Chapter 2 THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS OBJECTS

1. (1) The sponsor shall have the right to establish the University in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
2. (2) An application containing the proposal to establish a University shall be made to the State Government by the Sponsor The proposal may contain the following particulars, namely:
   • (a) The objects of the University along with the details of the Sponsor;
   • (b) The extent and status of the University and the availability of land;
   • (c) The nature and type of programs of study and research to be undertaken in the University during a period of the next five years;
   • (d) The nature of faculties, courses of study and research proposed to be started;
   • (e) The campus development such as buildings, equipment and structural amenities; (f) The phased outlays of capital expenditure for a period of the next five years;
   • (g) The item-wise recurring expenditure, sources of finance and estimated expenditure for each student;
   • (h) The scheme for mobilizing resources and the cost of capital thereto and the manner of repayments to each source;
     • (i) The scheme of generation of funds internally through the recovery of fee from students, revenues anticipated from consultancy and other activities relating to the objects of the University and other anticipated incomes;
   • (j) The details of expenditure on unit cost, the extent of concessions or rebates in fee, freeship and scholarship for students belonging to economically weaker sections and the fee structure indicating varying rate of fee, if any, that would be levied on non-resident Indians and students of other nationalities;
   • (k) The history and credentials of the sponsor including years of experience and the expertise in the concerned discipline at the command of the sponsor as well as the financial resources;
   • (l) The system for selection of students to the courses of study at the University; and (m)Nature and types of its partnership and affiliations.
   • (n) Status of fulfilment of such other conditions as may be required by the State Government to be fulfilled before the establishment of the University.

1. (1) Where the State Government, after such inquiry as it may deem necessary, is satisfied that the Sponsor has fulfilled the conditions specified in sub-section (2), of Section 3, it may direct the Sponsor, to establish an Endowment Fund.
2. (2) After the establishment of the Endowment Fund, the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, accord sanction for establishment of the University.
3. (3) The campuses of the University shall be at any place within the State of Meghalaya with its Headquaters at Mawphlang, East Khasi Hills, meghalaya and it may have campuses or Regional Centres, Study Centres anywhere in India or abroad with approval of the Government of Meghalaya.
4. (4) The Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor, members of the Board of Governors, members of the Board of Management and the Academic Council for the time being holding office as such in the University so established, shall constitute a body corporate and can sue and be sued in the name of the University.
5. (5) On the establishment of the University under sub-section (2), the land and other movable and immovable properties acquired, created, arranged or built by the University, for the purpose of the University in the State of Meghalaya shall vest in the University.
6. (6) The land, building and other properties acquired for the University shall not be used for any purpose other than that for which the same is acquired.

The University shall be self-financing and shall neither make a demand nor shall be entitled to any grant in-aid or any other financial assistance from the State Government or any other body or corporation owned or controlled by the State Government.

1. (1) The University may have constituent colleges, Regional Centers and Study Centres.
2. (2) The University may with the prior approval of the Board of Governors, affiliate any college or other institution.

The objectives for which the University is established are as follows:

1. (a) To establish academic Departments, centres, faculties and institutions of excellence to train professionals of high competence and commitment.
2. (b) To affiliate colleges and to set up university centre for interactive, distance, online and other modes of learning in a networked system of learning centres, using modern information and communication technologies;
3. (c) To collaborate with educational and healthcare institutions, Government and voluntary organizations to offer various academic programmes;
4. (d) To provide educational and healthcare of underdeveloped regions, especially tribal areas and their people;
5. (e) To advocate the need and contribution of higher education as a valuable means to individual and societal development;
6. (f) To assist students and graduates in planning, preparing and being placed in their careers;
7. (g) To develop innovative concepts and programmes in higher education;
8. (h) To develop educational programmes that are flexible and responsible to changes in society;
   • (i) To contribute to the development of a knowledge-based society;

1. (1) The University have the following powers, namely: i) To provide for instruction, teaching and training in such branches of learning as the University may think fit and to make provisions for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge, particular in the fields of professional course of sciences, Health Sciences, BioTechnology, Information Technology, Commerce, Management and other allied areas; ii) To establish, maintain and manage institutes of Research and to assist in administering and managing the Institutes and such other centres for research education and instructions as are necessary for the furtherance of the objects of the University; iii) To make such provision so as to enable Constituent Colleges, affiliated Colleges, Autonomous Colleges, Approved Colleges and Study Centres to undertake specialization of studies and to organize common laboratories, libraries and other equipment for research work; to develop patterns of teaching in undergraduate, post graduate and super specialities so as to meet a very high standard of education, particularly in the fields of professional courses of Sciences, Health Sciences, BioTechnology, Information Technology, Commerce, Management and other allied areas; iv) To institute degrees, titles, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions; v) To hold examinations and to grant and confer degrees titles, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions on persons who shall have pursued and passed an approved course of study in Constituent Colleges, Autonomous Colleges, Affiliated Colleges, Approved Colleges and Study Centres of the University, subject to such conditions as the University may determine and to withdraw any such degrees, titles, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions on good and sufficient cause; vi) To confer honorary degrees or other distinctions under conditions prescribed; vii) To approve colleges providing course of study for admission to the examinations for tiles, degrees, diplomas and certificates of the University under conditions prescribed and to withdraw such approval; viii) To designate any college as an autonomous college in the manner and under conditions prescribed by the ordinances and statues and to cancel such designation; ix) To hold and manage endowments and other properties and funds of the University and to raise required for the purposes of the University; x) To fix fees and to demand and receive such fees and other charges as may be prescribed; xi) To institute and maintain halls and hostels and to recognize places of residence for the students of the University and to withdraw such recognition accorded to any such places of residence. xii) To establish such special centres or other units for research and instruction as are, in the opinion of University, necessary for the furtherance of its objects; xiii) To supervise and control the places of residence for the students of the University and to regulate the discipline of the students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health; xiv) To create academic, technical, administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointments thereto; xv) To regulate and enforce discipline amongst the employees of the University and to take such disciplinary measures as may be deemed necessary; xvi) To institute, professorships, associate professorships, assistant professorships, readerships, lecturer ships and any other teaching academic or research posts as may deemed necessary by the University, and to appoint duly qualified person as professors, associate professors, assistant professors, readers, lecturers, or otherwise as teachers and researchers of the University; xvii) To institute and award honorary doctorate, fellowships, scholarships; prizes and medals; xviii) To provide for printing, reproduction and publication of research and other works and to organize exhibitions; xix) To co-operate with other organizations in the matter of education, training and research, particularly in the field of professional courses of Sciences, Health Sciences, Bio-technology, Information Technology, Commerce, Management and other allied areas; for such purposes as may be agreed upon and on such terms and conditions as the University may, from time to time, determine; xx) To co-operate with institutions of higher learning in any part of the world having objects wholly or partly similar to those of the University, by exchange of teachers and scholars and generally in such manner as may be conductive for furtherance of the objects of the University; xxi) To regulate the expenditure and to manage the funds of the University; xxii) To establish and maintain within the premises of the University or elsewhere, such class rooms, study halls, etc, as the University may consider necessary and to adequately furnish the same; xxiii) To receive grants subscriptions, donations and gifts for purpose of the University and consisted with the objects for which the University is established to enter into agreements with the Central Government State Government, the University Grants Commission or other authorities for the purposes of receiving any such grants and donations and to accept grants of money, securities or property of any kind on such terms and conditions as may be deemed expedient; xxiv) To purchase, taken on lease or accept as gift 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 after and maintain any such building or works; xxv) To execute conveyance, transfer, re-conveyances, mortgages, leases, licences and agreements in respect of property, movable or immovable, including Government securities belonging to the University and/or to acquire such property for the purpose of the University; xxvi) To raise and borrow money, including upon mortgaging properties, on promissory notes or on the basis of any other obligations, whatsoever on any of the properties and assets of the University and upon such terms and conditions as the University may think fit; and to pay out of the funds of the University, all expenditures incidental to the raising of money and to repay any money borrowed and to redeem any security given with respect of the property of the University; xxvii) To invest the funds of the University or money entrusted to the university in nay securities and in such manner as the University may deem fit and from time tot time and/or to transpose any such investment; xxviii) To make such Statutes as may, from time to time, be considered necessary for regulating the affairs and management of the University and to alter, amend and to rescind them; xxix) To delegate all or any of the powers of the University to the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor or to the Senate or Syndicate or any Committee or Sub-Committee thereof; xxx) To do all such other acts and things as the University may consider necessary, conductive or instrumental to the attainment and enlargement of the aforesaid objects or anyone of them, and xxxi) Generally to do all such other acts and things as may be necessary or desirable to further the objects of the University;

The University shall be open to all persons irrespective of class, caste, creed, religion, language or gender. Provided that noting in this section shall be deemed to require the University from making special provisions for admission to students of the State.

The University will seek accreditation from respective national accreditation bodies;