees.