Chapter II THE UNIVERSITY

1. (1) The Chancellor, the first Vice-Chancellor of the University and the first members of the Senate, the Syndicate and the Department of Board of Post-Graduate Teaching and Research of the University] and all persons who may hereafter become such officers or members, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of "The Gujarat Ayurved University."
2. (2) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and may sue and be sued by the said name;
3. (3) The University shall be competent to acquire and hold property, both movable and immovable, to lease, sell or otherwise transfer any movable or immovable property which may vest in or be acquired by it for the purposes of the University, to raise loans on the security of its assets and to contract and do all other things necessary for the purposes of this Act:

Powers of University Subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by or under the provisions of this Act, the University shall have the following powers and shall perform the following duties, namely:—

1. (1) to provide for instructions, teaching and training in such branches of Ayurvedic system of medicine and allied subjects as it may think fit to make provision for research, advancement and dissemination of the knowledge of the said system and subjects and to promote and encourage the knowledge of Ayurved in its original concept;
2. (2) to make such provision as would enable affiliated colleges, recognised institutions and approved institutions to undertake specialisation of studies;
3. (3) to establish and organise common pharmaceutical laboratories, libraries, museums and other equipment for teaching and research;
4. (4) to establish, take over, maintain and manage colleges departments, centres and institutes of reasearch or specialised studies;
5. (5) to institute professorships, readerships, lecturerships and any other posts of teachers required by the University;
6. (6) to appoint or recognise persons as professors, readers or lecturers or otherwise as teachers of the University;
7. (7) to-lay down the courses of instructions for the verious examinations;
8. (8) to guide teaching in colleges University departments, University centres or recognised institutions;
9. (9) to institute degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions;
10. (10) to hold examinations and to confer degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions or persons who—
    • (a) have pursued approved courses of study in the University or in an, affiliated college unless exempted therefrom in the manner prescribed by the Statutes, Ordinances regulations and Rules] and have passed the examinations prescribed by the University, or
    • (b) have carried on research under conditions prescribed by the Ordinances regulations or Rules],
11. (11) to confer honorary degrees or other academic distinctions in the manner laid down by the Statutes;
12. (12) to grant such diplomas to, and to provide such leactures, instruction and training for, persons who are not enrolled students of the University as may be determined by the Statutes, Ordinances regulations and Rules],
13. (13) to admit educational institutions to the privileges of the University and to withdraw such privileges;
14. (14) to inspect colleges, recognised institutions and approved institutions and to take measures to ensure that proper standards of instruction, teaching or training are maintained in them, and that adequate library and laboratory provisions are made therein;
15. (15) to control and co-ordinate the activities of, or to give financial aid to, affiliated colleges, approved institutions and recognised institutions;
16. (16) to hold and manage trusts and endowments and to institute and award fellowships, traveling fellowships, scholarships, studentships, exhibitions, medals and prizes;
17. (17) to fix, demand and to receive or recover such fees and other charges as may be prescribed by the Ordinances;
18. (18) to establish, maintain and manage hostels;
19. (19) to recognise hostels not maintained by the University, to inspect such hostels and to withdraw recognition therefrom;
20. (20) to co-ordinate, supervise, regulate and control the residence, conduct and discipline of the students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health and general welfare;
21. (21) to co-ordinate, supervise, regulate and control the conduct of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and of post-graduate research and teaching in the affiliated colleges and the institutions recognised or approved by the University;
22. (22) to institute and manage—
    • (a) Publication Department;
    • (b) Pharmaceutical Department;
    • (c) Botanical Garden, and
    • (d) Medical Department;
23. (23) to make provisions—
    • (a) for extra-mural teaching and other recognised activities;
    • (b) for physical education, National Cadet Crops and military training;
    • (c) for students' unions; and
    • (d) for sports and athletic activities;
24. (24) to co-operate with other Universities and authorities in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine;
25. (25) to invite research scholars, students, professors, vaidyas, medical practitioners and others interested in the study of Ayurvedic system of medicine to give leactures, instructions, or otherwise help in the study of the Ayurvedic system of medicine and to fix their pay, honoraria and other expenses payable to them;
26. (26) to collect, edit or publish manuscripts, books, periodicals, pamphlets and papers in the subject of Ayurvedic system of medicine or in any other allied subjects and for that purpose to establish works and open printing press;
27. (27) to carry out or help surveys and research work in the field of Botany, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Pharmacopoeia, Panchkarma, Naturopathy, Yoga, Therapy, Roxicology, and History of Ayurveda and other allied subjects;
28. (28) to do all such acts and things whether incidental to the powers aforesaid or not as may be requisite in order to further the objects of the University and generally to cultivate and promote Ayurvedic system of medicine and its allied science as well as its other branches of learning.

1. (1) No Ayurvedic institution within the State of Gujarat shall, save with the sanction of the State Government and the University, be associated in any way with or seek admission to any privileges of any other University established by law.
2. (2) With effect from the date on which this section comes into force, all institutions situate in the State of Gujarat and functioning immediately before the said date as institutions recognised under section 27 of the Gujarat Medical Practitioners' Act, 1963, shall be deemed to be admitted to the privileges of the University and the University shall, so far as it may be consistent with this Act, admit each such institution to the privileges of the University as an affiliated college, recognised institution or as the case may be, approved institution.
3. (3) Any Ayurvedic institution situate outside the State of Gujarat may, subject to such conditions and restrictions as the University and the State Government may think fit to impose, be admitted to the privileges of the University.

1. (1) No person shall be excluded from any office of the University or from membership of any of its authorities or from admission to any degree, diploma or other academic distinction or course of study on the sole ground of sex, race, creed, class, place of birth, religious belief or political or other opinion: Provided that the University may, subject to the previous sanction of the state Government, maintain, affiliate or recognise any college or institution exclusively for women, reserve for women or members of classes and communities which are educationally backward, seats for the purposes of admission as students in any institution maintained by the University.
2. (2) It shall not be lawful for the University to impose or any person any test whatsoever relating to sex, race, creed, class, place of birth, religious belief or profession of political or other opinion in order to entitle him to be admitted as a teacher or a student or to hold any office or post in the University or to qualify for any degree, diploma or other academic distinction or to enjoy or exercise any privileges of the University or any benefaction thereof.

1. (1) The Chancellor shall have the right to cause an inspection to be made by such person or persons as he may direct, of the University, its building, laboratories, libraries, museums, workshops and equipment of any institution, college or hostel maintained, recognised or approved by, or affiliated to, the University, of the teaching and other work conducted by the University and of the conduct of examinations held by the University; and to cause an inquiry to be made in respect of any matter connected with the University. The Chancellor shall in every case give notice to the University of his instiution to cause an inspection or inquiry to be made and the University shall be entitled to be represented thereat.
2. (2) The Chancellor shall communicate to the Syndicate and to the Senate his views with reference to the results of such inspection or inquiry and shall, after ascertaining the opinion of the Syndicate and the Senate thereon, advice the University on the action to be taken.
3. (3) The Syndicate shall report to the Chancellor such action, if any, as it has taken or may propose to take upon the results of the inspection or inquiry, such reports shall be submitted with the opinion of the Senate thereon and within such time as the Chancellor may direct.
4. (4) Where the Syndicate does not within a reasonable time take action to the satisfaction of the Chancellor, the Chancellor may, after considering any explanation furnished or representation made by the Syndicate, issue such directions as he may think fit and the Syndicate shall comply with such directions.
5. (5) The State Government may, whenever it deems fit, cause a like inspection or inquiry to be made in the manner described in sub-sections
6. (1) to
7. (3) above and shall have, for the purposes of such inspection or inquiry, all the powers of the Chancellor under the said sub-sections.