Chapter III ESTABLISHMENT, CONSTITUTION, POWERS AND DUTIES

A member of the Board or Governing Council, except an ex officio member, may resign from his office at any time by tendering his resignation in writing to the Chairman of the Board or Chairman of the Governing Council, as the case may be, and such member shall be deemed to have vacated his office as soon as the Chairman has accepted his resignation.

(1) The Government may, on the recommendation of the Board and after making such further inquiry, as it may think fit, by order, remove any member of the Board or Governing Council or any Committee thereof, if such member,— (a) has been convicted by a court for any offence involving moral turpitude; or (b) is an undischarged insolvent; or (c) has been declared physically disabled by such medical authority as the Government may specify; or (d) is of unsound mind and stands so declared by the competent court; or (e) is acting in a way detrimental to the aims and objects of the Board: Provided that no such recommendation shall be made by the Board or no order shall be made under clause (e) unless he has been given a reasonable opportunity of showing cause why such recommendation or order should not be made. (2) The Government may suo motu by order remove any member of the Board or Governing Council or any Committee, nominated or appointed, whose activities are, in the opinion of the Government detrimental to or obstruct, the proper functioning of the Board or Governing Council or of any Committee thereof: Provided that no member shall be removed from office unless he has been given a reasonable opportunity of showing cause why such order should not be made against him. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) and (2), the nominated member of the Board shall hold office during the pleasure of the Government and shall be removed at any time by the Government, if it deems fit. (1) (a) to (d) ... (e) is acting in a way detrimental to the aims and objects of the Board: Provided that no such recommendation shall be made by the Board or no order shall be made under clause (e) unless he has been given a reasonable opportunity of showing cause why such recommendation or order should not be made. (2) The Government may suo motu by order remove any member of the Board or Governing Council or any Committee, nominated or appointed, whose activities are, in the opinion of the Government detrimental to or obstruct, the proper functioning of the Board or Governing Council or of any Committee thereof: Provided that no member shall be removed from office unless he has been given a reasonable opportunity of showing cause why such order should not be made against him. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) and (2), the nominated member of the Board shall hold office during the pleasure of the Government and shall be removed at any time by the Government, if it deems fit.

(1) The Board shall meet not less than twice in every year and period of not more than six months shall intervene between two successive meetings. (2) The Chairman of the Board may at any time if the exigencies so demand, and upon a written request made by not less than one-third of the total members of the Board, shall call a special meeting of the Board, on a day not later than twenty-one days after the receipt of such request by the Chairman.

If the Chairman or a member of the Board or Governing Council or any Committee is disqualified under section 11, his office shall thereupon be declared vacant by the Government.

If a member nominated or appointed to the Board or Governing Council remains absent without permission of the Board or Governing Council from three consecutive meetings thereof, his office shall thereupon become vacant and shall be so declared by the Chairman of the Board or Governing Council, as the case may be.

In case of any dispute as to whether the office of the Chairman or a member has become vacant under section 13 or section 14, the decision of the Government shall be final.

No act or proceeding of the Board or any Committee shall be invalid merely by reason of any vacancy in or any defect in the constitution of the Board or Committee.

The Board may invite any person who in its opinion is an expert in the field of education or any officer of the Government, to attend its meeting or of its Committee, if the subject with which the expert or officer is concerned is likely to come up for discussion or consideration at such meeting.

(1) The Board shall constitute the following Committees, namely:— (a) Academic Committee; (b) Finance Committee; (c) Affiliation Committee; (d) Examination Committee. (2) The Board may constitute such other Committees as it thinks necessary for efficient performance of its functions. (3) The number of members of every Committee constituted by the Board, the term of office of its members and the duties and functions to be discharged by such Committee shall be such as may be prescribed.

Subject to the provisions of this Act, the powers and functions of the Academic Committee shall be as follows, namely:— (a) to deal with policy matters relating to teaching and training of students; (b) to frame general rules for admissions and migration of students; (c) to recommend syllabi of various courses for approval of the Board; (d) to recommend to the department for creation or abolition of posts in the interest of effective teaching in various disciplines; (e) to recommend equivalency for various courses to the Board; (f) to constitute sub-committees to discharge its functions.

Subject to the provisions of this Act, the powers and functions of the Affiliation Committee shall be as follows, namely:— (a) to recommend grant of affiliation to new institution or new courses with intake capacity to the Board for approval; (b) to recommend grant/withdrawal of extension of affiliation to existing institution/ courses with intake capacity to the Board for approval; (c) to recommend grant/withdrawal of accreditation of affiliated institution/courses to the Board for approval; (d) to recommend for gradation/ranking of affiliated institutions/ courses; (e) to constitute sub-committees to discharge its functions.

Subject to the provisions of this Act, the powers and functions of the Examination Committee shall be as follows, namely:— (a) it shall be responsible for making all arrangements for smooth conduct and supervision of examination including moderation of papers, publication of results, appointment of examiners, invigilators, superintendent, deputy superintendent, paper setters, moderators and other employees connected thereto; (b) it may impose any of the punishment after making the inquiry and giving an opportunity provided in sub-section (1) of section 37.

Subject to the provisions of this Act, the powers and functions of the Finance Committee shall be as follows, namely:— (a) to prepare the annual budget and recommend for approval of the Board; (b) to accept the audit report; (c) to exercise such financial and other powers as delegated by the Board or by the Governing Council; (d) to recommend creation/abolition of the posts to the Board; (e) to approve the expenditure and purchase proposals for various requirements of the Board except for the secrecy work.

(1) The Board may appoint such other officers and servants as it considers necessary for the efficient performance of its functions under this Act. (2) All Group A and Group B officers shall be appointed on deputation from Government Departments, University, Statutory Boards and Corporations after approval of the Governing Council. The salaries, allowances and other conditions of service of the officers appointed under this section shall be such as may be determined by the Governing Council under clause (c) of section 5. (3) For all other category of employees except as mentioned in sub-section (2), appointment shall be made by the Board and the salaries, allowances and other conditions of service of the employees appointed under this sub-section shall be such as may be determined by the Board by regulations. (4) All officers of the Board shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as are respectively assigned to them by the Secretary under the general or special orders. (5) All officers and staff appointed under this Act except Secretary shall be the employees of the Board.

Subject to the provisions of this Act, the powers and duties of the Board shall be as follows, namely:— (a) to advise the Government on matters of policy relating to diploma level technical education in general, and on the following matters, namely:— (i) to coordinate between national policies and State policies in diploma level technical education; (ii) to coordinate between secondary, higher secondary, degree education and diploma level education; (iii) to maintain uniform standard of diploma level technical education; (iv) to promote industry institute interaction; (b) to lay down guiding principles for determining curricula and syllabi and also to prepare the detailed curricula and syllabi for diploma level technical education, for all categories, such as, regular, sandwich, part-time, correspondence course, yearly, semester pattern and the like; (c) to prescribe and regulate standard requirements in respect of staff, buildings, furniture, equipment, stationery and other things required for diploma level institutions; (d) to prescribe and develop any book as text book and reference book or to prepare or cause to be prepared any book and print, of non-print material or to publish directly or in collaboration with any other agency, any kind of learning material for diploma level courses; (e) to prescribe the general conditions governing admission of regular candidates and ex-candidates to the examinations and to specify the conditions relating to eligibility, attendance, term-work and character, on the fulfilment of which a candidate shall have a right to be admitted to and to appear at any such examination; (f) to award certificates to candidates passing the final examination; (g) to institute and to award scholarships, fellowships, stipends, medals, prizes and other rewards and prescribe conditions therefor; (h) to receive bequests, donations, endowments, trusts and other transfers of any property, or interest therein, or right thereto; (i) to hold any property, interest or right referred to in clause (h) and to manage and deal with the same; (j) to fix demand and receive such fees and penalties as may be prescribed; (k) to call for special reports and information from the Director or from officers of the Technical Education Department, and to call for any information from any institution recognized by the Board to ensure maintenance and improvement in academic standard; (l) to recommend measures to promote physical, moral and social welfare of students in institutions recognized by the Board, and to prescribe conditions of their residence and discipline; (m) to appoint officers and employees as per the provisions of section 26; (n) to constitute provident fund for the benefit of the officers and employees of the Board; (o) to approve the annual financial statement pertaining to the Board and to recommend to the Governing Council for sanction, the annual budget; (p) to inspect and supervise generally the working of the Regional Officer, if any, and to inspect periodically the accounts thereof; (q) to conduct statistical and other research, or training programmes for the purposes of design, development, implementation and evaluation of the curriculum, teaching learning process and examination in collaboration with any agency within or outside India; (r) to appoint such Committees as it may think necessary for the efficient discharge of its functions under this Act; (s) to plan and monitor academic performance; (t) to propose the need based courses, special courses for self-employment, courses of rural, deprived persons and women; (u) to grant affiliation, accreditation, autonomous status, equivalence and reviewing, or revoking affiliation or accreditation, equivalence, or autonomous status as per regulations made under the provisions of this Act; (v) to make regulations with the approval of Governing Council for granting of academic autonomy to institute, reviewing or revoking of autonomy granted; (w) to carry out all such acts as may be necessary to achieve the objective of this Act so as to improve, extend, expand the diploma level technical education in the State and to maintain and improve standard of diploma level technical education; (k) to fix demand and receive such fees and penalties as may be prescribed; (l) to call for special reports and information from the Director or from officers of the Technical Education Department, and to call for any information from any institution recognized by the Board to ensure maintenance and improvement in academic standard; (m) to recommend measures to promote physical, moral and social welfare of students in institutions recognized by the Board, and to prescribe conditions of their residence and discipline; (n) to appoint officers and employees as per the provisions of section 26; (o) to constitute provident fund for the benefit of the officers and employees of the Board; (p) to approve the annual financial statement pertaining to the Board and to recommend to the Governing Council for sanction, the annual budget; (q) to inspect and supervise generally the working of the Regional Officer, if any, and to inspect periodically the accounts thereof; (r) to conduct statistical and other research, or training programmes for the purposes of design, development, implementation and evaluation of the curriculum, teaching learning process and examination in collaboration with any agency within or outside India; (s) to appoint such Committees as it may think necessary for the efficient discharge of its functions under this Act; (t) to plan and monitor academic performance; (u) to propose the need based courses, special courses for self-employment, courses of rural, deprived persons and women; (v) to grant affiliation, accreditation, autonomous status, equivalence and reviewing, or revoking affiliation or accreditation, equivalence, or autonomous status as per regulations made under the provisions of this Act; (w) to make regulations with the approval of Governing Council for granting of academic autonomy to institute, reviewing or revoking of autonomy granted; to carry out all such acts as may be necessary to achieve the objective of this Act so as to improve, extend, expand the diploma level technical education in the State and to maintain and improve standard of diploma level technical education; (x) to make regulations for granting affiliation, accreditation, autonomous status, equivalence, eligibility to institutes and reviewing, or revoking affiliation or accreditation, equivalence, or autonomous status or eligibility; (y) to demand and receive such fees as may be prescribed for candidates admitted to the examination, affiliation, to accredit, conferring autonomy, equivalence; (z) to conduct the examinations of the Board; (za) to appoint paper-setters, examiners, moderators, supervisors and other necessary personnel for conducting examination, assessment of candidates, performance and for compiling and release of results: (zb) to admit candidates for the examination according to the regulations; (zc) to open centres within its jurisdiction for examination conducted by it; (zd) to declare the results of the candidates appearing at the examinations conducted on such date or dates as may be fixed; (ze) to prepare a list of candidates according to merit; (zf) to deal with cases of use of unfair means according to the procedure laid down; (zg) to evaluate generally the performance of students and institution in all examinations including the final examination in diploma level technical institution; (zh) to call for any information from any institution recognized by it to ensure maintenance of academic standard, to call for special reports and information from the Regional office, if any, and from Director, Technical Education Department about the recognized institution not maintaining the required academic standard and to recommend to the Directorate, Technical Education Department, withdrawal of recognition granted under the administrative order of the Technical Education Department in cases of poor academic results and grave academic irregularities; (zi) to require institutions recognized by the Technical Education Department to extend co-operation in the conduct of the examination and to withdraw the privileges of the Board from any institution which fails to place at its disposal the facilities required to conduct examination, after giving it a reasonable opportunity of showing cause why such orders should not be made; (zj) to create, own, hold or hire any property or infrastructure required for— (i) functioning of the office of the Board; (ii) functioning of regional offices; (iii) providing residential accommodation to officers and staff of the Board; (zk) to make regulations for the purpose of carrying out effectively the provisions of this Act; (zl) to make bye-laws relating to matters such as procedure to be followed by the Board, their Committees and any other matter solely concerning the Board and their Committees that are not provided for, by or under this Act and the regulations made thereunder; (zm) to exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as may be conferred or imposed on it by or under this Act.

(1) It shall be the duty of the Chairman of the Board to ensure that the provisions of the Act and the regulations and bye-laws made thereunder are faithfully observed and he shall have all the powers necessary for this purpose. (2) In an emergency, which, in the opinion of the Chairman of the Board, requires that immediate action should be taken, the Secretary shall take such action as he deems necessary and shall thereafter report his action to the Board at its next meeting. (3) The Chairman shall exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as may be prescribed.