Chapter II THE UNIVERSITY

1. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the territorial jurisdiction of the University shall extend to the whole of the State of Kerala.
2. (3) The headquarters of the University shall be at Thrissur.
3. (4) In all suits and other legal proceedings by or against the University the pleadings shall be signed and verified by the Registrar or any other person authorised by him in this behalf and all processes in such suits and proceedings shall be issued to and served on the Registrar.
4. (5) The University may establish study centres at such other places within the State of Kerala with the approval of the Governing Council and at places outside the State of Kerala with the prior approval of the Government.
5. (6) The University shall be both a teaching and an affiliating University.

The University shall be composed of the following, namely:—

1. (A) Institutions of the University which shall include the following:—
   • (i) School of studies and research in areas as may be decided by the University from time to time;
   • (ii) Constituent Colleges, mainly focusing on undergraduate and post-graduate teaching directly managed by the University;
2. (B) Affiliated colleges, both in the Government and private aided or unaided sectors;
3. (C) Recognised Institutions.

The objects of the University shall be the following,

namely:—

1. (i) to advance and disseminate learning and knowledge in health sciences and allied fields by fostering and promoting medical research;
2. (ii) to design new courses and curricula based on the advances in the field of health science;
3. (iii) to regulate the academic standards of the affiliated colleges or institutions;
4. (iv) to promote preventive curative and rehabilitative aspects of health;
5. (v) to organise programmes to tackle health problems of the society;
6. (vi) to give leadership to the medical human resource development in the State;
7. (vii) to give leadership to the health planning and health policy formulation for the State;
8. (viii) to give thrust to epidemiological studies, monitoring and surveillance system of the diseases prevalent in the State; (ix)to act as the nodal agency for linkages with other national and international institutions;
9. (x) to develop a platform for the dialogue between different systems of health care; (xi)to explore the possibilities of joint research programmes and integration between different systems of medicine;
10. (xii) to promote equitable distribution of facilities for education in health and allied sciences;
11. (xiii) to promote acquisition of knowledge in a rapidly developing and changing society and to continually offer opportunities for upgrading knowledge and imparting training and development of skills in the context of innovations, research and discovery in all fields of human endeavour by establishing educational network related to health sciences with use of modern communication media and technologies appropriate for a learning society;
12. (xiv) to give more thrust for the development of Indian Systems of Medicine and all its branches and Homoeopathy by encouraging research and other academic activities in the related areas.

The powers and functions of the University

shall be the following, namely:—

1. (i) to provide instruction and training in such branches of learning related to health and allied sciences as the University may deem fit; (ii)to make provisions for research and for advancement and dissemination of knowledge in health and allied sciences;
2. (iii) to institute and award degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions; (iv)to hold examinations and to confer degrees and other academic distinctions for persons who shall have pursued approved courses of study in a University, college or an affiliated or recognised college or institution 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 and which has been duly evaluated;
3. (v) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions on distinguished persons in accordance with the conditions as may be prescribed; (vi)to prescribe conditions under which the award of any degree, title, diploma and other academic distinctions may be withheld;
4. (vii) to withdraw or cancel degree, title, diploma, certificates or other distinctions under conditions that may be prescribed by the Statutes after giving the persons affected a reasonable opportunity to present their case;
5. (viii) to establish, maintain and administer colleges, schools, centres, hospitals, laboratories and libraries or other institutions necessary to carry out the objectives of the University; (ix)to prescribe conditions for recognition of institutions for conducting research or other programmes of the University and to grant recognition to institutions satisfying the conditions and to withdraw such recognition;
6. (x) to establish, maintain and administer hostels and to recognise hostels not managed by the University and to suspend or withdraw such recognition; (xi)to provide for establishment of campus for serving a group of affiliated colleges and also to provide for and maintain common resource centres in such campuses in the form of libraries, laboratories, computer centres and the like centres of learning;
7. (xii) to establish centres for conducting research programme and to create research posts and appoint suitable persons to these posts;
8. (xiii) to create posts of directors, principals, teachers and other non-vacation academic posts required by the University and to prescribe by the Statutes the scales of pay for such posts with the prior approval of the State Government, and to prescribe their qualifications, methods of appointment and to make appointments thereto;
9. (xiv) to appoint or recognise teachers working in any other University or organisation as teachers of the University for specified period;
10. (xv) to create non-teaching, skilled, administrative, ministerial and other posts and prescribe through Statutes pay scales for such posts, with prior approval of the State Government and to fix the method of appointment and to make appointments thereto: Provided that the recruitment to the non-teaching staff other than the officers of the University mentioned in clause 9 shall be through Kerala Public Service Commission. (xvi)to facilitate mobility of teachers within the University and to other Universities if necessary;
11. (xvii) to make provision wherever feasible in the University departments, affiliated colleges, recognised institutions, centres and schools, for survey and collection of statistics, data and other particulars relevant to various developmental activities including evaluation of the developmental schemes under the State and Central Plans with the participation of the students as a part of their curricular activities; (xviii) to control and regulate admission of students for various courses of study in University departments, affiliated colleges, institutions, schools, centres and recognised institutions; (xix)to designate a department of the University, an affiliated college, institution, school or centre as an autonomous University department or institution or school, as the case may be, in accordance with the guidelines, if any, laid down by the University Grants Commission or Government of Kerala or other Central Council;
12. (xx) to monitor and evaluate the academic performance of affiliated colleges and recognised institutions for granting continuation of affiliation and periodical accreditation; (xxi)to inspect, where necessary, affiliated colleges and recognised institutions through suitable machinery established for the purpose, and take measures to ensure that proper standards of instruction, teaching and training are maintained by them and adequate library, laboratory, hospital, faculty and other academic facilities are provided for;

1. (xxii) to institute awards, fellowships, travelling fellowships, scholarships, studentship, medals and prizes for teachers and students of the University and affiliated colleges; (xxiii) to make arrangements for promoting welfare of the employees of the University;
2. (xxiv) to provide for the training and quality improvement of teachers and non-teaching employees; (xxv)to provide for periodical assessment of the performance of teachers and non-teaching employees of the colleges, institutions, schools, centres and University departments in accordance with the Statutes;
3. (xxvi) to regulate attendance of the teachers in the premises of the University or college or institutions during teaching hours and beyond teaching hours, as may be prescribed and to prohibit teachers from taking or conducting private tuition or private coaching classes or doing private clinical practice; (xxvii) to prescribe by Statutes conduct and discipline rules for teaching and non-teaching staff and to ensure the enforcement thereof; (xxviii) to prescribe a code of conduct for managements of affiliated or recognised colleges or institutions;
4. (xxix) to establish, maintain and manage, whenever necessary,—
5. (a) a Printing and Publication Department;
6. (b) University Extension Boards;
7. (c) Information Bureaus;
8. (d) employment guidance bureaus and such other activities as may be necessary and possible to fulfill the objectives of the University; (xxx)to co-operate or collaborate with any other University, institution, authority or organization for research and advisory services and to enter into appropriate arrangement with other Universities, institutions, authorities, or organizations to conduct courses and for such purposes as the situation may demand;
9. (xxxi) to rescind affiliation granted to the colleges in violation of Statutes of the University; (xxxii) to explore the possibilities of augmenting the resources of the University by exploring or innovating activities such as research and development, consultancy, training programmes and providing services to clients from industry, trade or any other nongovernment organisations; (xxxiii) to recommend to the Government to take over, in the public interest, the management of an affiliated college, institution or autonomous college in case where irregularities or commissions or omissions of criminal nature by the management of such college or institution are prima-facie evident to the committee of enquiry appointed by the University; (xxxiv)to receive funds for collaboration programmes from foreign agencies subject to rules and regulations of the Central Government and State Government in that behalf;
10. (xxxv) to lay down for teachers of affiliated colleges and University teachers, service conditions including code of conduct, workload, norms of performance appraisal, and such other instructions or directions as, in the opinion of the University, may be necessary in academic matters; (xxxvi) to exercise control over the students of the University, 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; (xxxvii) 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 and to institute scholarships, medals etc. from such funds subject to the condition that any donation from a foreign country, foreign foundation or any person in such country or foundation shall be accepted by the University only in accordance with the rules and guidance of the Central Government and State Government; (xxxviii) to borrow money with or without security for such purpose, 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; (xxxix) to fix fees and to demand and collect such fees in the manner as may be prescribed;
11. (xl) to undertake publication of works of merit and research pertaining to health and allied sciences;
12. (xli) to institute and provide funds wherever necessary for the maintenance of,—
13. (a) a Students’ Advisory Bureau;
14. (b) an Employment Bureau;
15. (c) a University Students Union;
16. (d) University Athletic Clubs;
17. (e) the National Cadet Corps;
18. (f) the National Service Scheme;
19. (g) University Extension Boards;
20. (h) Students' Cultural and Debating Societies;
    • (i) a Publication Bureau; and
21. (j) Co-operative societies and other similar institutions for promoting the welfare of students and employees of the University;
22. (xlii) to do all such other acts and things or make such other provisions as may be deemed necessary or desirable to further the objects of the University.