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ORDINARY MEETING OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE: (a) Notice of Ordinary Meeting The Registrar shall, under direction of the Vice-Chancellor, give not less than 15 daysnotice to an ordinary meeting. If it is not possible to conduct the notified meeting for any valid reason, the Vice-Chancellor is competent to postpone the date fixed for an ordinary meeting by a period not longer than fourteen days. (b) Questions at the meeting of the Academic Senate: At an ordinary meeting of the Academic Senate, any member may put questions for the purpose of obtaining information on any matter concerning the University and the Academic Senate. In order that a question may be admissible, it must satisfy the following conditions: (i) If a question contains a statement, the member asking it shall make himself/herself be responsible for the accuracy of the statement; (ii) It shall not contain arguments, inferences, ironical expressions or defamatory statements or innuendos; (iii) It shall not ask for an expression of opinion / the solution for an abstract, legal question /suggestion regarding a course of action. Nor shall the question be a hypothetical proposition; (iv) It shall not refer to the character or conduct of any person except in his official capacity in the University; (v) No question once fully answered shall be put again. (c) Notice of Question: Any members who wishes to put a question shall forwarded to the Registrar a notice in writing to that effect, together with a copy of the questions to be put so as to reach him / her not less than ten clear days before the date of an ordinary meeting. No member can put more than two questions and no question shall refer to more than one subject. (d) Disallowance of questions: After the last date for the receipt of questions, the Vice- Chancellor shall decide the admissibility of the questions and the answers that should be given thereto. He / She may disallow any question on the ground that in his / her opinion, the question, - (i) is in contravention of the Acts, Statute or Ordinances of the University; (ii) relates to a matter that is not primarily the concern of the University; (iii) involves the preparation of elaborate statements or statistics involving an excessive amount of time and labour, or (iv) cannot be answered in the interest of the University. (e) Vice-Chancellor’s decision: The decision of the Vice-Collector as to the admissibility of a question shall be final, and no discussion thereon shall be permitted at any meeting of the Academic Senate. (f) Answers to questions: Questions which have been admitted, and the answers given thereto, shall be printed and circulated to the members of the Academic Senate along with the final Agenda. (g) Dates for forwarding and withdrawal of resolutions: Any member who wishes to move or withdraw a resolution at an ordinary meeting, shall forward a copy of the resolution to the Registrar so as to reach him not less than ten days before the date of the meeting. A member, who has forwarded a resolution, may withdraw a resolution by giving written notice, which shall reach the Registrar not less than six days before the date fixed for the dispatch of the preliminary agenda paper. (h) Dispatch of Preliminary agenda papers: Not less than ten (10) days before the date of an ordinary meeting, the Registrar shall, under the direction of the Vice- Chancellor, send by post / e-mail to every member a preliminary agenda paper specifying the date, time, and place of the meeting and the business to be brought up before the meeting. However, the Executive Council or the Vice-Chancellor may bring up any business, which in its or its or his / her opinion is urgent, before any ordinary meeting at shorter notice or without placing the same on the agenda paper. (i) Dispatch of final agenda papers: The Registrar shall, prepare under the direction of the Vice- Chancellor, a final agenda paper, showing the questions and answers, all the resolutions as in the preliminary agenda paper and all the resolutions received and the amendments admitted and send a copy of it by post to each member of the Academic Senate not less than five days before the date of the meeting.