Chapter II Chapter II

Establishment, objectives powers and functions of University

Establishment of University

1. (1) As soon as after the commencement of this Act, the State Government shall call upon the trust to set up an endowment Fund of Rs. One crore for the purposes of the University.
2. (2) Immediately after the setting up of the Endowment Fund as aforesaid, the State Government shall accord sanction for establishment of the university by name the Global Open University (Nagaland) and thereafter the Trust shall accordingly establish the University.
3. (3) The State Government shall notify the fact of establishment of the University in the Official gazette as soon as may be after the establishment of the university by the Trust. Provided that no such notification by the State Government shall be issued unless a High Powered Committee appointed in that behalf certifies to the State Government that all necessary infrastructure including buildings, equipments, teaching staff etc, are in place and that the provisions of section 60, wherever applicable, have been fully complied with by the University.
4. (4) The University shall be a body corporate by the name aforesaid, having perpetual succession and common seal and shall, by that name, sue and be sued. (5)
   • (i) The main campus of the University shall be at Wokha in the State of Nagaland.
   • (ii) The University shall have power to establish other campuses, study centres etc, within the State of Nagaland for reasons of operational expediency and for broad basing the activities of the University.
5. (6) The University may establish off-campus centres off-shore campuses and study centres subject to the provisions of the University grants Commission Act, 1956 and the regulations made thereunder and the provision of any law for the time being in force.
6. (7) The University may further institute its own colleges and also affiliate any other college or institution in accordance with the procedure enshrined in regulations.

1. (1) The University shall design and run courses and programmes leading to the award of certificates, diplomas, degrees of bachelor, master, doctoral and post-doctoral levels and other academic distinctions, under the faculties and in the subjects enumerated in the schedule to this Act.
2. (2) The University, by regulation, has the power to abolish or create any faculty or any course or programme of study enumerated in the schedule without causing any detriment to the interests of teachers or students concerned, and any such regulation shall not be deemed as an amendment of this Act. (3)
   • (i) The University may impart instructions in regard to a course or programme of study through one or more modes, which may include distance, continuing and regular modes of teaching and learning.
   • (ii) Without prejudice to the above, the main objective of the University shall be to provide high quality professional, technical and technological in-campus, class room, formal and regular courses and programmes of study to the students hailing from Nagaland in such subjects, areas and fields of study which are generally not offered by other institutions in Nagaland.
   • (iv) The University shall specially strive to have professional, academic and other possible link-ups and ties with various Centres of Excellence in and outside the country for promoting the standards of education provided, for improving the methodologies of teaching and for upgrading the potentials of teaching and non-teaching staff of the University.

Powers and functions of University 5.

1. (1) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions, the University shall have the following powers and functions:
   • (i) To provide for instruction, teaching and training in all branches of study and particularly for research, advancement and dissemination of knowledge through establishment of institutes, departments, schools, faculties and other centres of excellence;
   • (ii) To hold examinations and to grant and confer certificates, diplomas, degrees and other academic distinctions on those pass the examinations, to confer honorary distinctions on men and women of Eminence and to withdraw the certificates, diplomas etc., from those who had been conferred for good and sufficient reasons;
   • (iii) To transform the University into a Centre of Excellence particularly in the fields of healthcare, medical and para-medical education, hospital administration, physical and biological sciences, technology including information and communication technologies, Engineering, Social Work, Environmental Science, Law, Fine Arts etc.;
   • (iv) To maintain and manage the physical and financial assets of the University in the most effective manner with a view to promoting the purposes of the University;
   • (v) To appoint professors, associate professors, assistant professors, readers, lecturers and others connected with teaching with a view to imparting instructions of very high standards;
   • (vi) To establish all physical amenities conducive to the most effective learning by the students enrolled with the University;
   • (vii) To institute fellowships, scholarships, prizes, medals etc., with a view to promoting research and motivating study;
   • (viii) To collaborate, cooperate and act jointly with other organizations, institutions, Universities etc., within and outside India, particularly in the fields of medical education, Engineering, Technology, Environmental Science, Law and Fine Arts etc., for sustaining research and improving the quality of instructions to students;
   • (ix) To disseminate knowledge through seminar, conferences, executive education programs community development programs, publications and training programs;
   • (x) To provide consultancy to industry, Government and public organizations;
   • (xi) To establish and maintain within the premises of the University or elsewhere, such class rooms, study halls as University may consider necessary and adequately furnish the same;
   • (xii) To receive grants, subscriptions, donations and gifts for the purpose of the University and consistent with the objects for which the University is established;
   • (xiii) To purchase, take 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 on such terms and conditions as the University may deem fit, and to construct or alter and maintain any such buildings or works;
   • (xiv) To execute conveyances, transfer, re-conveyances, mortgages, leases, licenses and agreements in respect of property, movable or immovable, including securities belonging to the University or to acquire the same for the purpose of the University;
   • (xv) To enter into agreements with Organizations which may include the Central Government, the State Government, the University Grants Commission or other authorities for receiving grants;
   • (xvi) To accept grants money, securities or property of any kind on such terms and conditions as may be deemed expedient;
   • (xvii) To raise and borrow money on mortgage, promissory notes or on other obligations or securities based upon all or any of the properties and assets of the University with or without any securities and upon such terms and conditions as it may deem fit and to pay out of the funds of the University, all expenditures incidental to the raising of the money and to repay and redeem any money borrowed; (xviii) To invest the funds of the University or money entrusted to the University in other such securities and in such manner as it may deem fit and from time to time transpose any investment; and
   • (xix) To do all other acts as the University may consider necessary that are conducive or incidental to the attainment and promotion of the aforesaid objectives.
2. (2) The Pro-Chancellor shall be responsible for the distribution of the aforesaid powers and functions of the University amongst the officers, councils, committees, boards and other authorities of the university in accordance with the provisions of this Act for carrying out the objectives of the University.