Powers and duties of the University

The University shall have the following powers and duties namely :-

1. (i) to serve as a ‘Centre of Excellence’ in providing education in the branches of forestry and horticulture and to make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in those branches and manage the accreditation thereof;
2. (ii) to admit any college to the privileges of affiliation of recognition or to withdraw or curtail any such privilege and guide and control the work of affiliated and associated colleges;
3. (iii) to confer degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions;
4. (iv) to hold examinations for, and to grant and confer degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions to and on persons who,—

1. (a) have pursued a course of study in the University; or
2. (b) have carried on research in the University or in an institution recognized in that behalf by the University or independently, under conditions laid down in the Statutes and the Ordinances; or
3. (c) have pursued a course of study by correspondence whether residing within the area of the University or not, and have been registered by the University, subject to such conditions as may be laid down in the Statutes and Ordinances as external candidates; or
4. (d) are teachers or other employees in the University or in an institute in other educational institutions under conditions laid down in the Statutes and the Ordinance or are inspecting officers permanently employed in the Department of Education of the State Government and have carried on private studies under conditions laid down in the Statutes and the Ordinances;
   • (v) to hold examinations for and to grant the degree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry and Horticulture, Master of Science in Forestry and Horticulture, diploma in Forestry and Horticulture, Doctorate in subjects of Forestry and Horticulture to persons who are students of the University pursuing different courses;
   • (vi) to confer honorary degrees or other academic distinctions in the manner and under conditions laid down in the Statutes;
   • (vii) to provide such lectures and instructions for persons not being students of the University as the University may determine;
   • (viii) to co-operate or collaborate with other Universities and authorities in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine;
   • (ix) to institute and award scholarship, fellowship, stipend, medals, prizes and to undertake other student welfare activities;
   • (x) to recognize for the purposes of admissions to a course of study for a degree, as equivalent to its own degree, any degree conferred by another University or as equivalent to the Intermediate Examination of the Board of High School and Intermediate Education, Uttar Pradesh or any equivalent examination conducted by any other University or Authority;
   • (xi) to establish, maintain and administer institutes of research, laboratories, libraries and other things necessary to carry out the objects of the University;
   • (xii) to create teaching, administrative, ministerial, technical, non-teaching and other necessary posts required by the University and to make appointments thereto;
   • (xiii) to lay down the conditions of affiliation or recognition of colleges and to satisfy itself by periodical inspection and otherwise that those conditions are satisfied;
   • (xiv) to institute and maintain halls and hostels and to recognize places of residence for students of the University;
   • (xv) to demand and receive such fees and other charges as may be fixed by the Ordinances or Statutes or Regulations;
   • (xvi) to supervise and control the residence and to regulate the discipline of students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health;
   • (xvii) to do all such acts and carry out such functions, whether incidental to the aforesaid powers or not, as may be requisite in order to further the objects of the University. (xviii) to provide training for farmers, field officers and staffs of the Forest Department in the field of Forestry, Horticulture, Agroforestry and other advance skills as may be laid down by the University.