Vice-Chancellor of the University

(1) The Vice-Chancellor shall be a scholar of eminence in one of the areas of engineering, technology, sciences, management and allied areas related to the University and having rich administrative and academic experience in an institution of higher learning; (2) The Vice-Chancellor will be appointed by the Chancellor of the University; (3) The Vice-Chancellor shall be the principal academic and executive officer of the University and shall be responsible for proper administration of the University and for imparting instruction and maintenance of discipline therein and give effect to the decisions of all the authorities of the University and all other staff of the University shall be subordinate to him; (4) The Vice-Chancellor shall have the power to delegate some of his powers to any of his subordinates under intimation to Board of Management; (5) In case the Vice-Chancellor is on leave, in his absence, Pro-Vice Chancellor as nominated by the Vice-Chancellor or in his absence, a Dean of the University as nominated by the Vice-Chancellor shall perform the functions of Vice-Chancellor; (6) In the event of the post of the Vice-Chancellor remaining vacant for any reason, it shall be open to the Chancellor to authorize a senior regular Professor in the service of the University to exercise such powers, functions and duties of the Vice-Chancellor as the Chancellor may deem fit; (7) The Vice-Chancellor shall have the power of the Secretary of Government for purposes of rules in the account code, the Fundamental and Supplementary Rules and Other Rules of the Government in so far as they are applicable or may be made applicable to the conduct of the business of the University, subject to the additional power that may be delegated by the Board of Management from time to time; (8) The Vice-Chancellor shall have the power to incur expenditure in accordance with the procedures as may be prescribed by the Board of Management, subject to the budget provisions made for the specific purpose and for expenditure charged on works the Vice-Chancellor shall have the powers of the Chief Engineer and the Superintending Engineer as per CPWD Works Manual till such time these posts are created and filled; (9) The Vice-Chancellor shall have the power to re-appropriate funds with respect to different items constituting the recurring budget up to a prescribed limit as prescribed by the Board of Management for each item provided that such re-appropriation will not involve any liability in future years, every such re-appropriation shall be compulsorily reported to the Board of Management in the next meeting; (10) The Vice-Chancellor shall have the power to write off irrecoverable losses up to a prescribed limit of Government Rules/norms of irrecoverable value of stores lost or rendered useless due to fair wear and tear according to the powers vested in Head of Department of Government, as per Government rules/norms, and subject to such stipulations as may be made by the Board of management, from time to time; (11) The Vice-Chancellor shall have the power to employ technicians, workmen and administrative and management staff reporting to the academic/deans, paid from contingencies/revenue at emoluments not exceeding the approved rates of the Government and the said staff should only be engaged against the vacant sanctioned posts; (12) The Vice-Chancellor shall have the power to send members of the staff for training or for a course of instruction or to attend any conference or symposium or workshop within India or abroad and pay the registration fees and sanction expenditure of the concerned staff: Provided that his own travel outside India for any of the above purposes/official duty would have to be sanctioned by the Chancellor before the journey: Provided that Vice Chancellor can approve his own travels within India for the same purposes; (13) The Vice-Chancellor shall have the power to sanction remission or reduction of rents for buildings rendered wholly or partially unsuitable on the recommendation of the Committee; (14) The Vice-Chancellor shall have the power to sanction temporary allocation of any building for any purpose other than that for which it was constructed; but in any case it shall not be for commercial use; (15) The Vice-Chancellor may, at his discretion, constitute such Committees as he may consider appropriate; (16) In emergent cases, the Vice-Chancellor may exercise all the powers of the Board of Management, Senate and Finance Committee and put up for the respective ratification of the action taken in the next meeting: Provided that if the authority concerned is of the opinion that such action ought not to have been taken, it may refer the matter to the Chancellor whose decision thereon shall be final: Provided that any person in the service of the University who is aggrieved by the action taken by the Vice-Chancellor under this subsection shall have the right to appeal against such action to the Board of Management within thirty days from the date on which such action is communicated to him and thereupon the Board of Management may, confirm, modify, or reverse the action taken by the Vice-Chancellor; (17) The Vice-Chancellor shall exercise such other powers and perform such other functions as may be prescribed by the Statutes and the Ordinances;