Board of Studies – Number, composition and term of office

(1) There shall be a Board of Studies for each subject or group of subjects. The number of the Boards of Studies in each Faculty as also the number of members of each Board shall be determined by the Syndicate on the recommendations of the Academic Council and the Faculty concerned.

(2) The Boards of Studies shall be constituted by the Faculty concerned for a period of three years.

(3) In the Faculties of Arts, Science, Commerce and Law, the members of a Board shall not execeed :-

(a) seven in the case of a Board dealing upto post-graduate studies ; and

(b) five in other cases.

(4) The Faculties of Engineering and Technology, Medicine and Pharmaceutics and Education shall have one Board each. The number of members in the Board of Studies relating to the Faculty of Education shall not exceed five and in each or the other two Boards, eleven.

(5) Omitted.

(6) There shall be atleast one and not more than two external members on each Board consisting of five or less than five members and atleast two and not more than three external members on each Board consisting of more than five members.

(7) In the case of a board dealing upto post-graduate studies, there shall be atleast three internal members who shall be heads of post-graduate departments, or post-graduate teachers to the extent the number of such heads is less than three in the University or in affiliated colleges or approved Institutions.

(8) Each Board shall have a convener appointed by itself in the following order of preference from among its internal members, namely :

(i) University Professors ;

(ii) Principals of post-graduate colleges being heads of departments or Principals of degree colleges who have held the office of the Principal of a post-graduate college and head of a department for at least five years ;

(iii) University Readers in subjects in which there is no University Professor ;

(iv) Principals of degree colleges being heads of departments;

(v) Heads of post-graduate departments in colleges ; and

(vi) Heads of degree departments in colleges.

(vii) Omitted.

Explanation:- "Internal member" means a member who is a teacher in the University or in an affiliated colleges or an approved institution ; and "external member" means one who is not an internal member.