University to be open to all

(1) The University shall be open to all persons or either sex, and whatever creed, caste or class. It shall not be lawful for the University to adopt or impose on any person any test whatsoever of religious belief or profession to entitle him to be admitted to it as a teacher or as a student or to hold any office therein, or to graduate or to enjoy or exercise any particular benefaction accepted by the University, where such test is made a condition thereof by any testamentary or other instrument creating such benefaction.

(2) Subject to the above provisions, the State Government may direct that the University shall reserve Colleges seats for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other Backward Classes, physically handicapped as defined in persons with Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 of the state or candidates from other state Government.