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Powers and duties of Executive Council

The Uttar Pradesh Forestry and Horticulture University Act, 2026
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Chapter VI AUTHORITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY

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  1. (1) The Executive Council shall be the Principal Executive Body of the University, and subject to the provisions of this Act, have the following powers, and functions, namely:-
    • (i) to hold and control the property and funds of the University;
    • (ii) to acquire or transfer any movable or immovable property on behalf of the University;
    • (iii) to make, amend or repeal Statutes and Ordinances;
    • (iv) to administer any funds placed at the disposal of the University for specific purposes;
    • (v) to prepare the budget of the University;
    • (vi) to award scholarships, fellowships, bursaries, medals and other awards in accordance with the Statutes and the Ordinances;
    • (vii) to appoint officers, teachers and other employees of the University and to define their duties and the conditions of their service and to provide for the filling of temporary casual vacancies in their posts;
    • (viii) to fix the fees, emoluments and traveling and other allowances of the examiners;
    • (ix) to arrange for and direct the inspection of the University, affiliated, associated or constituent colleges, halls and hostels;
    • (x) to direct the form and use of the common seal of the University;
    • (xi) to regulate and enforce discipline among members of the teaching, administrative and other staff of the University in accordance with the Statutes and Ordinances;
    • (xii) to manage and regulate the finance, accounts, investments, property, business and all other administrative affairs of the University, and for that purpose, to appoint such agents as it may think fit;
    • (xiii) to arrange for the deposits and withdrawal of the funds of the University;
    • (xiv) to provide the buildings, premises, with furniture and apparatus and other means needed for carrying on the work of the University;
    • (xv) to enter into, to vary, carry out and cancel contracts on behalf of the University;
    • (xvi) to regulate and determine all other matters concerning the University as well as constituent colleges and Institutes in accordance with the Ordinances and the Statutes;
    • (xvii) to periodically review the functioning of various academic departments and research centres to ensure they are functioning as per the aims and objects of the University and to give directions, as deemed necessary, for improvements.
  2. (2) No immovable property of the University shall, except with the prior sanction of the State Government, be transferred (except by way of letting from month to month in the ordinary course of management) by the Executive Council by way of mortgage, sale, exchange, gift or otherwise, nor shall any money be borrowed or advance taken on the security thereof except as a condition of receipt of any grant-in-aid of the University from the State Government, or with the previous sanction of the State Government from any other person.
  3. (3) No expenditure in respect of which approval of the State Government is required by this Act or the Statutes shall be incurred except with such approval previously obtained, and no post shall be created either in the University or any Institute except with the prior approval of the State Government (or except in accordance with any general or special order of the State Government).
  4. (4) The Executive Council may, with the prior approval of the University Grants Commission and State Government, create supernumerary post of a teacher of the University with a view to enabling a teacher who is for the time being holding a responsible position of national importance in India or abroad in educational administration or other similar assignments, to retain his increments in his pay scale during the period of his assignment and to contribute towards provident fund and earn retirement benefits, if in accordance with the Statutes: Provided that no salary shall be payable to such teacher by the University for the period of such assignment.
  5. (5) The pay and other allowances to various categories of the employees of the University or of any Institute shall be such as may be approved by the State Government.
  6. (6) The Executive Council shall not exceed the limits of recurring expenditure to be incurred in each financial year fixed by the Finance Committee.
  7. (7) The Executive Council shall not take action in regard to the number, qualifications and emoluments of teachers, and the fees payable to examiners, except after considering the advice of the Academic Council and the Boards of faculties concerned.
  8. (8) The Executive Council may, subject to any conditions laid down in the Statutes, delegate such of its powers as it deems fit to an officer or any other authority of the University, or to a committee appointed by it.
  9. (9) Every meeting of the Executive Council shall be presided over by the Vice-Chancellor. One-third of the members of the Executive Council shall form the quorum at any meeting.
  10. (10) All decisions of the Executive Council shall be taken on the basis of the opinion of the majority of the members who are present in the meeting. Each member of the Executive Council shall have one vote and if there be equality of votes, the Chairperson of the Executive Council or, as the case may be, the member presiding over that meeting shall, in addition, have a casting vote.
  11. (11) If urgent action by the Executive Council becomes necessary, the Vice- Chancellor may permit the business to be transacted by circulation of papers to the members of the Executive Council. The action so proposed to be taken shall not be taken unless agreed to by a majority of members of the Executive Council. The action so taken shall be forthwith intimated to all the members of the Executive Council.

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