ESTABLISHMENT OF CORRESPONDING UNIVERSITIES

As from the commencement of this Act, the existing University shall stand dissolved and there shall be established in its place two independent Agricultural Universities, to be known respectively as the Haryana Agricultural University and the Punjab Agricultural University.

1. (1) Each of the Agricultural Universities mentioned in section 3 shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property, and to contract, and may, by its name, sue and be sued.
2. (2) Each body corporate referred to in sub-section (1) shall consist of the Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor of that University, the members of the Board, the Academic Council and all persons, who may hereafter become or be appointed as such officers or members, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership.

1. (1) The Haryana Agricultural University shall function within the territories of the State of Haryana and the Punjab Agricultural University shall function within such other territories to which the functions of the existing University extended immediately before the commencement of this Act: Provided that on the establishment of a University in the Union territory of Himachal Pradesh, the Punjab Agricultural University shall cease to function in the transferred territories.
2. (2) Until a University is established in the Union territory of Himachal Pradesh, the Agricultural College at Palampur in the transferred territories shall, notwithstanding the dissolution of the existing University, continue to be a college of the Punjab Agricultural University and shall cease to be such college on the establishment of a University in those territories.
3. (3) On the establishment of a University in the Union territory of Himachal Pradesh, the assets and liabilities of the Punjab Agricultural University pertaining to the Agricultural College at Palampur, all research, training and extension centres, and any other property, of the Punjab Agricultural University located in the said Union territory shall stand transferred to, and shall vest in, such University.

1. (1) The headquarters of the Haryana Agricultural University shall be at Hissar, and the headquarters of the Punjab Agricultural University shall be at Ludhiana, or at such other place as the appropriate Government may direct.
2. (2) Each corresponding University shall establish an office at the place at which the seat of the appropriate Government is located.

Each corresponding University shall be deemed to be established and incorporated for the following objects, namely:--

1. (a) making provision for imparting education in different branches of study, particularly agriculture, veterinary and animal science, agricultural engineering, home sciences and other allied sciences;
2. (b) furthering the advancement of learning and prosecution of research, particularly in agriculture and other allied sciences;
3. (c) undertaking the extension of such sciences to the rural people of the territories within which the University is required by this Act to function;
4. (d) such other purposes as the appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct.

1. (1) Each corresponding University shall, subject to the provisions of this Act and the Statutes, be open to all persons: Provided that nothing herein shall require any such University to admit to any course of study a number of students larger than the prescribed number.
2. (2) The appropriate Government may direct the corresponding University to reserve in any college seats for women, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes or such educationally backward classes of citizens as may be specified by that Government in this behalf, and where such direction has been given, the corresponding University shall make the reservations accordingly: Provided that no such person shall be entitled to be admitted to a corresponding University unless he meets the standards laid down by the corresponding University.

Each corresponding University shall have the following powers, namely:--

1. (a) to provide for graduate and post-graduate instructions in agriculture, veterinary and animal sciences, agricultural engineering, home sciences and other allied sciences and in such other branches of learning as the University may deem fit;
2. (b) to make provision for instructions in applied fields, research and the dissemination of the findings of research and technical information through an extension education programme;
3. (c) to institute degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions;
4. (d) to hold examinations and to grant and confer degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions to and on persons who shall have--
   • (i) pursued a prescribed course of study; or
   • (ii) carried out research in the University, or in an institution recognised in this behalf by the University, under the prescribed conditions;
5. (e) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the prescribed manner and under the prescribed conditions;
6. (f) to provide lectures and instructions for field workers, village leaders and other persons not enrolled as regular students of the University and to grant certificates to them when deemed desirable;
7. (g) to co-operate with other Universities and authorities in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine;
8. (h) to institute teaching, research and extension education posts required by the University and to appoint persons to such posts;
   • (i) to create administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointments thereto;
9. (j) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships and prizes in accordance with the Statutes;
10. (k) to institute and maintain residential accommodation for students of the University;
11. (l) to supervise and control the residential accommodation and to regulate the discipline of the students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health and welfare;
12. (m) to institute and receive such fees and other charges as may prescribed; and
13. (n) to do all such acts and things, whether incidental to the powers aforesaid or not, as may be requisite in order to further the objects of the University.

1. (1) The Chancellor of a corresponding University may cause an inspection to be made by such person as he may direct, of the corresponding University, its buildings, laboratories, and equipment and of any institution maintained by that University, and may cause an inquiry to be made in respect of any matter connected with the administration and the finances of that University.
2. (2) The Chancellor of a corresponding University shall, in every case, give notice to the University of his intention to cause an inspection or inquiry to be made, and, on receipt of such notice, that University shall be entitled to appoint a representative who shall have the right to be present, and heard, at such inspection or inquiry..
3. (3) The Chancellor of a corresponding University may address the Board of the University with reference to the result of such inspection or inquiry with such advice as he may offer regarding the action to be taken..
4. (4) The Board shall communicate to the Chancellor such action as it proposes to take or has taken as the result of such inspection or inquiry..
5. (5) If the Board does not, within a reasonable time, take action to the satisfaction of the Chancellor, he may, after considering any explanation furnished or representation made by the Board, issue such directions as he may deem fit, and the Board shall comply with such directions.