Chapter VIII CONDITIONS OF SERVICE

(1) The University shall institute for the benefit of its officers, teachers and other persons employed by the University, such pension, gratuity, insurance and provident fund, as it may deem fit in such manner and subject to such conditions, as may be prescribed. (2) Where the University has instituted a provident fund under sub-section (1), the Government may declare that the provisions of the Provident Funds Act, 1925 (Central Act XIX of 1925) shall apply to such fund as if the University were a local authority and the fund a Government Provident Fund. (3) The University may, in consultation with the Finance Committee, invest the provident fund amount in such manner as it may determine.

Subject to the provisions of this Act, the appointment, procedure for selection, pay and allowances and other conditions of service of officers, teachers and other persons employed in the University shall be such as may be prescribed. Explanation.- For the purposes of this section, the word 'officers' shall not include the Chancellor and the Pro-Chancellor.

(1) Each Department of the University shall have a Head who shall be a Professor and whose duties and functions and terms and conditions of appointment shall be as may be prescribed: Provided that if there is more than one Professor in any Department, the Head of the Department shall be appointed in the manner prescribed: Provided further that in a Department where there is no Professor, an Associate Professor or an Assistant Professor may be appointed as Head of the Department in the manner prescribed. (2) It shall be open to a Professor or Associate Professor or Assistant Professor to decline the offer of appointment as Head of the Department. (3) A person appointed as Head of the Department shall hold office as such for a period of three years and shall be eligible for reappointment. (4) A Head of the Department may resign his office at any time during his tenure of office. (5) A Head of the Department shall perform such functions as may be prescribed.

Every Dean of Faculty shall be appointed in such manner and shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as are specified in the first statutes.