Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Affiliated College" means an institution affiliated to the University in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the statutes made thereunder; (b) "Approved Institution" means an institution of higher education approved by the University/State Government; (c) "Autonomous College" means a college declared as such by the provisions of the University Grants Commission; (d) "College" means any college or institution affiliated to the University in accordance with this Act and the statutes made thereunder; (e) "Existing College" means such college or institution which is providing higher/professional education and is being managed and maintained by any university established in the State; (f) "Other Backward Classes of Citizens" means the Backward Classes of citizens specified in Schedule 1 of the Uttar Pradesh Public Services (Reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes) Act, 1994 (as applicable and modified) Order, 2001; (g) "Academic Council" means the Academic Council of the University; (h) "Chancellor" means the Chancellor of the University; (i) "Court" means the Court of the University; (j) "Director" means the head of the institution established by the University for the organization and conduct of teaching and research in any subject; (k) "Executive Council" means the Executive Council of the University; (l) "Finance Committee" means the Finance Committee of the University; (m) "Government" means the Government of Uttarakhand; (n) "Registrar" means the Registrar of the University; (o) "State" means the State of Uttarakhand; (p) "Statutes", "Ordinances", and "Regulations" means respectively the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations of the University; (q) "University Grants Commission" means the University Grants Commission established under the University Grants Commission Act, 1956; (r) "Prescribed" means prescribed by Regulations; (s) "Principal" means the head of a college, by whatever name called, and includes, where there is no Principal, a person duly appointed to act as Principal, and in the absence of the Principal or Acting Principal, a Vice-Principal duly appointed as such; (t) "Regulation" means the Regulations of the University made under this Act; (u) "University" means the University established under Section 3 of this Act; (v) "Constituent College" means an institution maintained by the University or the State Government and declared as such under the Statutes; (w) "Maintenance Grant" means the grant-in-aid received by a college from the State Government from time to time by general or special order; (x) "Management" in relation to an affiliated or constituent college or self-financed institution means the managing committee or other body on which the responsibility for the management of the affairs of that college or institution lies, and which is recognized as such by the University; (y) "Officers of the University" means the officers mentioned in Section 8 of the Act; (z) "Property" in relation to an affiliated or associated college includes all movable and immovable property which belongs to the college or is given for the benefit of the college, whether fully or partially, including land, buildings (including hostels), workshops, libraries, laboratories, equipment, tools, furniture, stationery, stores, motor vehicles or other vehicles, if any, and all items related to the college such as cash in hand, bank deposits, investments and recorded loans and all rights and interests of such property, which are under the ownership, possession, authority or control of the college and includes account registers and all other records of any nature and all existing liabilities, obligations and legal encumbrances of the college, of whatever category they may be; (aa) "Registered Graduate" means a graduate of the University registered under the provisions of this Act and any Act repealed or superseded by it; (ab) "Self-financed institution" means such college or institutions which have been granted affiliation by the University in accordance with this Act, the Ordinances and Statutes made thereunder; (ac) "Teacher" means a person employed in an affiliated or associated college for the purpose of imparting teaching and/or for the guidance of research and extension work, and includes the Principal.