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The *[Executive Council] shall have the following powers, namely:- (1) to make statutes and amend or repeal the statutes; (2) to co-operate with other Universities, academic authorities and colleges in such manner and for such purposes as it may determine; (3) to provide for research and advancement and dissemination of knowledge in Telugu language, literature, culture and allied fields and for this purpose to establish such schools, Departments and Centres of Study as may be considered necessary from time to time in addition to those specified in the schedule; (4) to institute lectureships, readerships, professorships and any other teaching or research posts required by the University; (5) to institute degrees, titles, diplomas and other academic distinctions; (6) to confer degrees, titles, diplomas and other academic distinctions on persons who shall have carried on research under conditions prescribed; (7) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions on the recommendations of not less than two-thirds of the members present at the *[Executive Council]; (8) to establish and maintain halls and hostels; (9) to institute fellowships, travelling fellowships, scholarships, studentships, bursaries, exhibitions, medals, incentives and prizes and to award the same in accordance with the statutes; (10) to consider and take such action as it may deem fit on the annual report, the annual accounts and the financial estimates; (11) to institute a publication bureau with necessary equipment and to maintain it; (12) to enter into any agreement with the Central or any State Government or with a private management for assuming the management of any institution and for taking over its properties and liabilities or for any other purposes not repugnant to the provisions of this Act; (13) to make statutes regulating the method of election to the authorities of the University and the procedure at the meetings of the *[Executive Council] and other authorities of the University and the quorum of members required for the transaction of business by the authorities of the University; (14) to hold, control and administer the properties and funds of the University; (15) to direct the form, custody and use of the common seal of the University; (16) to regulate and determine all matters concerning the University in accordance with this Act and the statutes; (17) to administer all properties and all funds placed at the disposal of the University for specific purposes; (18) (a) to appoint lecturers, Readers, Professors, Visiting Professors, Researchers, Senior Artists and Junior Artists, Directors, Deputy Directors, Assistant Directors, and fix their emoluments, if any, define their duties and the conditions of their services and provide for filling up of temporary vacancies; (b) to make statutes specifying the mode of appointment of administrative and other similar posts and fix their emoluments, if any, define their duties and the conditions of their services and provide for filling up of temporary vacancies; (19) to suspend and dismiss or reinstate the University teachers and other employees of the University; (20) to accept, on behalf of the University endowments, bequests, donations, grants and transfers of any movable and immovable properties made to it; (21) (a) to raise, on behalf of the University loans from the Central or any State Government or the public or any corporation owned or controlled by the Central or any State Government; (b) to borrow money with the approval of the Government on the security of the property of the University for the purposes of the University; (22) to recognise hostels not maintained by the University and to suspend or withdraw recognition of any hostel which is not maintained in accordance with the statutes and the conditions imposed thereunder; (23) to arrange for, and direct, the inspection of hostels; (24) to prescribe the qualifications of teachers and other employees; (25) to charge and collect such fees as may be prescribed; (26) to make statutes regarding the admission of students to the University; (27) to appoint members to the Boards of Studies; (28) to appoint examiners, after consideration of the recommendations of the Boards of Studies and to fix their remuneration; (29) to supervise and control the residence and discipline of the students of the University and make arrangements for securing their health and well being; (30) to institute and manage libraries, museums, institutes of research and other institutions established or maintained by the University; (31) to manage hostels instituted by the University; (32) to promote research within the University and to call for reports, from time to time of such research; (33) to exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as may be conferred or imposed on it by this Act or the statutes; and (34) to delegate any of its powers to the Vice-Chancellor or to a Committee appointed in accordance with the statutes. MEETING OF THE *[EXECUTIVE COUNCIL]