Powers and functions of the University

The University shall have the following powers and functions, namely:- (i) to administer and manage the University and such centers for research, education and instruction as are necessary for the furtherance of the objectives of the University; (ii) to affiliate such colleges and other institutes of the State who, in addition to routine branches of knowledge provide special education as per norms of the rehabilitation Council of India, as the University may deem fit, hold examinations and to confer degrees and grant diplomas or certificates and other academic distinctions to such conditions as the University may determine. The affiliation can be withdrawn subject to violation of the above conditions; (iii) to provide for instruction in such branches of knowledge of learning pertaining to disability, as the University may deem fit and to make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge of disability; (iv) to sponsor and undertake research in all aspects of disability and social development; (v) to prescribe qualifications and to regulate the admission of students to the University for a course of study for a degree or a diploma; (vi) to organize and undertake extra mural teaching and extension services; (vii) to hold examinations and to grant diplomas or certificates, and to confer degrees and other academic distinctions on persons subject to such conditions as the University may determine and to withdraw any such diplomas, certificates, degree or other academic distinctions for good and sufficient cause; (viii) to confer honorary degree or other distinctions in such manner as may be prescribed; (ix) to fix, demand and receive fees and other charges; (x) 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 place of residence; (xi) to supervise and control the residence, and to regulate the discipline, of the students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health; (xii) to make arrangements in respect of the residence, discipline and teaching of students; (xiii) to create academic, technical, administrative, ministerial and other posts with the prior approval of the State Government; (xiv) to regulate and enforce discipline among the employees of the University and to take such disciplinary measures as may be deemed necessary; (xv) to institute teaching, research and other posts required by the University and to make appointments thereto; (xvi) 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 and to enter into any agreement with the Central Government, the State Government, the University Grants Commission or other authorities or bodies for receiving any grants; (xvii) to institute and award fellowships, scholarship, 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 any other organization in the matter of education, training and research in disability, social development and allied subjects for such purposes as may be agreed upon 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 partially similar to those of the University, by exchange of teachers and scholars and generally in such manner as may be condusive to the common objects; (xxi) to regulate expenditure and to manage the accounts of the University; (xxii) to establish and maintain, within the premises of the University or elsewhere, such classrooms and study halls as the University may consider necessary and adequately furnish the same and to establish and maintain such libraries and reading rooms as they appear convenient or necessary for the University; (xxiii) to purchase, acquire, 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 it may think fit and proper, and to construct, or to alter and maintain any such building or works; (xxiv) to sell, exchange, lease otherwise dispose of all or any portion of the properties of the University, movable or immovable, on such terms as it may deem fit and proper without prejudice to the interest and activities of the university: Provided that where the properties have been created with the financial assistance of the State or the Central Government, prior approval of the State Government shall be necessary; (xxv) to draw and accept, to make and endorse to discount and negotiate, Government of India and other promissory notes, bills of the exchange, cheques or other negotiable instruments; (xxvi) to execute conveyances, transfer, re-conveyances, mortgages, leases, licenses and agreements in respect of property, movable or immovable including government securities belonging to the University or to be acquired for the purpose of the University with prior approval of the State Government; (xxvii) to appoint in order to execute an instruments or transact any business of the University, any person as it may deem fit; (xxviii) to enter into any agreement with Central Government, State Government, the University Grants Commission or other authorities for receiving grants; (xxix) to raise and borrow money on bonds, mortgages, promissory notes or other obligations or securities, funded 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 deem fit and to pay, out of the funds of the University all expenses incidental to the raising of the money and to repay and redeem any money borrowed; (xxx) to invest the fund of the University or fund 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; (xxxi) 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 Statutes, such as pension, insurance, provident fund and gratuity as it may deem fit and to make such grants as it may think fit for the benefit of any 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; and (xxxii) to do all such other acts and things as the University may consider necessary, conducive or incidental to the attainments or enlargements of all or any of its objectives.