Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in College and y^c t o r tjje Statutes or Regulations or Orders made t»the^Uni- thereunder, the Assam Agricultural College, Jorhat versitv. and the Assam Veterinary College, Khanapara shall as from such date as the State Government may by notification in the official Gazette specify be disaffiliated from the Dibrugarh and Gauhati Universities respectively and shall be maintained by the Assam Agricultural University as constituent Colleges. (2) The control and management of the Colleges specified in sub-section (1) shall from the aforesaid day stand transferred to the University and all properties and assets and liabilities and obligations of the State Government in relation thereto shall stand transferred to, vest in or devolve upon the University. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or the Statutes or Regulations made thereun der, any student of the College specified in sub-sec tion (1) who is studying for any examination of the Dibrugarh or the Gauhati University as the case may be shall be permitted to complete his course and preparation therefor and the University shall make arrangements for holding for such students examinations for such period as may be prescribed in accordance with the curriculum of studies of the Dibrugarh or the Gauhati Univer sit v. Such students shall appear at the examina tions within 3 years of the normal period required for completing the said course of studies. (4) The control and management of all research and educational institutions of the department of Agriculture, the Department of Animal Husbandry and Gram Sevak Training Centres in the State shall as from such date as the State Government f may by order specify be transferred to the Univer sity and thereupon all the properties and assets and liabilities and obligations of the State Govern ment in relation to such institutions shall stand transferred to, vest in or devolve upon the Univer sity. (5) After the passing of this Act, every person employed in any of the Colleges specified in sub-section (1) or in any of the institutions referred to in sub section ('4) immediately before the appointed day or the day or the date specified in the order under sub section (4) shall from the appointed or specified day become an employee of the University, and shall be subject to the provisions of this Act and the-Statutes and Regulations made thereunder. THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, JA N /2, 1969 Provided: (a) that, during the period of such employ ment all matters relating to pay, leave, retire ment, allowances, pension, Provident Fund and other conditions of service of the members of such staff shall be regulated by the Assam Civil Services Rules or such other rules as may, from time to time, be made by the State Govern ment ; (b) that, any such member shall have a right of appeal to the State Government against any order of reduction, dismissal or removal from service or any other punishment. (6) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (7) and (8) all employees who are either permanent or on probation or on temporary service, taken over and employed by the University under sub-section (5) shall have a lien on their post in the service of the State Government and the period of their service under the University shall if they choose to revert to the service of the State Government be counted for their increment, pension, and other matters relating to their service. (7) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (5) and (6), every officer or servant of the State Government taken over by the University, shall, within a period of two years from the date he is so taken over [or such further time (if any) as the State Government may decide], give notice in writing to the State Government:— (ay that, he should be permitted to retire and thereupon he shall be permitted to retire from the Government service and shall be entitl ed to such terminal benefits as compensations, pension or gratuity or the like, as may be pres cribed by the State Government or <b) that, he should be permanently absor bed in the service of the University, and there upon the University, shall absorb him permanen tly. Any service rendered by him under the State Government, shall be deemed to be THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, JAN. 2, 1969 service under the University, and he shall be entitled to receive from the University, such terms and conditions of service in respect of remuneration, leave and pension and such rights in respeet of disciplinary matters or rights similar thereto as changed circumstances may permit as are not less favourable than those to which that person was entitled to imm< d lately before he was taken over by the Univer;ity, or (c) that, he should be permitted to revert to Government service and thereupon he shall be permitted to revert to the service on tire same terms and conditions of service applicable to him immediately before he was taken over by the University. (8) If any Officer or servant of the State Govern ment fails to give notice under sub-section (7) in time he shall be deemed to have opted to be permanently absorbed in the service of the University under clause ^b; of sub-section (7). S? rings of