Chapter II Chapter II

(1) The Promoting Society means Unison Education Foundation (Society), Dehradun, shall have the right to establish the DIT UNIVERSITY in accordance with the provisions of this Act. (2) An application containing the proposal to establish a University has been made to the State Government by Promoting Society. The proposal contained the following particulars, namely:-(a) the objects of the University alongwith the details of Promoting Society; (b) the extent and status of the University and the availability of land; (c) the nature and type of programs of study and research to be undertaken in the University during a period of the next five years; (d) the nature of faculties, courses of study and research proposed to be started; (e) the campus development such as buildings, equipment and structural amenities; (f) the phased outlays of capital expenditure for a period of the next five years; (g) the item-wise recurring expenditure, sources of finance and estimated expenditure for each student; (h) the scheme for mobilizing resources and the cost of capital thereto and the manner of repayments to each source; (i) the scheme of generation of funds internally through the recovery of fee from students, revenues anticipated from consultancy and other activities relating to the objects of the University and other anticipated incomes; (j) the details of expenditure on unit cost, the extent of concessions or rebate in fee, free ship and scholarship for students who are permanent resident of the State and the fee structure indicating varying rate of fee, if any, that would be levied on non resident Indians and students of other nationalities;

(1) Where the State Government, after such inquiry is satisfied that Promoting Society, has fulfilled the conditions, norms and requirements for establishment of DIT UNIVERSITY, hence a Private University to be known as DIT UNIVERSITY is hereby established. (2) The University shall be a body corporate by the name “DIT UNIVERSITY” and shall have a perpetual succession and a common seal and shall sue and be sued by its name. (3) (a) The main campus of the University shall be at Dehradun, Uttarakhand. It may also have Campuses or regional centers, study centers at other places provided that the procedures established by the UGC and other statutory bodies shall be complied with. The University can open its second campus within the State after 5 (five) years of its coming into existence with prior approval of the State Government. The University can open other campuses any time in a hill region located at an altitude greater than 2500 feet without any time limit, (b) However, to establish new faculties where additional land would be required as per norms of the concerned regulatory body, the University shall establish a split campus either adjoining or nearby within Dehradun. (4) The Chancellor, the Vice-chancellor, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Registrar, members of the Board of Governors, members of Board of Management and the Academic Council for the time being holding office as such in the University so established, shall constitute a body corporate and can sue and be sued in the name of the University. (5) On the establishment of the University under sub-section (1), the land and other moveable and immoveable properties acquired, created, arranged or built by Promoting Society, for the purpose of the University shall stand transferred to, and vest in the University. (6) The available land, building, various department/faculties of the University shall be must according to the standard of Apex Regulatory Commission. (7) The infrastructural and other facilities of the University campus, off campus center, study center etc. shall be maintained as per the standards laid down by the UGC and other apex regulatory bodies.

The University shall be self financing and shall neither make a demand nor shall be entitled to any grant-in-aid or any other financial assistance from the State Government or any other body or corporation owned or controlled by the State Government. However the University shall be entitled to receive any such grant which may be granted under any special scheme of the State Government or any other body or corporation. This shall have no effect on the self-finance status of the University.

The University may have off–campus centers, Constituent Colleges, Regional Centres, Study Centres and Career Academic Centres but shall have no power to admit any other college or institution to the privileges of affiliation.

The objectives for which the University is established areas follows:- (a) to provide instructions, teaching, training and research in all disciplines pertaining to Technical education, Higher education, Medical and Dental education, Legal education, Aviation education, Social Sciences, General Sciences and other areas of education; (b) to establish campuses or Constituent Colleges of Technical education, Higher education, Medical and Dental education, Legal education, Aviation education, Social Sciences, General Sciences and other areas of education for offering certificate, diploma, graduate degree, post graduate degree and Doctoral degree which would be as nominated by the University Grants Commission but the University shall, have the right to start other diploma and certificate courses in furtherance of its Objectives; (c) to establish a Constituent Centre for Continuing Education to provide instructions through the distance learning methodology for the courses mentioned in programs as given in clause (b) above; (d) to establish examination centres; (e) to institute degrees, diplomas, certificates, and other academic distinctions on the basis of examination, or any other such method; (f) to establish research and development centre to promote research and innovations in the Technical education, Higher education, Medical and Dental education, Legal education, Aviation education, Social Sciences, General Sciences and other areas of education through Seminars, conferences, workshops, educational programmes, community development program, publications, training programmes, and study groups etc.; (g) to undertake extra-mural studies, extension programmes and field outreach activities to contribute to the development of the society; (h) to set up Off-shore campuses as per the provision laid down by UGC. (i) to pursue any other objective as may be approved by the Board of Governors within the rules of the State Government and UGC.

(1) The University shall have the following powers; namely:- (a) to provide for instructions in all disciplines pertaining to Technical education, Higher education, Medical and Dental education, Legal education, Aviation education, Social Sciences, General Sciences and other areas of education and to make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge; (b) to carry out all such other activities as may be necessary or feasible in furtherance of the objects of the University; (c) to hold examinations for, and to institute grant and confer degrees or other academic distinctions to, and on, persons, who: (1) have pursued a course of study in the University or in a constituent College or through its distance education system at Regional Centre/ Study Centre/ Career Academy Centre; or (2) have carried on research in the University or in a constituent body or under its distance education center; (d) to confer honorary degrees or other academic distinctions in the manner and under conditions laid down in the Statutes/Provisions; (e) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships and prizes etc. accordance with the Statutes; (f) to demand and receive such fees, deposits, bills, invoices and collect charges as may be fixed by the Statutes or rules, as the case may be; (g) to establish, maintain and recognize such Regional Centres and Study Centres as may be determined by the University from time to time in the manner laid down by the Statutes after the completion of five years of the University. In this regard the guidelines of the State Government and UGC as applicable from time to time shall be followed; (h) to make provisions for extra curricular activities for students and employees; (i) to make appointments of faculty, officers and employees of the university or a Campus College, Constituent College, Regional Centres, Study Centres, Research Centres, Career Academy Centre; (j) to receive donations and gifts of any kind and to acquire, hold, manage, maintain and dispose of any movable or immovable property, for the purpose of the University or a Constituent College, or a Regional Centre, Study Centre and Career Academy Centre with prior permission of the Promoting Society; (k) to institute and maintain halls/hostels and to recognize places of residence for students of the University or a Constituent College; (l) to supervise and control the residence of students and to regulate the discipline among the students and all categories of employees and to lay down the conditions of service of such employees including their Code of Conduct; (m) to create Academic, Administrative, and Supporting staff and other necessary posts; (n) to co-operate and collaborate with other Universities, Institutions, Organizations, Individuals, Industries and Societies in India and abroad in such a manner and for such purposes as the University may determine from time to time; (o) to provide distant education system and the manner in which distance education in relation to the academic programmes of the University may be organized; (p) to organize and conduct refresher course, orientation courses, workshops, seminars and other programmes for teachers, lesson writers, evaluators and other academic staff; (q) to determine standards of admission to the University or a Constituent College, Regional Centres, Study Centres, with the approval of Academic Council; (r) to make special provision for permanent resident of Uttarakhand for admission in any course of the University or in a Constituent College, Regional Centre, Study Centre, Research Centre and Career Academic Centre as per merit; (s) to prescribe such courses for Bachelor Degree, Post Graduate Degree, Doctor of Pholosophy, Doctor of Science Degree and Research and to start Diploma, Certificates in Technical education, Higher education, Medical and Dental education, Legal education, Aviation education, Social Sciences, General Sciences and other areas of education which would be covered by UGC and other statutory bodies; (t) to clearly set apart the academic activities of the University from the activities of the Promoting Society; (u) to provide for the preparation of instructional materials, including films, cassettes, tapes, video cassettes, CD, DVD and other softwares; (v) to recognize examinations of, or periods of study (whether in full or in part) of other Universities, Institutions or other places of higher learning as equivalent to examinations or periods of study in the University and to withdraw such recognition at any time; (w) to raise, collect, subscribe and borrow funds with the approval of the Board of Governors whether on the security of the property of the University, money for the purposes of the University; (x) to enter into, carry out, amend or cancel contracts; (y) to do all such other acts or things whether incidental to the powers aforesaid or not, as may be necessary to further the objects of the University; (z) to sue or be sued in its own name as a Legal Entity in any Court of Law, Tribunal or Authority through its authorized officer. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force but without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (1), it shall be the duty of the University to take all such steps as it may deem fit for the promotion of the university and distance education system and for the determination of standards of teaching, evaluation and research in such systems and for the purpose of performing this function, the University shall have such powers, including the power to allocate and disburse grants to Colleges, Regional Centres and Study Centres and Career Academy Centres, whether admitted to its privileges or not or to any other University or institution of higher learning, as may be specified by the Statutes.

The University shall be open to all persons irrespective of class, caste, creed or, gender; Provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent the University from making special provisions for admission to permanent

The University shall seek accreditation from respective national accreditation bodies.