Chapter IV AUTHORITIES OF UNIVERSITY

The following shall be the authorities of the University, namely:-

(i) the Executive Council, (ii) the Academic Council, (iii) the Faculties, (iv) the Finance and Accounts Committee, (v) such other Boards and bodies of the University as may be declared by the regulations to be authorities of the University .

(1) The Executive Council shall be the principal executive authority of the University and shall consist of the following members, namely:-

(i) the Vice-Chancellor - ex-officio, the Chairman;

(ii) the Secretary to Government, Education Department, Government of Gujarat, ex-officio;

(iii) the Commissioner of Higher Education, Gujarat State or an officer not below the rank of the Joint Director of Higher Education nominated by the Commissioner, ex-officio;

(iv) two eminent persons to be nominated by the Chancellor from amongst persons who have made significant contribution in the field of Sanskrit and its literatures;

(v) two distinguished scholars to be nominated by the State Government from amongst persons who have made significant contribution in the field of Sanskrit and its literature; (vi) one Dean of the Faculty nominated by the Vice-Chancellor from amongst the Deans of Faculties by rotation in such manner as may be prescribed;

(vii) one of the principal of the colleges nominated by the Vice-Chancellor amongst the principals of the colleges in such manner as may be prescribed.

(2) The term of the nominated members of the Executive Council shall be for a period of three years.

(1) The Executive Council shall exercise the following powers and perform the following duties, namely :-

(i) to hold, control and administer the property and funds of the University; (ii) to enter into, vary, carry out or cancel contracts on behalf of the University; (iii) to determine the form and provide for the custody and regulate the use of the common seal of the University; (iv) to pass the annual financial estimates of the University; (v) to sanction re-appropriation of grant or fund from one head to another head, limited to twenty-five per cent. of the total allocation made under the concerned heads; (vi) to accept, on behalf of the University, trusts, endowments, bequests, donations and transfer of any movable or immovable property to the University; (vii) to manage and regulate the finances, accounts and investments of the University; (viii) to fix, demand and receive such fees and other charges as may be prescribed by the regulations in accordance with the guidelines prescribed by the State Government; (ix) to create post of teachers, other employees and officers other than Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor and to lay down and regulate pay-scales, allowances and conditions of service of such teaching, non-teaching staff and other employees and officers; (x) to borrow, with the approval of the State Government whether on the security of the property of the University or otherwise moneys for the purposes of the University; (xi) to acquire and hold property both movable and immovable and to sanction the transfer, lease and mortgage, sale or disposal of the same under the intimation to the State Government; (xii) to cause an inspection or an inquiry to be made in respect of any matter concerning the conduct, working and finance of colleges, institutions or departments of the University; (xiii) to regulate and provide for attendance of the teachers on the premises of the University or colleges or institutions during teaching hours and beyond teaching hours and to prohibit teachers from taking or conducting private tuition or private coaching classes; (xiv) to establish, maintain and manage, whenever necessary-

(a) Information Bureau, (b) Distance Education Department, Continuing Education Department, and (c) such other activities, as may be necessary and possible, to fulfill the objects of the University;

(xv) to co-operate or collaborate with any other University , institution, authority or organisation for research and advisory services, and for such purposes to enter into appropriate agreement with them to conduct certain courses, as the situation may demand; (xvi) to evolve an operational scheme for ensuring accountability of teachers, non-vacation academic staff and non-teaching staff of the University , institutions and colleges; (xvii) to build and recognise hostels and inspect such hostels and to withdraw recognition; (xviii) to institute and award fellowships, travelling fellowships, scholarships, studentships, exhibitions, medals and prizes; (xix) to fix remuneration of examiners and to arrange for the conduct and for publishing the results of the University examinations and other tests; (xx) to make provisions for instruction, teaching and training in such branches of learning and courses of study as it may think fit, for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge; (xxi) to make such provisions which enables affiliated or recognised or approved institutions to undertake specialisation in studies; (xxii) to organise and make provisions for language laboratories, libraries, archieves, museums and other equipments for teaching and research; (xxiii) to establish, manage and maintain departments, colleges, schools, institutions of higher learning and institutions of research and specialised studies, library and hostels; (xxiv) to institute and confer degrees, titles, diplomas and other academic distinctions and to recommend for and conferment of honorary degrees and academic distinctions in such manner as may be prescribed; (xxv) to make, amend or repeal the regulations; (xxvi) to make provisions relating to the use of Sanskrit, Gujarati and English languages, as the media of instruction and examination; (xxvii) to assess the feasibility of and take decision on proposals for affiliation of a college or a recognition or approval of institution, a University department or a University college entitling it to privileges in the matters of admission of students, prescribing the courses of study, imparting instruction, teaching and training in the courses of study, the holding and conduct of examination and power to make necessary rules for the purpose and withdrawal thereof; (xxviii) to assess the feasibility of proposals received from the Academic Council for new academic programmes and courses and approve diplomas, degrees, certificates and other academic distinctions; (xxix) to arrange for, and to direct, the inspection of affiliated colleges, recognised institutions, approved institutions and hostels, to issue instructions for maintaining their efficiency and for ensuring proper conditions of employment for members of their staff, and in case of disregard of such instruction to modify the conditions of their affiliation or recognition or to take such other steps as deemed proper; (xxx) to supervise and control the residence, conduct and discipline of the students of the colleges, University departments and recognised and approved institutions and arrangements for promoting their health and general welfare and disciplinary action against the students; (xxxi) to recommend to the State Government for the withdrawal or reduction of grant to a college which makes default in carrying out the conditions of affiliation; (xxxii) to recognise a member of the staff of an affiliated college or recognised institution or approved institution as a professor, a reader, a lecturer or a teacher of the University and withdraw such recognition; (xxxiii) to exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as may be conferred or imposed on it by this Act or under the regulations; (xxxiv) to exercise all powers of the University not otherwise provided for in this Act or the Regulations and all other powers which are required to give effect to the provisions of this Act or the Regulations.

(2) The exercise of powers by the Executive Council under sub-section (1) in so far as they relate to the laying down and regulating the salary scales and allowances, borrowing moneys, transferring, leasing, selling or disposing, mortgaging of any property of the University and creating posts, shall be subject to the prior approval of the State Government, if the expenditure is to be met with from Government fund.

(3) The powers and duties by the Executive Council in all academic matters under sub-section (1) shall not be exercised except upon the recommendation made by the Academic Council.

(1) The Academic Council shall be the academic body of the University and shall consist of the following persons, namely:-

(i) the Vice-Chancellor - ex-officio, Chairman,

(ii) the Secretary to Government, Education Department, ex-officio,

(iii) the Commissioner of Higher Education, Gujarat State or an officer not below the rank of the Joint Director of Higher Education nominated by the Commissioner, ex-officio,

(iv) the Commissioner of Schools, Gujarat State or an officer not below the rank of the Joint Director of Schools Education,

(v) the Chairman, Gujarat State Examination Board, ex-officio,

(vi) five eminent persons to be nominated by the Chancellor who have made significant contribution in the field of Sanskrit, out of whom one shall be a woman and one shall be an eminent person from out of the State of Gujarat,

(vii) five distinguished persons to be nominated by the State Government from amongst distinguished or eminent persons who have made significant contribution in the field of Sanskrit and its literature, out of whom one shall be a woman and one shall be a distinguished person from out of the State of Gujarat,

(viii) two eminent scholars to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor,

(ix) four Deans of Faculties to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor form amongst the Deans of Faculties by rotation in such manner as may be prescribed,

(x) one principal of the college nominated by the Vice-Chancellor from amongst the principals of the colleges by rotation in such manner as may be prescribed,

(xi) one teacher of the affiliated college nominated by the Vice-Chancellor from amongst the teachers of the affiliated colleges,

(xii) one teacher of the recognised or approved institution nominated by the Vice-Chancellor from amongst the teachers of the recognised or approved institution,

(xiii) one woman teacher of the affiliated college, recognised or approved institution from amongst the women teachers of the affiliated colleges, recognised or approved institutions,

(xiv) the Director (Research).

(2) As soon as the Academic Council is constituted under sub-section (1), it may co-opt two eminent persons who are experts in any of the subjects taught in the University, as its additional members, whether they are or are not connected with the University as its members, teachers or otherwise.

(3) The term of office of the nominated members of the Academic Council shall be for a period of three years.

(1) The Academic Council shall have the control and general regulation of, and be responsible for, the maintenance of the standards of teaching and examinations conducted by the University.

(2) Without prejudice to the generally of the foregoing provisions and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by or under the provisions of this Act, the Academic Council shall consider and approve the draft regulations and recommend the Executive Council to make regulations on the following matters, namely:-

(i) academic matters including laying down courses of study on the different subjects, as proposed by the concerned Faculty;

(ii) special courses of study as proposed by the Faculty;

(iii) co-ordination of studies and teaching in affiliated colleges, recognised institutions and approved institutions;

(iv) allocation of subjects to the Faculties;

(v) the establishment of Faculties, University Departments, institutions of research and specialised studies, libraries and language laboratories;

(vi) the institution of professorships, readerships, lectureships and any other posts of teachers required by the University and for prescribing the duties of such posts;

(vii) the institution of fellowships, traveling fellowships, scholarships, studentships and medals and other awards and to make regulations for their award;

(viii) the conduct of examinations of the University and the conditions on which students shall be admitted in such examination; (ix) the equivalence of examinations;

(x) the manner of grant of exemption from approved courses of study in the University or in affiliated colleges for qualifying for degrees, diplomas and certificates;

(xi) affiliation of a college and recognition or approval of an institution;

(xii) the institution, conferment and grant of degrees, diplomas and certificates and the conferment of honorary degrees and other academic distinctions, in such manner as may be prescribed.

(3) The Academic Council shall promote research in the subject taught in the University and such other matters as may be prescribed.

(4) The Academic Council shall exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as may be conferred or imposed on it by this Act or under the regulations.

(1) The University shall have the following Faculties:-

(a) Faculty of Sahitya (including Vedic study, Sanskrit language and its literature),

(b) Faculty of Darshan ( Indian Philosophy),

(c) Faculty of Indian culture and Fine Arts including tradition of falklore of the State of Gujarat,

(d) Faculty of Teachers’ training (Shikshak-Prashikshan),

(e) Faculty of modern science and ancient shastras such as Dharmashasra, Puranas, Ayurved, Astronomy, Menuscriptology, Epigraphy, Physics and Chemistry, (f) Faculty of a comparative study.

(g) Such other Faculties as may be prescribed to meet with the objects and functions of the University,

Each faculty shall comprise of such subjects as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(2) Each Faculty shall consist of –

(i) Dean of the Faculty, who shall be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor from amongst University teachers and college teachers by rotation in such manner as may be prescribed,

(ii) three teachers nominated by the Vice-Chancellor from the University Departments other than the Deans of Faculty and colleges,

(iii) two persons to be co-opted by the Faculty in respect of each Department in the Faculty from amongst such persons who are experts in the subjects dealt with by the Department.

(3) The term of the office of a member of a Faculty shall be such as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(1) Each Faculty shall have the general control and power of regulation of, and be responsible for, the maintenance of standards of teaching and examinations of the University for subjects comprised in it.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by or under the provisions of this Act, the Faculty shall consider and refer the following matters to the Academic Council for recommending the Executive Council to make regulations on those matters, namely: -

(i) laying down courses of study in the Faculty;

(ii) the special courses of study in the Faculty;

(iii) the standards of passing the relevant examinations in the Faculty and for awarding classes at such examinations;

(iv) for promoting research in the subjects assigned to the Faculty;

(v) allocation of subjects to the Faculty;

(vi) the establishment of departments, institutions of research and specialised studies, libraries, laboratories and museums concerned with the Faculty;

(vii) the institution of professorships, readerships, lecturerships and any other posts of teachers in the Faculty and for prescribing the duties of persons occupying such posts;

(viii) the institution of fellowships, travelling fellowships, scholarships, studentships, medals, prizes and other awards and to make Regulations for their grant;

(ix) the maximum work load of teachers, the minimum teaching work for every subject and the minimum laboratory work and any other prescribed work to be done by students for any subject in the Faculty;

(x) the equivalence of examinations;

(xi) the manner for granting exemption from approved courses of study in the University or in affiliated colleges for qualifying for degrees, diplomas and certificates in the Faculty;

(xii) to refer such other matters for the furtherance of the objects of the University.

(1) The Vice-Chancellor shall nominate Dean of each Faculty by rotation in such manner as may be prescribed from amongst persons who are the Heads of University Departments.

(2) The Dean shall hold office for a term of three years.

(3) The Dean shall be the principal executive authority of the Faculty, and shall exercise the following powers and discharge the following duties, namely:-

(i) he shall be the Chairperson of the Faculty and shall preside at its meetings;

(ii) he may attend the meeting of the Faculty;

(iii) he shall supervise and co-ordinate the work of the different the Faculty;

(iv) he shall plan and organise seminars, refresher courses and workshops, pertaining to the subjects under the Faculty;

(v) he shall inspect and guide the University Departments, affiliated colleges, recognised institutions and approved institutions in respect of subjects under the Faculty; and in case where he considers it necessary to do so, also make a report of such inspection to the Vice-Chancellor;

(vi) he shall be responsible for the due observance of the Regulations relating to the Faculty.

(1) The University shall constitute a Finance and Accounts Committee.

(2) The constitution of committee, the term of office of its members and the procedure to be followed by it shall be such as may be prescribed.

(3) The Finance and Accounts Committee shall discharge the following functions, namely:-

(a) to review the expenditure incurred by the University;

(b) to ensure proper utilization of the money by the University according to budget provisions;

(c) to review the position of financial resources of the University;

(d) to formulate budget programmes;

(e) to recommend economy in administrative expenses;

(f) to perform such other functions relating to accounts and audit of the revenue and expenditure of the University as may be assigned to it by the Executive Council; and

(g) to advise the Executive Council in financial matters whenever such advice is sought by the Executive Council.