section 7
Powers of the University
The Tripura Government Technical University Act, 2026The University shall have the following powers, namely: - i) to make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge, and generally to cultivate and promote the general education and other branches of learning and culture and their interdisciplinary areas; ii) to provide for establishment, on the University campus, of autonomous institutions like interuniversity centers, research laboratories, modem instrumentation centers and like centers of learning, set up by the Central Government or the, State Government and the University Grants Commission or other approval authority of the Central Government, which may be used by a university or college or, group of universities or colleges or industries or any non-Government organizations; iii) to admit students to the various courses of study of the University and to conduct examinations or tests and lay down conditions in respect thereof. The University can admit students from all other states and union territories and 8(eight) SAARC countries and other countries in various courses of study; iv) To gradually adopt NEP 2020 guidelines and recommendations from the UGC or the AICTE, v) to institute and award degrees and research-based degrees, post-graduate diplomas, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions as per the prevailing UGC / AICTE guidelines and on the basis of examinations or by other tests or otherwise; vi) to regulate the conduct of the students of the University, vii) to regulate the work and conduct of the employees of the University; viii) to regulate and enforce discipline among the employees and the students of the University and take such disciplinary measures in this regard as may be deemed necessary; ix) to make arrangements for promoting the health and general welfare of the employees of the University; x) to hold examinations and confer degrees, postgraduate degrees, postgraduate diplomas and award diplomas and certificates and other academic distinctions to, and on, persons, who — a) have pursued a course of study in the University, constituent or affiliated colleges or institutions, or b) have carried on research in the University, constituent or affiliated colleges or institutions; xi) to confer honorary degrees or other academic distinctions as prescribed by the Statutes; xii) to establish a college or an institution or a Faculty of the University imparting general or technical education run and maintained by the University; xiii) to lay down the conditions of affiliation of courses or colleges and recognition of institutions taking into account the credibility of the Management and the norms of academic performance of institutions, faculties and subjects, as may be laid down, from time to time, and satisfy itself by periodical assessment or otherwise that those conditions are fulfilled; xiv) to provide for the supervision and control of residence and discipline of students of the University and to make arrangements for promotion of their health xv) (Note: The numbering continues in sequence) to receive, grants from the University Grants Commission, AICTE and other sources; xvi) to raise loans or to accept loans from the Central or the State Government and other sources; xvii) to assess the needs in terms of subjects, fields of specialization, levels of education and training of manpower, both on short and long term basis, and to initiate necessary programmes to meet these needs; xviii) subject to any other law for the time being in force, to undertake academic collaboration programmes with universities and institutions abroad, with the approval of the State Government; xix) to receive funds for collaboration programmes from foreign agencies subject to any Act, rules and regulations of the Central Government and the State Government in that behalf; xx) to lay down for the University teachers, the service conditions including code of conduct, workload, norms of performance appraisal, and such other instructions or directions as, in the opinion of the University, may be necessary in the interest of academic standard; xxi) to constitute and reconstitute Internal Revenue Generation policy
- (IRG) of the University time to time and to undertake development programmes in general or technical education, research, consultancy-based projects and training programmes for outside agencies, by charging fees, so as to generate resources; xxii) to comply with and carry out any directives issued by the State Government from time to time, with reference, to above powers, duties and responsibilities of the University subject to amendment in the existing act; xxiii) to institute Professorships, Associate Professorships, Assistant Professorships and any other teaching posts required by the University and to appoint persons to such Professorships, Associate Professorships, Assistant Professorships as per UGC regulations and other posts; xxiv) to recognize an institution of higher learning or a laboratory or institutions of similar nature for such purposes as the University may determine and to withdraw such recognition; xxv) to enter into contracts and agreements with the approval of the Board of Management in furtherance of the objects of the University; xxvi) to acquire, hold and dispose of properties, and immovable, for furthering any of the objects of the University; xxvii) to maintain organized laboratories, libraries, museums and to provide such other equipment for teaching and research as is required; xxviii) to create a corpus fund for the University and transfer in full or part, donations received from alumni, industries and other national and international foundations, organizations as may be approved by the Board of Management of the University and to decide the modalities for the utilization of such a corpus fund; xxix) to constitute and manage -
- (a) Printing and Publication Departments;
- (b) University Extension Boards; (c ) Information Bureau; and
- (d) Employment Bureaus; xxx) to make provisions for the maintenance of National Cadet Corps or other similar organizations, National Service Scheme, sports and athletic clubs etc.; and xxxi) to do all such other acts and things as may be necessary or incidental to the exercise of all or any of the powers of the University or necessary for or - conducive to the attainment of all or any of the objects of the University; xxxii) to seek and put effort to obtain assessment and accreditation by the bodies like National Board of Accreditation
- (NBA) and National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).
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