Chapter II THE UNIVERSITY

1. (1) The Chancellor, the first Vice-Chancellor of the University and the first members of the Court, the Executive Council and the Academic Council 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 Bhavnagar 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 securities of its assets and to contract and do all other things necessary for the purposes of this Act: Provided that the power to raise any such loan shall be exercised after obtaining previous permission of the State Government.
4. (4) The headquarters of the University shall be at Bhavnagar.

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

1. (1) to provide for instruction, teaching and training in such branches of learning and courses of study as it may think fit, and to make provision for research, advancement and dissemination of knowledge and to conduct special under-graduate courses for talented students ;
2. (2) to make such provision as would enable University colleges, affiliated colleges, recognised institutions and approved institutions to undertake specialisation of studies ;
3. (3) to organise common laboratories, libraries, museums and other equipment for teaching and research ;
4. (4) to establish, maintain, take over by agreement and manage colleges, departments, faculties, centres and institutes of research or specialised studies;
5. (5) to establish within the University area or outside that area such field stations, specialised laboratories and other units for research and instructions as are necessary for the furtherance of its objects ;
6. (6) to institute professorships, readerships, lecturerships and any other posts of teachers required by the University ;
7. (7) to create such teaching, administrative and other posts as the University may deem necessary from time to time and to make appointments thereto ;
8. (8) to appoint or recognise persons as professors, readers or lecturers or otherwise as teachers of the University ;
9. (9) to lay down the courses of instruction for the various examinations;
10. (10) to guide teaching and research work in colleges, University departments, University centres and recognised institutions ;
11. (11) to institute degrees, diplomas and other academic titles and distinctions ;
12. (12) to hold examinations or tests and to confer degrees and diplomas on and grant certificates to persons who—
    • (a) have pursued approved courses of study in the University or in a University or 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 Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations or Rules ;
13. (13) to confer honorary degrees or other academic distinctions in the manner laid down by the Statutes ;
14. (14) to grant such diplomas to, and to provide such lectures, instruction and training for, persons who are not enrolled as students of the University, as may be determined by the Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations and Rules ;
15. (15) to withdraw or cancel any degree, diploma or certificate conferred or granted by the University, in the manner prescribed by Statutes ;
16. (16) to associate or admit educational institutions with or to the privileges of the University by way of affiliation, recognition or approval ;
17. (17) to withdraw or modify either in whole or in part, affiliation, recognition or approval of educational institutions;
18. (18) to inspect colleges, recognised institutions and approved institutions, and to take measures to ensure that proper standards of instruction, teaching and training are maintained in them, and that adequate library and laboratory provisions are made therein ;
19. (19) to lay down and regulate the salary scales, allowances and other conditions of service of the members of the teaching, other academic and non-teaching staff of the University, affiliated colleges and recognised and approved institutions ; (20)
    • (a) to control and co-ordinate the activities of, and to give financial aid to University colleges, affiliated colleges, recognised institutions and approved institutions; and
    • (b) to regulate the fees to be paid by the students in affiliated colleges, University colleges, recognised and approved institutions ;
20. (21) to hold and manage trusts and endowments ;
21. (22) to institute and to award fellowships, travelling fellowships, scholarships, studentships, medals, prizes and other awards ;
22. (23) to make special provision for the spread of University education among classes and communities which are educationally backward :
23. (24) to lay down courses of study to meet the requirements of rural planning, development and reconstruction and to provide for instruction, teaching and training in such courses;
24. (25) to make special provision for disseminating knowledge and promoting arts and culture, including holding of exhibitions ;
25. (26) to fix, to demand and to receive or recover such fees and other charges as may be prescribed by Ordinances ;
26. (27) to establish, maintain and manage hostels :
27. (28) to recognise hostels not maintained by the University, to inspect such hostels and to withdraw recognition thereof ;
28. (29) 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 ;
29. (30) to take disciplinary action against the students of the University and to impose such punishments upon them as may be deemed fit for misconduct or breach of discipline within or outside the University, including the use of unfair means at an examination or in relation thereto by themselves or by any other persons or abetment thereof ;
30. (31) to co-ordinate, supervise, regulate and control the conduct of undergraduate teaching and instruction in colleges ;
31. (32) to conduct, co-ordinate, supervise, regulate and control post-graduate teaching and research work in the University Departments, University colleges, affiliated colleges and institutions recognised or approved by the University ;
32. (33) to institute and manage :—
    • (a) Printing and Publication Department,
    • (b) University Extension Boards,
    • (c) Information Bureaux, and
    • (d) Employment Bureaux ;
33. (34) to make provision for the following activities and activities allied thereto :—
    • (a) for Continuing Education, Adult Education, Extension Services, Extra Mural teaching and other recognised educational activities ;
    • (b) for physical education, National Cadet Corps, National Service Scheme, National Sports Organisation, Military training and such other recognised activities ;
    • (c) for students' unions; and
    • (d) for Sports and athletic activities ;
34. (35) to co-operate with other Universities, authorities or associations or any other public or private bodies in such manner and for such purpose as the University may determine ;
35. (36) to promote the development of the study of Gujarati and Hindi in Devnagari script and the use of Gujarati or Hindi in Devnagari script or both as a media of instruction and examination ;
36. (37) to make arrangements for training for competitive examinations for recruitment to the services under the Union and State Governments ;
37. (38) to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of any property movable and immovable, including trust or endowed property within or outside the University area, for the purposes or objects of the University and to invest any funds representing such property in such manner as the University thinks fit ;
38. (39) to raise public loans on the security of the assets of the University for the purposes of the University, with the previous approval of the State Government ;
39. (40) to enter into any agreement for the incorporation in the University of any other institution and for taking over its rights, properties and liabilities and for any other purpose not repugnant to this Act ;
40. (41) 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 Arts, Science and other branches of learning and culture.

1. (1) No educational institution within the University area 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) Any such privileges enjoyed from the Saurashtra University before the date on which this Act comes into force by any educational institution situate within the University area shall be deemed to be withdrawn with effect from such date.
3. (3) With effect on and from such date all educational institutions admitted to the privileges of the Saurashtra University situate within the University area shall be deemed to be admitted to the privileges of the University, and such institutions shall, on and from such date cease to be associated with and to enjoy the privileges of the Saurashtra University and the Saurashtra University Act, 1965 shall thereupon cease to apply to them. The University shall, as far as may be possible and consistent with this Act, admit such institutions to all such privileges as they had from the Saurashtra University immediately before such date.
4. (4) Any educational institution in the State of Gujarat situate outside the University area or in other territories outside the State may, subject to such conditions and restrictions as the University and the State Government 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, caste, 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, or reserve for women or members of classes and communities which are educationally backward, seats for the purpose of admission as students in any institution maintained by the University.
2. (2) It shall not be lawful for the University to impose on any person any test whatsoever relating to sex, race, caste, class, place of birth, religious belief or profession, or 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 buildings, 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 intention 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 Executive Council and to the Court his views with reference to the results of such inspection or inquiry and shall, after ascertaining the opinion of the Executive Council and the Court thereon, advise the University on the action to be taken.
3. (3) The Executive Council shall report to the Chancellor such action, if any, as it has taken or may propose to take upon results of the inspection or inquiry. Such report shall be submitted with the opinion of the Court thereon and within such time as the Chancellor may direct.
4. (4) Where the Executive Council 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 Executive Council issue such directions as he may think fit and the Executive Council 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) and shall have for the purposes of such inspection or inquiry, all the powers of the Chancellor under the said sub-sections.