Powers of the Board of Management

(1) to make statutes and amend or repeal the statutes; (2) to consider and review the financial requirements and approve the annual financial estimates of the University submitted by Vice-Chancellor; (3) to provide for the administration of any fund placed at the disposal of the University for the purposes intended; (4) to arrange for the investment and withdrawal of funds of the University; (5) to borrow money for the purposes of the University with the approval of the Government on the security of the property of the University and to make suitable agreements for its repayments. (6) to hold control and administer the properties of the University; (7) to determine the form, to provide for the custody and to regulate the use of the common seal of the University; (8) to appoint such committee either standing or temporary as it may consider necessary and specify the terms of reference, thereof subject to the provision of this Act and statutes; (9) to determine and regulate all questions of policy relating to the University in accordance with the provisions of this Act and statutes; (10) to make financial provision for instruction, teaching, research advancement and dissemination of knowledge in such branches of learning and courses of study as may be determined by the Academic Council; (11) to provide for the establishment, maintenance and naming or renaming of colleges, hostels, laboratories, clinics, instructional and experimental livestock, poultry and fishery farms and other facilities necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act; (12) to provide for the institution and conferment of degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions; (13) to provide for the institution, maintenance and award of scholarships, fellowships, studentship, bursaries, exhibitions, medals and prizes etc.; (14) to accept on behalf of the University, trust, bequest, donations and transfer of any movable or immovable property made to it; (15) to enter into contract on behalf of the University; (16) to approve the recommendations for appointment of officers, teachers and other staff of the University in the manner as may be prescribed; (17) to decide to affiliate a college or institution other than its own constituent colleges and institutions to the University under special circumstances on the recommendations of the Academic Council and the State Government under such specific terms and conditions as may be prescribed; (18) to do all acts appertaining or incidental to the construction of buildings, roads, tanks, pipelines and other structures of the University and, for the purpose, shall appoint a Construction Committee consisting of seven members of whom the Vice-Chancellor shall be the Chairman, the Registrar shall be the Secretary, the Finance Officer, and the remaining four members shall be appointed from among the members of the Executive Council with power to co-opt experts as members who shall have no power to vote: Provided that at least one member of the Committee shall be appointed from amongst the members elected to the Executive Council by the Court. (19) to arrange for holding/conducting examinations of the University and publishing the results. (20) to exercise such power and to discharge such duties as may be prescribed by or the statutes.