Chapter II THE UNIVERSITY

(1) There shall be established a university by the name "the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences" with jurisdiction over the whole of the State of Karnataka. (2) The University shall be a body corporate by the name specified in sub-section (1) and shall have perpetual succession and common seal. It shall have power to acquire, hold and dispose of property, both movable and immovable, and shall sue and be sued by the said name. (3) In all suits and other legal proceedings, by or against the University, the pleadings shall be singed and verified by the Registrar and all processes in such suits and proceedings shall be issued to and served on the Registrar. (4) The headquarters of the University 1[shall be at Ramanagara] 1. Substituted by Act 20 of 2007 w.e.f. 10.8.2007 and it may establish additional campuses at such other places with the prior approval of the Government within the State as it may deem fit and appropriate. (5) The University shall be both a teaching and an affiliating University.

1. (2) The University shall be a body corporate by the name specified in sub-section (1) and shall have perpetual succession and common seal. It shall have power to acquire, hold and dispose of property, both movable and immovable, and shall sue and be sued by the said name.
2. (3) In all suits and other legal proceedings, by or against the University, the pleadings shall be singed and verified by the Registrar and all processes in such suits and proceedings shall be issued to and served on the Registrar.
3. (4) The headquarters of the University

1[shall be at Ramanagara]

¹ Substituted by Act 20 of 2007 w.e.f. 10.8.2007

and it may establish additional campuses at such other places with the prior approval of the Government within the State as it may deem fit and appropriate.

1. (5) The University shall be both a teaching and an affiliating University.

Subject to the provisions of this Act and such conditions as may be prescribed by the Statutes and the Ordinances, the University shall have the following powers, namely:- (i) to provide for instruction and training in such branches of medicine and allied sciences, as may be considered suitable and to make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in health sciences, striving to maintain at all times highest possible standards of academic excellence; (ii) to institute and award degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions for persons who shall have pursued approved courses of study in a University college or affiliated colleges unless exempted therefrom in the manner prescribed and shall have passed the prescribed examinations of the University, or shall have carried on research satisfactorily under conditions as may be prescribed; (iii) to develop, upgrade and start departments in medical specialities as may be required and to provide instruction for such courses of study as it may determine; (iv) to hold examinations and to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions under conditions as may be prescribed; (v) to prescribe conditions under which the award of any degree, title, diploma and other academic distinctions may be withheld; (vi) to institute, maintain and administer University colleges, hospitals and laboratories and institutes of research, libraries or other institutions, necessary to carry out the objects of the University. (vii) to affiliate or recognise colleges and institutions and to withdraw such affiliation or recognition; (viii) to institute, suspend or abolish University Professorships, Associate Professorships, Readerships, Assistant Professorships, Lecturerships and other teaching posts in the University and to make suitable appointments thereto; (ix) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, studentships, stipends, medals and prizes; (x) to establish, maintain and administer hostels, to recognise hostels not managed by the University and to suspend or withdraw such recognition therefrom; (xi) to exercise such control over the students of the University as to secure their health, well being and discipline and to exercise through the affiliated colleges control for similar purposes over the students of affiliated colleges; (xii) to manage and control all immovable properties transferred to the University by the Government for the purpose of this Act; (xiii) to accept, hold and manage any endowments, donations or funds which may become vested in it for the purposes of the University by grant, testamentary disposition or otherwise, and to invest such endowments, donations or funds in any manner that the University may deem fit: Provided that no donation from a foreign country, foreign foundation or any person in such country, foundation shall be accepted by the University save with the approval of the Government; (xiv) to borrow money with or without security for such purposes as may be approved by the Government from the Central Government, the University Grants Commission or other incorporated bodies subject to the provisions of this Act; (xv) to fix fees and demand and collect such fees as may be prescribed; (xvi) to undertake publication of works of merit and research pertaining to health sciences; (xvii) to organise, regulate and control University union; (xviii) to maintain an Employment Bureau; (xix) to co-operate with other Universities and academic institutions; (xx) to establish and maintain University libraries, research station, museums and press and publication bureau; (xxi) to establish research posts and to appoint suitable persons to such posts; (xxii) to establish suitable residential accommodation to the staff of the University to the extent feasible; (xxiii) to award prizes and medals to deserving students, on the basis of approved endowments; (xxiv) generally to do such other acts or make such other provisions as may be deemed necessary or desirable to further the objects of the

1. (i) to provide for instruction and training in such branches of medicine and allied sciences, as may be considered suitable and to make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in health sciences, striving to maintain at all times highest possible standards of academic excellence;
2. (ii) to institute and award degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions for persons who shall have pursued approved courses of study in a University college or affiliated colleges unless exempted therefrom in the manner prescribed and shall have passed the prescribed examinations of the University, or shall have carried on research satisfactorily under conditions as may be prescribed;
3. (iii) to develop, upgrade and start departments in medical specialities as may be required and to provide instruction for such courses of study as it may determine;
4. (iv) to hold examinations and to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions under conditions as may be prescribed;
5. (v) to prescribe conditions under which the award of any degree, title, diploma and other academic distinctions may be withheld;
6. (vi) to institute, maintain and administer University colleges, hospitals and laboratories and institutes of research, libraries or other institutions, necessary to carry out the objects of the University.
7. (vii) to affiliate or recognise colleges and institutions and to withdraw such affiliation or recognition;
8. (viii) to institute, suspend or abolish University Professorships, Associate Professorships, Readerships, Assistant Professorships, Lecturerships and other teaching posts in the University and to make suitable appointments thereto;
9. (ix) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, studentships, stipends, medals and prizes;
10. (x) to establish, maintain and administer hostels, to recognise hostels not managed by the University and to suspend or withdraw such recognition therefrom;
11. (xi) to exercise such control over the students of the University as to secure their health, well being and discipline and to exercise through the affiliated colleges control for similar purposes over the students of affiliated colleges;
12. (xii) to manage and control all immovable properties transferred to the University by the Government for the purpose of this Act;
13. (xiii) to accept, hold and manage any endowments, donations or funds which may become vested in it for the purposes of the University by grant, testamentary disposition or otherwise, and to invest such endowments, donations or funds in any manner that the University may deem fit: Provided that no donation from a foreign country, foreign foundation or any person in such country, foundation shall be accepted by the University save with the approval of the Government;
14. (xiv) to borrow money with or without security for such purposes as may be approved by the Government from the Central Government, the University Grants Commission or other incorporated bodies subject to the provisions of this Act;
15. (xv) to fix fees and demand and collect such fees as may be prescribed;
16. (xvi) to undertake publication of works of merit and research pertaining to health sciences;
17. (xvii) to organise, regulate and control University union;

(xviii) to maintain an Employment Bureau;

1. (xix) to co-operate with other Universities and academic institutions;
2. (xx) to establish and maintain University libraries, research station, museums and press and publication bureau;

1. (xxi) to establish research posts and to appoint suitable persons to such posts;
2. (xxii) to establish suitable residential accommodation to the staff of the University to the extent feasible;

(xxiii) to award prizes and medals to deserving students, on the basis of approved endowments;

1. (xxiv) generally to do such other acts or make such other provisions as may be deemed necessary or desirable to further the objects of the

Jurisdiction and admission to privileges .- (1) No college in the State of Karnataka imparting education in health sciences shall, save with the consent of the University and the sanction of the Government, be associated in any way with or seek admission to any privileges of any other University in India or abroad.

1. (2) Any such privilege enjoyed from other University before the appointed date by any medical college or institution of health sciences situated in the State shall be deemed to be withdrawn with effect from such date.
2. (3) With effect on and from the date of commencement of this Act, all colleges and autonomous institutions of health sciences previously admitted to the privileges of or affiliated to the Universities of Mysore, Bangalore,

University open to all .- (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 sole ground of sex, race, creed, class, place of birth, religious belief or political or other opinion: Provided that the University may, subject to the previous sanction of the Government, maintain, affiliate or recognise any college exclusively for women, or reserve seats for women or members of classes and communities which are socially or educationally backward for the purposes of admission as students to any of the institutions maintained by the University.

1. (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), the University shall in accordance with the special or general directions of the Government reserve seats for the purpose of admission as students in any college or institution maintained or controlled by the University for the following classes of persons, namely:-
   • (i) the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes;
   • (ii) classes declared by the Government from time to time to be socially and educationally backward.

Government may at any time by notification in the Official Gazette, transfer any Government college of health sciences to the University and from the date of such transfer the said college shall be a University college;

1. (2) When any Government college is transferred to the University under sub-section (1) with effect from the date on which such transfer takes place, the following consequences shall ensue, namely:
   • (i) all the assets including the properties and liabilities pertaining to the said college shall stand transferred to and vest in the University;
   • (ii) all members of the teaching staff or other employees of the said college, who immediately before the date of such transfer were serving in or were attached to that college, shall stand transferred

to the appropriate cadre or category of posts in the University on the same conditions of service as were applicable to him before such transfer and unless and until such conditions are altered with the consent of such person;

Provided that no such member of the teaching staff or other employee of the said college shall be transferred unless he exercised his consent in this behalf; Provided further that if any such teacher or other employee, doesn't give his consent for such transfer, he shall notwithstanding any contract or anything contained in any provision of law for the time being in force, be retired from service. He shall not be entitled for any damages, or compensation in respect of such retirement but shall be entitled to all benefits of retirement for the period of service rendered by him till the date of retirement.

(1) The Government shall have the right to cause an inspection, to be made by such person or persons as it may direct, of the affairs and properties of the University, its buildings, laboratories, libraries, museums, work shops and equipments and of any college or institution maintained, administered, recognised or approved by the University and also of examinations teaching and other work conducted or done by the University or in respect of any matter connected with the University. The Government shall, in every case, give notice to the University of its intention to cause such inspection or inquiry to be made, and the University shall be entitled to be represented thereat and to be heard at such inspection or inquiry. (2) The Government shall forward to the Vice-Chancellor a copy of the inspection report for obtaining the views of the Syndicate thereon, and on receipt of such views, the Government may tender such advice as it may consider necessary and fix a time limit for action to be taken by the University. (3) The Syndicate shall within the time limit so fixed by the Government report to the Government through the Vice-Chancellor the action which has been taken or is proposed to be taken on the advice by the Government. (4) Where the Syndicate does not, within the time limit fixed, take action to the satisfaction of the Government, the Government may, after considering any explanation furnished or representation made by the Syndicate issue such directions, as it may think fit and the University shall comply with such directions.

1. (2) The Government shall forward to the Vice-Chancellor a copy of the inspection report for obtaining the views of the Syndicate thereon, and on receipt of such views, the Government may tender such advice as it may consider necessary and fix a time limit for action to be taken by the University.
2. (3) The Syndicate shall within the time limit so fixed by the Government report to the Government through the Vice-Chancellor the action which has been taken or is proposed to be taken on the advice by the Government.
3. (4) Where the Syndicate does not, within the time limit fixed, take action to the satisfaction of the Government, the Government may, after considering any explanation furnished or representation made by the Syndicate issue such directions, as it may think fit and the University shall comply with such directions.