Chapter III OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIVERSITY

1. (1) to supply the required manpower of appropriate kind and quality to meet the needs of society and national development plans;
2. (2) to advance frontiers of knowledge by research, innovation, invention and product improvement;
3. (3) to develop in the youth a sensitivity to environment and to inculcate a consciousness of the real problems and social needs;
4. (4) to derive benefits from the ever growing scientific and technological knowledge in different parts of the world;
5. (5) to formulate general goals and responsibilities of technological education in the service of man and the nation;
6. (6) to develop good entrepreneurial abilities among the youth;
7. (7) to contribute to smooth and effective transfer of technology to the agencies that require them in the community; and
8. (8) to affiliate all Technical Education Institutions excluding Polytechnics, ITSs and ITCs. 1[(9) undertake necessary or expedient action to pursue and promote the objectives of the university as a non-profit organization.]1

¹ Inserted bye Act 36 of 2015 w.e.f 01.04.1998

(1) Admission to the University shall, subject to the provisions of this Act and statutes, be open to all persons: Provided that nothing in this section shall require, the University to admit to any course of study students larger in number than or with academic or other qualifications lower than those prescribed.

1. (2) Subject to the proviso to sub-section (1), the Government may direct that the University shall reserve in its constituent colleges seats for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe and such socially and educationally backward classes of citizens, children and wards of the defence personnel, ex-servicemen, sportsmen, N.C.C, Scouts etc. as may be declared by the State Government in this behalf and where such direction has been given the University and its constituent colleges shall make reservations accordingly.