Chapter IX ORGANIZATION OF UNDERGRADUATE, POST-GRADUATE TEACHING AND EXTENSION EDUCATION

1. (1) The University shall, establish within the University campus, all or any of the following schools and such other institutions and laboratories as it may deem fit :-
   • (i) the School of Engineering and Technology;
   • (ii) the School of Health Sciences;
   • (iii) the School of Management Studies;
   • (iv) the School of Applied Social Sciences;
   • (v) the School of Marine Sciences;
   • (vi) the School of Earth Sciences.
2. (2) The University may, according to need, establish additional institutions for implementing its academic programme.
3. (3) The University may, according to need, start additional training centres or close down either permanently or temporarily any of the training institution or classes under its control as it may consider appropriate. Outside the University campus the programme of the University may be conducted at such institutions or other places in any part of the University areas as the University may decide.
4. (4) The University shall provide for undergraduate as well as postgraduate instruction and shall ensure for the economy and efficiency in teaching and research.
5. (5) The post-graduate teaching and research shall, as far as possible, be conducted at the University schools only.

Each academic staff member of the University shall hold the rank of a professor, assistant professor, lecturer or any other prescribed rank, as the case may be, in accordance with the his qualifications and status in the University, irrespective of the duties of teaching, research or extension education, extension services or transference of technology, for the time being allotted to him.

The recognized institutions of the University shall gradually be brought on the common pattern of teaching and organization as may be directed by the University from time to time.

The University shall establish extension education service, and shall, subject to the provisions in this Act, the Statutes and the Ordinances, make useful information based upon the findings of research available to the people in the rural areas to help them to solve their problems. It shall conduct demonstration and training programme for the benefit of students, extension workers, and other rural people, by establishing regional extension centres and extension service units.

1. (1) The Vice-Chancellor shall be responsible for taking, such steps in consultation with appropriate officers of the University as may be necessary for the full co-ordination of teaching, research and extension education activities of the University.
2. (2) The Vice-Chancellor shall be responsible, working through the appropriate officers and staff of the University, for ensuring that conditions are established whereby there is maximum feasible progress on the development of new information and technology in the natural, physical and relevant aspects of social sciences related to technology and their transfer to the teaching curriculum and to the educational programmes leading to their understanding and adoption, where applicable in practice in the University area.
3. (3) The Vice-Chancellor shall be responsible, working through the appropriate officers and staff of the University, to ensure that there is an appropriate inter-relation to the different curriculum and courses offered by the different Boards of Studies of the University, so as to avoid unnecessary duplication of functions among the Boards.
4. (4) The University shall develop its programme of instruction, research, extension education, extension services and transfer of technology keeping in view the needs of the State in general, and backward areas in particular, and shall provide appropriate consultative advice to the State Government.