Powers of the University

5. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the University shall exercise the following powers and perform the following functions, namely:-

1. (1) to establish, administer and manage the University and its constituent colleges and academic centres for research, education, training, extension and outreach including continuing education, distance learning at its campus within the state;
2. (2) to sponsor and undertake research in all aspects of Liberal Arts, Science, Engineering Technology, Management Studies, Medical Sciences, Para-Medical Courses, Dental Sciences, Health Sciences, Travel and Tourism Studies, Legal studies, Design and Fashion Technology, Visual Communication, Yoga and Health Education, or in any other field of study as the University may deem fit;
3. (3) to provide for instructions in such branches of learning as the University may, from time to time, determine and to make provisions for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge;
4. (4) to create academic, administrative, technical and other posts under the University and to make appointments thereto based on criteria as may be decided by the University officers or authorities or regulatory bodies;
5. (5) to secure merit-based extra-mural research funding from various public and private agencies;
6. (6) to create a web portal, highlighting all information not restricted to those related to students, admission, fee, administrative structure, policies including recruitment rules, faculty and non-faculty posts, annual reports of the University;
7. (7) to confer honorary degrees, titles and other distinctions under conditions prescribed;
8. (8) to determine standards of admission to the University, which may include examination, evaluation or any other method of testing;
9. (9) to make provisions and adopt all measures (including adoption and updating of the curriculum in respect of study, teaching and research) relating to the courses through traditional as well as new innovative modes including online education mode;
10. (10) to lead, organise and conduct research and innovation in allied fields of knowledge in such manner as the University may deem fit, including in collaboration or association with any other entity of repute, educational institution, research organisation, body corporate or financial organisations at the national or global level;
11. (11) to institute and award fellowships, travelling fellowships, scholarships, studentships, bursaries, prizes, and medals in accordance with the Statutes;
12. (12) to provide for under-graduate, post-graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral teaching and research in the relevant disciplines;
13. (13) to establish, maintain and manage hostels and to recognize places of residence for the students of the University and to withdraw such recognition to any such place of residence;
14. (14) to determine and fix fees, demand and receive such fees as may be prescribed by the University from students and any other person, institution or body corporate for training, coaching, instructions, hostel, consultancy, advisory and other services, provided by or through the University;
15. (15) to hold examinations and grant degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions or titles and to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner prescribed by the Statutes;
16. (16) to affiliate or establish such Special Centres, Schools, Institutes, Colleges, Specialised Study Centres, Centres of Excellence, Off-campus Centres which may serve as a lead agent for all other institutions to emulate or other units for research and instructions and for promotion of distance education centres as are, in the opinion of the University, necessary for the furtherance of its objects within the State subject to prior approval of the prevailing Regulatory Body;
17. (17) to deal with any property belonging to, or vested in, the University in such manner as the University may deem fit for advancement of the objectives of the University provided that no land or other immovable property shall be disposed of by the University without the prior approval of the Board of Governors;
18. (18) to establish and maintain such infrastructure as may be necessary, incidental or conducive to the attainment of the objectives of the University;
19. (19) to co-operate with universities or 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 conducive to the common objects;
20. (20) to appoint persons working in any other institutes, universities or industries involved in research of significance as an adjunct, guest or visiting faculty of the Institute on such terms and for such duration as the University may decide;
21. (21) to make provision for dissemination of knowledge emerging from research and for that purpose to enter into such arrangements, including consultancy and advisory services, with other corporate, academic or government institutions, industry, civil society or other organisations, as the University may deem fit;
22. (22) to organise and conduct refresher courses, workshops, seminars and other programmes for teachers, employees and other academic staff;
23. (23) to co-operate with any other industry, organization or institution in the matters of education, training and research for such purposes as may be agreed upon on such terms and conditions as the University may, from time to time, determine;
24. (24) to draw and accept, to make and endorse, to discount and negotiate promissory notes, bills of exchange, cheque or other negotiable instruments;
25. (25) to receive and accept grants, subventions, subscriptions, donations, endowments, securities or properties and gifts for the purposes of the University on such terms it may deem expedient and consistent with the objects for which the University is established;
26. (26) to, with prior approval of Board of Governors and in consultation with Sponsoring Body, borrow for purposes of the University from Banks, Financial Institutions, private sources, secured or otherwise, to raise and borrow money on bonds, mortgages, promissory notes or other obligations or securities 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 money, and to repay and redeem any money borrowed;
27. (27) to, with prior approval of Board of Governors, invest the funds of the University, money 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;
28. (28) to acquire, hold and manage, and to dispose of, with the prior approval of the Board of Governors, any property, movable or immovable, including trust and endowment properties for the purposes of the University;
29. (29) to establish and maintain hostels and residences for the students and staff respectively of the University and to make arrangements for promoting the health and general welfare of the students and staff;
30. (30) to create academic, technical, administrative, senates, ministerial and other posts and to make appointments thereto and to lay down conditions of service of all categories of employees, including their code of conduct;
31. (31) to regulate, enforce, control and maintain discipline among the students and among all categories of employees including their code of conduct and to take such disciplinary measures as may be deemed necessary;
32. (32) to do all such other acts and things as the University may consider necessary, conducive or incidental to the attainment or enlargement of its objects, powers and functions or any one of them.