Chapter II ESTABLISHMENT AND INCORPORATION OF UNIVERSITY

(1) There shall be established and incorporated a University by the name of the Children's Research University. (2) The Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor, the Director General, and the members of the General Council, the Executive Council and the Academic Council, Assistant Director General, Registrar and all other persons who may hereafter become such officers so long as they continue to hold such office or membership, are hereby constitute a body corporate by the name of the Children's Research University. (3) The University shall be a body corporate by the name aforesaid, having perpetual succession and common seal with power, subject to the provisions of this Act, so acquire and hold property, to contract and shall, by the said name, sue and be sued. (4) In all suites and other legal proceedings by or against the University, the pleading shall be signed and verified by the Registrar and all processes in such suits and proceedings shall be issued to, and served on, the Registrar.

The headquarters of the University shall be at Gandhinagar or at such other place, as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify.

The objects of the University shall be as follows:- (1) to study and undertake research in the works of pioneering educationists of Gujarat, India as also of other parts of the world, who have underlined the need for child-centered holistic education so as to derive guidance from the same; (2) to promote the fundamental duties laid down in article 51A of the Constitution of India;

The powers and functions of the University shall be as follows:-

(1) to administer and manage the University and ensure efficient working of the centres, schools and institutions related to research, education, training and extension services for the furtherance of the objects of the University; (2) to regulate conduct and enforce discipline among the employees of the University and to take such measures as may be deemed necessary; (3) to prepare guidelines manuals, and methodology for assessing and accrediting educational institutes and to determine paradigms for quality assurance, processes and mechanisms; (4) to establish, conduct and promote centres, such as-(i) Centre of Research, (ii) Centre of Education, (iii) Centre of Training, (iv) Centre of Extension Services, and (v) such other centres and institutions as may be necessary and to provide for facilities, including those relating to a Centre of Paediatrics and pedagogy for scientific discoveries and inventions, pedagogy for fine arts, pedagogy for crafts, promotion of NSS and NCC, promotion of Scouts and Guides, multi-linguistic capacities (Gujarati, Sanskrit, French, English, Hindi, Tamil, Arabic, Spanish, etc.), development of curricular, co-curricular and extracurricular hobbies, puppetry, exhibitions, unending education, museum studies, library and film studios, etc. (5) to partner with existing schools and research institutions; (6) to confer and award degrees, diplomas, and certificates and provide for lectures, instruction and training for students including those of affiliated schools, recognized institutions and approved institutions as also for those under correspondence and continuing education courses; (7) to confer honorary degrees or other academic distinctions; (8) to develop academic relationship with shishu-vatikas, bal-mandirs, and primary and secondary schools which satisfy the need and standards of the University and to empower them to receive the benefits of the results of the work of the University, and gradually to the entire education system of the State; (9) to create in the University campus as also elsewhere, schools to be called Vidya Niketan Schools for various stages of education which will embody and crystallise the results of the research conducted by the University or elsewhere, and to spread benefits of the work of these schools to the entire system of education in the State, and to provide training to teachers and prepare teaching-learning materials for this purpose for the benefit of the schools in the campus and also other schools in the State; (10) to set up, conduct and promote, under the responsibility of the Centre of Research, various councils for research in subjects, as the follows:-(i) synthesis of child-related knowledge-systems (Physical and medical); (ii) synthesis of child-related knowledge-systems (Psychological and Cultural); (iii) children's philosophy, children's psychology, children's science, children's technology; (iv) children's rights, human rights, fundamental duties, ideal of human unity and futuristic visions; (v) gifted children; physically and mentally challenged children; (vi) national and international education; (vii) multi-linguistic abilities in Indian and international languages; (viii) children's literature and films; and (ix) development of integral personality; (11) to set up, promote and conduct under the control and management of Centre of Research, several departments of research, instruction and communication in regard to themes, not so generic as those for the councils of research, but more specific and special as those of as pre-natal education, toddlers' education, kindergarten education, primary education and secondary education and to relevant stimulation for admiration for uplifting visions, sublime music, sublime forest life and beauty of nature, as also relevant as the synthesis to powers of creativity with those of scientific realism, etc.; (12) to set up, conduct and promote a Department of Research in testing and evaluation and to support the requirement of creating a new system of testing services for the following purposes:-(i) removing from the students the fear of the examination so that tests are available by means of computer technology as and when the students are ready for the them, and even individually; (ii) replacing the test of memory by the test of comprehension; (iii) organising test for development of personality, sterling qualities of character, and value oriented and skill oriented development; and organising tests of physical fitness; (13) to establish, conduct and promote a centre of extension services; (14) to establish, conduct and promote a centre for continuing education and of telecasting programmes of social education throughout the State, which will stimulate all-round care of the child and child education formal, non-formal and informal, including methods of education, through visits to museums and organization of exhibitions, and publications of brochures, pamphlets, occasional papers and other materials for the promotion of themes of children's care and education; (15) to develop a programme of establishment and conduct of Bal Bhavans in cities, towns and even in groups of villages as also to develop an organization, such as "Little Children's Theatre" so as to promote dramatic activities for the Children of the State; (16) to undertake, organise and conduct educational programmes for selected, recognised and affiliated Shishu Vatikas, Bal-Mandirs, and primary and secondary schools which shall be known as Vidya Niketan Schools; (17) to undertake, organise and conduct programmes for the purposes of teacher's training who shall be engaged in the work of teaching in the Vidya Niketan Schools and in affiliated, recognised and approved schools, and to provide them a general programme of introduction to philosophy of Children's Research University and to the philosophy of child-centred holistic education, as also elementary course related to the lessons of history, with special reference to Indian culture, its underlying spirituality, robust intellectuality and inexhaustible vitality as also to provide for the following:(i) specialised courses in nutrition, physical health and development of tender faculties of early childhood; (ii) new pathways in educational programmes, related to different stages of education such as infant, kindergarten, angadwadis, primary education, secondary education; (iii) new pathways in the pedagogy of fine arts, crafts, vocational courses, physical education, development of hobbies, puppetry, children's drama, children's poetry, children's stories, children's music, children's dance, emerging new avenues of children's development, etc.; (iv) in-service training programmes for candidates who wish to qualify to serve as angadwadi workers; (18) to undertake, organise and conduct, under the Centre of Education, educational programmes for the University students engaged in research for M.Phil., Ph.D. and doctoral programmes relating to child education; (19) to provide for instruction, extension, teaching and training in such branches or learning and course of study as the University may, from time to time, determine; (20) to create posts of Executive Officers, Director-General, Director, Assistant Director-General, Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors, and other members of academic and non-academic staff of equivalent responsibility, teaching or non-teaching academic posts of the University with the prior approval of the Executive Council and to prescribe the qualifications in accordance with the guidelines of the University Grants Commission or All India Council for Technical Education and other national statutory bodies and make appointments thereto; as well as to create non-teaching skilled, administrative, ministerial and other posts and to prescribe the qualifications and pay-scales with prior approval of the State Government and to make appointments thereto; (21) to appoint or recognise persons working in any other University or organisation as adjunct professors, adjunct associate professors, adjunct assistant professors, visiting professors of the University for specified periods; and to facilitate mobility of academic members within the University and to other Universities; (22) to designate a University centre or institution, to monitor, periodically inspect and evaluate the academic performance of various Centers, Schools and Institutions for ensuring proper standards of research, education, training, extension services, teaching and adequate library, laboratory, hostel and other academic facilities, in accordance with the guidelines, if any, laid down by the University Grants Commission or by the Executive Council; (23) To make special provisions for the benefit of the University education to be made available to Socially and Educationally Backward Classes and communities particularly from rural and tribal areas; (24) to supervise, control and regulate the conduct and discipline and periodical assessment of the performance of the students and employees; (25) to establish teachers' education and training institutions of innovative education and to provide for education and training for implementation of the educational innovations; (26) to endeavour to enrich the present system of education so as to make it more responsive to the ideals of Indian Nationalism and Internationalism; (27) to develop new system of education as supplementary or alternative to existing system of education; (28) to co-operate or collaborate with any other University including foreign Universities, institution, authority or organisation for research and advisory services to borrow funds for the purposes of the University on the security of the property of the University, subject to the prior approval of the State Government; (29) to borrow funds for the purposes of the University on the security of the property of the University, subject to the prior approval of the State Government; (30) to receive funds for collaboration programmes from foreign agencies subject to rules and regulations of the Central Government and State Government in that behalf; (31) to organise and undertake extra-mural teaching and extension services; (32) to fix, demand and receive fees and other charges; (33) to supervise, control and regulate admission of students; (34) to establish, organize, maintain, manage and supervise and control the functioning of centres, departments, institutions, generally, and in particular, laboratories, libraries, museums, computer centers and equipments; (35) to implement the national literacy and adult education programme through teachers and students on voluntary basis in the University system and to evolve measures to give due emphasis to the efforts and performance of the students in this area in addition to their normal academic performance, and also to evaluate the performance of the teachers in this area; (36) to hold and manage trusts and endowments and institute and award fellowships, scholarships, studentship, medals and prizes for teachers and students of the University; (37) to receive grants, subventions, subscriptions, donations and gifts for the purpose of the University and consistent with the objects for which the University is established and to allocate and disburse grants out of the fund to institutions and courses recognized by it for the purpose of developing them so as to promote children's education; (38) to consult and obtain concurrence of the various bodies in respect of recognition and accreditation granted by the statutory boards and Universities for the purpose of arriving at equivalence of the courses, programmes and evaluation system established by it with the existing standards of education; and (39) to do all such other acts and things as the University may consider necessary, conducive or incidental to the attainment or promotion of the objects of the University.

The University shall conduct its research programmes by employing various means as may be prescribed by the Statutes.

The territorial jurisdiction of the University shall extend to the whole of the State of Gujarat.

(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 grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or political or other opinion: Provided that the University may, subject to the previous sanction of the State Government, maintain, affiliate or recognize any college or institution exclusively for women either for education, instruction or residence, or reserve for women or members of classes and communities which are educationally backward, places for the purposes of admission as students in any college or institution maintained or controlled by the University. (2) It shall not be lawful for the University to impose on any person any test whatsoever relating to religion, race, caste, sex or political or other opinion in order to entitle him to be admitted as a teacher or to hold any office 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 benefaction thereof.