Powers and functions of University

The powers and functions of the University shall be –

1. (i) to administer and manage the University and such centres for research, education and instructions as are necessary for the furtherance of the objects of the University;
2. (ii) to provide for instructions in such branches of knowledge or learning as the University may think fit in furtherance of its objectives and to make provision for research and for advancement and dissemination of knowledge;
3. (iii) to organise and undertake extra-mural teaching and extension services;
4. (iv) to hold examinations and to grant diplomas or certificates, and to confer degree and other academic distinctions on persons subject to such conditions as the University may determine and to withdraw any such diplomas, certificates, degrees or other academic distinctions other than honorary degrees for good and sufficient reasons;
5. (v) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner laid down in the regulations;
6. (vi) to fix, demand and receive fees and other charges;
7. (vii) to institute and maintain halls and hostels and to recognise places of residence for the students of the University and to withdraw such recognition accorded to any such place or residence;
8. (viii) to establish such special centres, specialised study centres or other units for research and instructions as are, in the opinion of the University, necessary for the furtherance of its objects;
9. (ix) to create academic, technical, administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointments thereto;
10. (x) to regulate and enforce discipline among the employees of the University and to take such disciplinary measures as may be deemed necessary in the manner laid in the regulations;
11. (xi) to institute professorships, associate professorships assistant professorships, readerships, lecturerships and any other teaching, academic or research posts required by the University;
12. (xii) to appoint persons as professors, associate professors, assistant professors, readers, lecturers and otherwise as teachers and researchers of the University;
13. (xiii) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, prizes and medals ;
14. (xiv) to admit to its privileges, colleges and institutions not maintained by the University, to withdraw all or any of these privileges and to take over management in the manner and under conditions prescribed by the Regulations;
15. (xv) to sponsor and undertake research in all aspects of journalism and mass communications;
16. (xvi) to co-operate with any other organisation in the matter of education, training and research in journalism and mass communication for such purposes as may be agreed upon on such terms and conditions as the University may from time to time determine;
17. (xvii) to co-operate with institutions of higher learning in any part of the world having objects wholly or partially similar to those of the University by exchange of teachers and scholars and generally in such manner as may be conducive to the common object; (xviii)to regulate the expenditure and to manage the accounts of the University ;
18. (xix) to establish and maintain within the University premises or elsewhere, such class rooms, study halls, office and guest houses as the University may consider necessary and adequately furnish the same and to establish and maintain such libraries and reading rooms as may appear necessary for the University;
19. (xx) to receive grants, subventions, subscriptions, donations and gifts for the purpose of the University and consistent with the objects for which the University is established;

1. (xxi) to purchase, take on lease or accept as gifts or otherwise any land or building or works, which may be necessary or convenient for the purpose of the University and on such terms and conditions as it may think fit and proper and to construct or alter and maintain any such building or works ;
2. (xxii) to sell, exchange, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any portion of the properties of the University, movable or immovable on such terms as it may think fit and proper without prejudice to the interest and activities of the University ; (xxiii)to draw and accept, to make and endorse, to discount and negotiate Government of India and other promissory notes, bills of exchange, cheques or other negotiable instruments, with the prior permission of the State Government ;
3. (xxiv) to execute conveyances, transfers, reconveyances, mortgages, leases, licences and agreements in respect of property, movable or immovable including Government securities belonging to the University or to be acquired for the purpose of University ;
4. (xxv) to appoint in order to execute an instrument or transact any business of the University, any person as it may deem fit ;
5. (xxvi) to give up and cease from carrying on any classes or departments of the University ; (xxvii)to enter into any agreement with Central Government, State Government, the University Grants Commission or other authorities for receiving grants ; (xxviii)to accept grants of money, securities or property of any kind on such terms as may deem expedient ;
6. (xxix) to raise and borrow money on bonds, mortgages, promissory notes or other obligations or securities founded or based upon all or any of the properties and assets of the University or without any securities and upon such terms and conditions as it may think fit and to pay out of the funds of the University, all expenses incidental to the raising of money, and to repay and redeem any money borrowed ;
7. (xxx) to invest the funds of the University or money entrusted to the University in or upon such securities and in such manner as it may deem fit and, from time to time, transpose any investment ;
8. (xxxi) to make such regulations as may, from time to time, be considered necessary for regulating the affairs and the management of the University and to alter, modify and to rescind them ; (xxxii)to constitute for the benefit of the academic, technical, administrative and other staff, in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the regulations, pensions, insurance, provident fund and gratuity as it may deem fit and to make such grants as it may think fit for the benefit of the employees of the University and to aid in establishment and support of the associations, institutions, funds, trusts and conveyance calculated to benefit the staff and the students of the University ; (xxxiii)to delegate all or any of its powers to the Vice-Chancellor, the Rector of the University or any committee or sub-committee or any one or more members of its body or its officers : and (xxxiv)to do all such other acts and things as the University may consider necessary conducive or incidental to the attainment or enlargement of the aforesaid objects or any one of them.