Chapter II Chapter II

The University

The University.-

1. (1) The Chancellor, the Pro-Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor, the Pro- Vice-Chancellor, if any, and the members of the Senate, the Syndicate and the Academic Council, for the time being, shall constitute a body corporate by the name of the University of Kerala.
2. (2) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall sue and be sued by the said name.

Territorial limits.-

1. (1) The jurisdiction of the University shall extend to the Revenue Districts of Trivandrum, Quilon, Alleppey, Kottayam, Idukki and Ernakulam of the State.
2. (2) No educational institution situated beyond the territorial limits of the University shall, save with the sanction of the Chancellor and the Government, be affiliated to the University and no educational institution within the territorial limits of the University shall, save with the sanction of the Chancellor and the Government, seek or continue affiliation to any other University established by law.

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

1. (i) to provide for instruction and training in such branches of learning as the University may deem fit, and to make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge;

1. (ia) to confer academic autonomy to an affiliated college/department of an affiliated college or university department.
   • (ii) to institute degrees, titles, diplomas and other academic distinctions;
   • (iii) to hold examinations and to confer degrees and other academic distinctions on persons who-
2. (a) shall have pursued a prescribed course of study in a college under the University, unless exempted therefrom in the manner prescribed, and shall have passed the prescribed examination; or
3. (b) shall have carried on research under prescribed conditions and which has been duly evaluated;
   • (iv) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions on distinguished persons in accordance with the conditions to be prescribed in the Statutes;
   • (v) to grant diplomas, certificates or other distinctions to persons who shall have pursued a prescribed course of study under prescribed conditions;
   • (vi) to withdraw or cancel degrees, titles, diplomas, certificates of other distinctions under conditions that may be prescribed by the Statutes, after giving the person affected a reasonable opportunity to present his case;
   • (vii) to supervise and control the residence and discipline of students of the university, colleges and recognized institutions and to make arrangements for promoting their health and general welfare;
   • (viii) to recognize hostels which are maintained by bodies other than the university and to withdraw such recognition;
   • (ix) to exercise such control over the students as will ensure their physical and moral well-being;
   • (x) to constitute a Board to entertain and if it thinks fit to adjudicate and to redress any grievances of the students of colleges, who may for any reason be aggrieved otherwise than by an Act of the Court;
4. (xa) to fix the minimum infrastructural facilities that shall be provided in an un-aided college;
5. (xb) to fix the qualification of teachers and non-teaching staff of an un-aided college.
   • (xi) to fix the fees payable to the University and to demand and receive such fees;
   • (xii) to fix and regulate, with the previous sanction of the Government, the fees payable in colleges and recognized institutions affiliated to the University;
   • (xiii) with the previous sanction of the Government, to regulate the emoluments and pattern and to prescribe the duties and conditions of service of teachers and non-teaching staff in private colleges;
   • (xiv) to hold and manage endowments and bursaries and to institute and award, fellowships, scholarships, studentships, medals and prizes and to organize exhibitions;
   • (xv) to institute and provide funds wherever necessary for the maintenance of-
6. (a) a Students' Advisory Bureau;
7. (b) an Employment Bureau;
8. (c) a University union for students;
9. (d) University Athletic Clubs;
10. (e) the National Cadet Corps;
11. (f) the National Service Corps;
12. (g) University Extension Boards;
13. (h) Students' Cultural and Debating Societies;
    • (i) a Translation and Publication Bureau; and
14. (j) co-operative societies and other similar institutions for promoting the Welfare of students and employees of the University;
    • (xvi) to co-operate with other Universities or any authorities or associations in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine;
    • (xvii) to do all such other acts and things, whether incidental to the powers aforesaid or not, as may be requisite in order to further the objects of the University as a teaching and examining body, and to cultivate and promote arts, science and other branches of learning; (xviii) to take and hold any property, movable or immovable, which may become vested in it for the purpose of the University by purchase, grant, testamentary disposition or otherwise and to grant, demise, alienate or otherwise dispose of all or any of the properties belonging to the University and also to do all other acts incidental or appertaining to a body corporate;
    • (xix) to direct, manage and control all immovable and movable properties transferred to the University by the Government;
    • (xx) to co-ordinate, supervise, regulate and control the conduct of teaching and research work in the affiliated colleges and the institution recognized by the University;
15. (xxi) to define the powers and duties of the officers of the University other than the Vice-Chancellor;
16. (xxii) to provide for the inspection of affiliated colleges and to issue such directions as the University may deem fit; (xxiii) to establish, maintain and manage colleges, institutes of research and other institutions of higher studies;
17. (xxiv) to affiliate to itself colleges in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations and to withdraw affiliations of colleges;
18. (xxv) to institute professorships, readerships, lecturerships and any other teaching and research posts required by the University and to appoint persons to such professorships, readerships, lecturerships and other teaching and research posts;
19. (xxvi) to establish, maintain and manage hostels; (xxvii) with the previous sanction of the Government as regards the purpose and amount of loan and subject to such conditions as may be specified by the Government. as to security and rate of interest, to borrow any sum of money from the Central Government, any other Government, the University Grants Commission or any other incorporated body ; and (xxviii) generally to do such other acts as may be required to further the aims and purposes of this Act.

University open to all classes and creeds.-

1. (1) No person shall, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, descent, place of birth, residence, language, political opinion or any of them, be ineligible for or discriminated against, in respect of any employment or office under the University or membership of any of the authorities or bodies of the University or admission to any degree or course of study in the University: Provided that the University may, in consultation with the Government affiliate any college or recognize any institution, exclusively for women either for education, instruction or residence, or reserve for women or members of socially and educationally backward classes or of Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribes, places for the purpose of admission as students in any college or institution maintained or controlled by the University.
2. (2) In making appointments by direct recruitment to posts in any class or category in each department under the University, or to posts of non-teaching staff in the University, the University shall mutatis mutandis observe the provisions of clauses (a), (b), and
   • (c) of rule 14 and rules 15 to 16 and 17 of the Kerala State and Subordinate Service Rules, 1958, as amended from time to time.