Powers of the University

The University shall have the following powers, namely;- (i) to establish, maintain, affiliate and recognize such Regional Centres, Training Centres, Campuses, Information Centres, Online Centres, Off-campus Centres and off-shore campuses. Skill knowledge provides national coordinator, learning resource provider, application collection centres, constituent college, affiliated colleges, Regional Centres, Communities College as may be determined by the Board of Management of the University; (ii) to confer Certificate, Pre-University Certificate, Degrees, Diplomas, Masters, Doctoral programs or other academic distinctions; (iii) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships and prizes; (iv) to institute and confer honorary degrees as may be prescribed; (v) to launch any academic and research programs and courses in discipline of education which are deemed suitable for meeting the objective; (vi) to run and provide Instruction, Teaching, Training and Research in various branches and specialized field of Vocational Education, Skill Development, Engineering, Physical Science, Life Sciences, Technology, Medical Science and Paramedical Management, Technical, Finance and Accounting, Commerce, Humanities, Languages and Communication, Applied and Performing Arts, Education, Law, Social Science, Agriculture, Veterinary and related areas and subjects and to make provisions for research, advancement and dissemination of knowledge therein; (vii) to determine, demand and receive fees, bills, invoices and collect charges to fulfill the objectives of the University; (viii) to make provision for extracurricular activities for students and employees; (ix) to appoint the faculties, teachers, officers and employees of the University or a constituent college, affiliated colleges, Regional centres, Communities College, Study centres and Campuses, School and to establish, maintain and recognize such Regional centres, Study centres and Campuses, Off-campuses centres and off-shore campuses, School located in India and abroad; (x) to receive grant from the State Government and other funding organization, donations and gift of any kind and to acquire, hold, manage, maintain, lease, mortgage and dispose off any movable or immovable property, including trust and endowment properties for the purpose of the University or a constituent college, or a Regional Centre or an Off-campus or a Study or Training Centre with prior approval of the sponsoring body; (xi) to receive grants, subvention, subscription, donations and gifts for achieving the objectives of the University; (xii) to purchase, or 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; (xiii) to execute conveyances, transfer, conveyance, mortgages, leases, licenses and agreements in respect of property, movable or immovable, including Government securities belonging to the University or to acquire same for the purpose of the University;. (xiv) to enter into agreements with the Central Government, State Government, the University Grants Commission or other authority for receiving grants; (xv) to accept grant of money, securities or property of any kind of such terms and conditions as may be deemed expedient, to draw and accept, to make and endorse, to discount and negotiate, Government and other promissory notes, bills of exchange, cheques or other negotiable instrument; (xvi) to raise and borrow money on mortgage, promissory note or on other obligations or securities based upon any of the properties and assets of the University with or without any securities and upon such term and conditions as it may think fit and to pay out of the fund of the University, all expenditures incidental to the raising of money and to repay and redeem any such money borrowed and to invest the fund of the University or money entrusted to the University in such other securities and in such manner as it may deem fit from time to time and transpose any such investment; (xvii) to confer certificates, pre-University certificates, pre-Engineering certificates, Degrees, Diplomas, Masters and Doctoral programs or other academic distinction, granted by the University and automatically recognized for the purpose of employment in post and service under the state and central government, which shall be recognized for the purpose of further education in other Universities and higher learning institutes;- (xviii) to create and manage the halls and places of residence for students, officers, faculties, teachers, employees of the University or a constituent college or other partners of the University at the main campus and other campuses in India and abroad; to supervise and control the residential facilities, and to regulate discipline among the student and all categories of employees and to lay down conditions of service of such employees including their code of conduct.; (xix) to create Industry-Academia partnership to conceptualize, innovate design, develop, deliver, work integrated learning material, training programs and research program ; subject which the University may deem fit for the purpose, and may be agreed upon, by such terms and condition as the university may, from time to time; (xx) to create academic, administrative and support staff and other necessary post; sponsoring body can appoint part-time, temporary, contractual staff from time to time for both administrative, teaching and research work; (xxi) to strategies alliance or co-operation with other University or institution of higher learning in any part of the world for specified educational and research programs, dual degree programs, joint degree programs and exchange programs for students, faculty members etc. and to cooperate and collaborate with other University and institutions in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine from time to time; (xxii) to offer program on distance learning, external, online, dual mode education, and continuing education in the manner in which such programs may be offered by the University; to provide online education in such subjects and in such manners as may be specified by the Academic Council of the University, provided that the university may for this purpose establish resource centres and collaborate with service providers in various part of the country and abroad; (xxiii) to recognize and conduct refresher course, orientation courses, workshops, seminars and other programs for industry executive, teachers, developers of courseware, evaluation, other academic staff, for working adults and others through executive education centres; (xxiv) to determine standard of admission to the university, constituent colleges, Regional centres, off-campus centres, off-shore campuses, Community Colleges, Study Centres, Schools etc. with the approval of the Academic Council; (xxv) to make special provision for students belonging to the State of Sikkim for admission in any course of the University or in a constituent College, affiliated college, School, Regional Centres, Off-campus Centres, Off-shore campus or Study Centres; (xxvi) to prescribe courses for Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor of Philosophy / Doctor of Science and related Research Degrees and Such other related degrees Diplomas, Certificates, etc.; (xxvii) to provide for the preparation of instructional materials, including films, cassettes, tapes, video cassettes, Compacts Discs/Video Compact Disc/Digital Versatile Discs (CDs/VCDs/DVDs) and other software relating to the University and its various courses; (xxviii) to recognize examination, course or period of study (whether in full in part) of other Universities, Institutions or other places of higher learning as equivalent to examinations, course of periods of study in the University and to withdraw such recognition at any time; (xxix) to create Industry-Academia partnership by inviting industry in the University campus and other University Centres for mutual benefits and to recognize any organization situated in and outside the country, which conducts research or specified studies for such purpose and in such a manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed in the statutes; (xxx) to raise, collect, subscribe and borrow with prior approval from the sponsoring body whether on the security of the property of the University or its money for the purpose of the University; (xxxi) to enter into, carry out, vary or cancel contracts; (xxxii) to make, amend or cancel the regulations, ordinance, schedules and statues to fulfill the objectives of the University; (xxxiii) to do all such other acts or things whether incidental to the powers aforesaid or not, as may be necessary to further the objective of the University; (xxxiv) to run programs and courses in any of the Indian or Foreign languages where deemed fit in the interest of the students; (xxxv) to run various educational courses and programs for external students of India and abroad, to hold examination in and outside the country and to grant diplomas or certificate and confer degrees or other academic distinctions, subject to University Grants Commission (UGC) rules and regulations, on person who: (a) have pursued a course of study in the University or in the approved institution or in associated industry as external students or under online education system; or (b) have carried on research in the University or in the approved institutions or as external students or under work integrated learning system; (xxxvi) the University shall have power to get into collaborations and agreements of articulation, and progression with reputed University and institution in India and abroad and also admit institutes of Higher Learning to the privilege of the University as approved Institution; (xxxvii) to honor educational stalwarts and persons of academic eminence with the decoration of professor emeritus; (xxxviii) to decide the academic programs and subjects, also to conduct examination to provide results, certificate and other instruments for various programs and courses and to conduct examination on demand through offline as well as online mode in India and abroad for regular campus, external and distance education programs and to establish and maintain within the University or elsewhere, such class rooms, laboratories and libraries, as the University may consider necessary; (xxxix) to decide the fees of the course, programs and other activities; (xl) to award associate's degrees, diplomas, and other activities through online or offline examination conducted by various modes of learning including external education and online education or dual mode; (xli) to decide the education activity of the pre-university foundation course which is equivalent to Secondary School Certificate and Pre-University Certificate (Arts) which is equivalent to Higher Secondary School Certificate (Arts), (Commerce) which is equivalent to Higher Secondary School Certificate (Commerce), (Science) which is equivalent to Higher Secondary School Certificate (Science) of Sikkim State education boards and other education boards of India and abroad pre-university certificate (part 1) which is equivalent to part one of higher secondary school certificate of Sikkim State Education Boards and other education boards of India and abroad. curriculum/syllabi of these courses shall be as per the Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) pattern; (xlii) to launch any new course which is in demand or suitable as per the requirements of students and determine its duration and fees, with the objective of promoting the welfare of the students and the society and to design or change course as per the new education policies implemented from time to time; (xliii) to take loans for the objectives listed in section 4 of this Act; (xliv) to clearly set apart the academic activities of the University from the activities of the sponsoring body until the sponsoring body