Powers and Duties of Academic Council

(1) The Academic Council shall be the chief academic body and shall have the right to advice the Board on all academic matters. Without prejudice to the generality of this provision, the Academic Council shall have the following duties and functions, namely:- (i) to formulate guiding principles for determining curricula and syllabi for the entire secondary and higher secondary education; (ii) to consider and submit its recommendations to the Executive Council on the detailed syllabi for all standards except the final standard, after taking in to consideration the recommendations of the respective Board of studies thereon; (iii) to consider and submit its recommendations to the Executive Council on the curricula and details syllabi prepared by the Boards of Studies for the final examinations; (iv) to formulated general principles for preparing text-books. (v) to prepared or recommend for prescription to the Executive Council text-books for the standards leading to the final examinations, after taking into consideration the recommendations of the respective Boards of Studies thereon; (vi) to recommend to the Executive Council standard requirements in respect of staff, building, furniture, equipment. Stationery and other things required for secondary and higher secondary schools; 1) Every candidate admitted to the Examination shall be given an Admission Card by the Board and the candidate shall be required to produce from day to day, to the Conductor of the Examination at the Centre where he appears for the Examination, the Admission Card issued to him on behalf of the Board by the Head of Secondary School through which he is appearing for the Examination and signed by the candidate in the presence of the Head of such Secondary School. A candidate failing to produce such an admission Card shall be liable to be refused admission to the Examination hall. If, for any reason, the candidate fails o produce such Admission Card or the Admission card produced does not bear the candidates signature attested by the head of the Secondary School, the conductor may allow the candidate to appear for the Examination only after satisfying himself as to the candidate’s identity by enquiries to corroborate the information available to him from the list of candidates and issuing to the candidate a permit signed by him for production by the candidate on subsequent days, of the Examination. In case where the candidate’s signature if taken in the examination hall, does not tally with that on Admission Card, the candidate shall be liable to be refused permission to appear for the Examination. 2) No candidate shall be admitted to the examination hall if he arrives at the place of the examination late by more than half an hour after the time fixed for the starting of the paper. 3) No candidate suffering from any infectious or contagious disease shall be admitted to an examination hall. If any such case comes to the notice of the Conductor of the Examination, he will make separate arrangement for his seating. (1) the fees paid by the candidate for one examination shall not be held reserve for the future examination. (2) The examination fees in part or full shall be refunded to the candidates under the circumstances as detailed below:- (a) If the application for the admission to the examination is withdrawn under any of the sub-rules of rule 22, the full amount paid shall be refunded to the candidate through head of the institution after deducting 25% of such amount as process fees. (b) If the candidate dies prior to the examination and the application for refund of fees is received by the Board within three moths from the date of conclusion of the examination the full amount of fees shall be refunded to the applicant who is entitled to receive such refund, through the head of the school. (c) If the candidate is taken ill and is prevented from appearing for the examination, 50% of the fees shall be refunded provided the application for withdrawal of application for admission for examination alogwith necessary medical certificate from registered medical practitioner reaches the Secretary of the Board through the head of the institution concerned within two days from the commencement of the examination or the Chairman is satisfied that such an application was dispatched by the candidate in good time so as to reach the Secretary within the said period. Provided further, that the request for refund of examination fees from such candidate shall be received by the Secretary within three months from the date of commencement of examination, with the details of the examination. (d) If the admission of any candidate for examination is cancelled by the Board on the ground specified vide rule 23, the full amount of fees paid by the candidate shall be refunded after deducting 25% of the amount against process fees provided the application for such refund is made to the Secretary within three months from the commencement of examination. (e) When a private candidate’s application for admission to the examination is rejected, the examination fees paid by the candidate, after deduction of 25%, shall be refunded to him/her provided that the application has not been rejected on account of a false statement by him/her. In the case of a candidate who has made a false statement , an additional penalty according to the seriousness of the offence, up to the extent of the forfeiture of the entire fees, may be levied. (f) Notwithstanding anything contained above, refund of full amount of examination fees may be granted to such candidates who may during the period of a national emergency, join military service subsequent to the submission of his/her application for admission to the examination and who may apply for such refund, on his/her producing a certificate signed by the officer commanding concerned, about his/her having joined military service during the period mentioned above, and his/her being unable to take the admission for that reason.