Chapter II THE UNIVERSITY.

(1) (a) There shall be established and constituted in and for the State of Gujarat a University to be known as "the CEPT University, Ahmedabad." (b) The first Chairman, the first President, the first Director, the first Deans, the first Registrar of the University and the first Members of the Board, the Executive Council, the Academic and Research Council, the Finance and Development Committee and all other 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 CEPT University. (2) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall sue and be sued by the said name. (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, and to contract and do all other things necessary for the purposes of this Act. (4) The headquarters of the University shall be at Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

The objects of the University, in general, shall be to conduct educational, tranning, distance and continuing education programmes at diploma and degree levels and at post-graduate levels including doctoral level and carry on research and consultancy in the areas of developed and natural environment for the human society and related disciplines including arts, science and culture and in particular, shall be,- (i) to establish a Centre of Excellence in its areas of relevance and attract the best talents at national and international level; (ii) to undertake educational, research and development activities and to become a Resource Centre in the service of the society and the profession by developing data bases and reference in design, planning, technology, services and management and develop curricula, syllabi and all related facilities for the conduct of the same, and for its recognition and approval from National and International Accreditation Boards or Agencies for the purposes of employment or further education;

(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 ground of sex, race, creed, caste, class, place of birth, religious belief, profession or political or other opinion.

(2) It shall not be lawful for the University to impose on any person any test whatsoever relating to sex, race, creed, 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) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the University shall exercise the following powers and perform the following duties, namely:-

(i) to administer and manage the University and such campuses, within or without the country for research, education, training and instruction as are necessary for the furtherance of the objects of the University;

(ii) to conduct and to prescribe course and curricula and provide for flexibility in the education system and delivery methodologies including electronic and distance learning;

(iii) to confer degrees, diplomas or grant certificates and other academic distinctions or titles on persons as the University may determine, and to withdraw or cancel any such degree, diploma, certificate or other academic distinction or title in the manner prescribed by the regulations;

(iv) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner prescribed by the regulations;

(v) to establish specialised study centres or other units for research and instruction as are, in the opinion of the University, necessary for the furtherance of its objects;

(vi) to collaborate or associate with, advise and to develop and maintain linkages with educational or other institutions in any part of the world having objects wholly or partially similar to those of the University, through exchange of teachers and scholars and generally in such manner as may be conducive to their common objects;

(vii) to fix, demand and receive or recover fees and such other charges in accordance with guidelines issued by the State Government, the University Grants Commission and the All India Council for Technical Education;

(viii) to prescribe qualifications for the admission to the courses offered by the University and admit the students as per the guidelines issued by the State Government in this regard for the courses offered by the University, in such manner as may be prescribed by the regulations;

(ix) to create academic, technical, administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointments thereto;

(x) to supervise and control the residence and regulate the discipline amongst the students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health, general welfare and cultural activities;

(xi) to appoint persons as professors, associate professors, assistant professors, readers, lecturers or otherwise as teachers and researchers of the University;

(xii) to regulate and enforce discipline amongst the employees of the University and to provide for such disciplinary measures as may be prescribed by the regulations;

(xiii) to receive funds from industry, national and international organisations and from any other source as gifts, donations, benefactions, bequests and by transfers of movable and immovable properties under the intimation of the State Government;

(xiv) to purchase or to take on lease or accept as gifts or otherwise any land or building or works which may be necessary or convenient for perposes of the University on such terms and conditions as it may think fit and proper, and to construct or alter and maintain any such building or works;

(xv) to sell, exchange, lease or otherwise dispose of movable or immovable property of the University, on such terms as it may think fit and proper without prejudice to the interests and activities of the Univeisity:

Provided that the University shall not sell, exchange, lease or otherwise dispose of movable or immovable property granted by the State Government without prior approval of the State Government or without compliance of the terms and conditions on which the State Government has given approval;

(xvi) to raise and borrow money on bond, mortgages, promissory notes or other obligations or securities founded or based upon all or any of the properties and assets of the University or without any securities upon such terms and conditions as it may think fit and to pay out of the funds of the University all expenses incidental to the raising of money, and to repay and redeem money borrowed:

Provided that the such power shall be exercised after obtaining previous approval of the State Government and as per the directions, if any, of the Central Government in this regard;

(xvii) to invest the funds of the University in or upon such securities and transpose any investment from time to time in such manner as may be prescribed by the regulations;

(xviii) to delegate all or any of its powers to the President or the Director or any committee or sub-committee constituted by any authority of the University or to any one or more members of the Board of the University or to any officer of the University; and

(xix) to do all such other acts and things as the University may consider necessary, conducive or incidental to the attainment or enlargement of all or any of the objects of the University.

(2) The University shall function as a non-affiliating University established under this Act.