Chapter VILI Chapter VILI

The annual report of the University shall be prepared under the direction of the Vice-Chancellor who shall submit it to the Board and thereafter send the report approved by the Board to the Government who shall lay the same before the Orissa Legislative Assembly.

Students shall reside in accommodations maintained by the university or approved by the Vice-Chancellor subject to the conditions prescribed.

1. (1) The Government may, at any time after the commencement of this Act, by order published in the Gazette direct that any college owned and maintained by Government including the attached hostels and other buildings forming part of such college, together with the articles of furniture, library, books, laboratories, stores, instruments, apparatus, appliances and equipments of such college shall, with effect from such date and subject to such conditions as may be specified in the order, be transferred to the University and upon the publication of the said order, such college including the attached hostels and other buildings forming part of such college together with the articles of furniture, library, books, laboratories, stores, instruments, apparatus, appliances and equipments of such college shall be deemed to have been transferred to the University as its college: Provided that until arrangements are made by the University, the Government shall be, and continue to be, responsible for keeping the buildings of the college, including the fixtures, fittings and connections, in a proper state of repair, as may from time to time be required by the University.
2. (2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to authorise the University to sell, lease, exchange or otherwise dispose of any land or building of any college transferred to the University under sub-section (1).
3. (3) Where any college has been transferred to the university by an order under sub-section (1), notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the University shall employ all members of the teaching staff and other servants of the Government who, immediately before the date of the publication of the said order, were serving in or were attached to that college, on such foreign service conditions as may be determined by the Government: Provided that such employees may, within a period of one year from the date they are called upon by the University so to do, exercise their option to revert to their services under the Government failing which they shall be deemed to have been absorbed in the services of the University with effect from the date of the expiry of the period aforesaid and shall thereafter be governed by the terms and conditions governing the said services.
4. (4) The provisions contained in sub-section
5. (2) and sub-section
6. (3) shall, mutatis mutandis, apply in respect of colleges transferred to the University prior to the coming into force of this Act and also in respect of the members of the teaching staff and other servants or the Government, who immediately before such transfer were serving in or attached to that college.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act or the Utkal University Act, 1943 or Statutes or regulations made under any of the aforesaid enactments—

1. (i) any student who immediately prior to the 24th day of August, 1962 was studying in the colleges, if any, which have been, or may hereafter be admitted to the privileges of the University, for a degree, diploma or certificate of the Utkal University shall, in accordance with the regulations of the latter University be entitled to be examined by and if on the results of such examination he qualifies, be entitled to be conferred the corresponding degree, diploma or the certificate, as the case may be, of the University established under this Act;
2. (ii) any student of the Utkal Krushi Mahavidyalaya or the College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry at Bhubaneswar who immediately before the aforesaid date was studying or was eligible for any examination of the Utkal University shall have the right to complete his course in preparation therefor and appear at the examination in accordance with the courses of studies of the Utkal University.

The Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), is hereby repealed: Provided that—

1. (a) the University established, authorities constituted and officers, other than the Vice-President, appointed under the said Act shall be deemed to have been established, constituted and appointed under this Act;
2. (b) the person appointed to be the president under the said Act, shall be deemed to be the Vice-Chancellor appointed under this Act and shall subject to the other provisions of this Act, continue to hold office so long as he would have otherwise continued as such President;
3. (c) the aforesaid authorities shall continue to hold office until they are reconstituted in accordance with the provisions of this Act; and
4. (d) statutes and regulations made, notifications and notices issued, contracts entered into and all actions taken and things done under the said Act, shall be deemed to have been made, issued, entered into, taken and done under this Act and shall continue in force until new provisions are made under the appropriate provisions of this Act.

If any doubt or difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, the Government may, as occasion may require, by order, do anything, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or the Statutes and Regulations made thereunder, which appears to them necessary for the purpose of removing the doubt or difficulty.