Powers of Syndicate.- The Syndicate shall have the following powers, namely:-

1. (i) to make Statutes and Ordinances and to amend or repeal the same;
2. (ii) to hold, control and administer the properties and funds of the University;
3. (iii) to provide for instruction and training in such branches of learning or fields of law as it may deem fit;
4. (iv) to establish Departments of Study in the University in such disciplines of learning in various fields of law as it may deem fit with the prior approval of the State Government;
5. (v) to provide for research and advancement and dissemination of knowledge in various fields of law;
6. (vi) to create posts of 1[Assistant Professor,Associate Professor]1, Professors and other teaching and non- teaching posts required by the University with the prior approval of the State Government;
7. (vii) to prescribe, in consultation with expert committees, to be appointed for the purpose, the conditions for affiliating colleges to the University;
8. (viii) to institute, degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions;
9. (ix) to confer degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions on persons who,-

1. (a) have completed an internship course consisting of a practical training of six months duration in various subordinate courts andtribunals;
2. (b) have pursued an approved course of study or training in a college or in an approved institution, unless exempted there from in the manner prescribed by the Statutes and have passed the examinations prescribed by the University;or
3. (c) have carried on research under conditions prescribed by the Statutes;
   • (x) to confer honorary degrees or other honorary distinctions on the recommendations of not less than two thirds of the members of the Syndicate;
   • (xi) to consider and take such action as it may deem fit on the annual report, the annual accounts and the financial estimates;
   • (xii) to prescribe the qualifications of teachers in the University Departments and University Colleges and the affiliated colleges in the Statutes;
   • (xiii) to appoint, on the recommendation of the selection committee of experts appointed for the purpose, University 1[Assitant Professor, Associate Professor]1, Professors and teachers, fix their emoluments , define their duties and the conditions of their service and provide for filling up of temporary vacancies;
   • (xiv) to make Statutes specifying the mode of appointment of persons to administrative and other posts, provide for filling up of temporary vacancies and define their duties and their terms and conditions of service;
   • (xv) to take disciplinary proceedings against the University Professors, 1[Associate Professor, Assistant Professor]1, teachers and other employees of the University in the manner prescribed by the Statutes and to impose such penalties as may be specified in the Statutes and to place them under suspension pending enquiry;
   • (xvi) to cause an inspection of all colleges, and other institutions affiliated or to be affiliated to the University and to take such action as may be deemednecessary;
   • (xvii) to prescribe, the manner in which and the conditions subject to which a college or institution may be designated as an autonomous college or institution and to cancel such designation; (xviii) with the concurrence of the Government, to designate any college as an autonomous college and to cancel suchdesignation;
   • (xix) to recognize, on the report of inspection commission, any college or institution outside the University area;
   • (xx) to raise on behalf of the University loans from the Central or any State Government or any corporation owned or controlled by the Central or any State Government or from the public;
4. (xxi) to borrow money for the purposes of the University with the approval of the Government on the security of the property of the University;
5. (xxii) to appoint examiners on the recommendations of the Board of Studies and to fix their remuneration; (xxiii) to charge and collect such fees as may be prescribed by the Statutes;
6. (xxiv) to conduct the University examination and approve and publish the results thereon;
7. (xxv) to appoint members to the Board of Studies;
8. (xxvi) to make Ordinances, regarding to the admission of students to the University or prescribing examinations to be recognized as equivalent to Universityexaminations; (xxvii) to establish and maintain hostels; (xxviii) to recognise hostels not maintained by the University; and to suspend or withdraw recognition of any hostel which is not conducted in accordance with the conditions subject to which such hostel was recognised;
9. (xxix) to supervise the residence of the students of the University and to make arrangements for securing their health and well-being;
10. (xxx) to award fellowships, traveling fellowships, studentships, medals and prizes in accordance with the Statutes;
11. (xxxi) to manage any publication bureau, employment bureau and University sports or athletic clubs instituted by the University; (xxxii) to review the instruction and teaching of the University; (xxxiii) to promote research within the University and to require reports from time to time of such research; (xxxiv) to administer all properties and funds placed at the disposal of the University for specific purposes;
12. (xxxv) to accept, on behalf of the University, endowments, bequests, donations, grants and transfer of any movable and immovable property of the University made to it; and (xxxvi) to delegate any of its powers to the Vice Chancellor or to a Committee constituted from among its own members appointed in accordance with theStatutes.

¹ Substituted by Act 27 of 2016 w.e.f. 08.08.2016.