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The University shall exercise the following powers and the following functions, namely:- *[(a) to provide facilities and promote studies and research in emerging areas of higher education, including new frontiers of technology, pharmacy, environmental studies, non-conventional energy sources and management studies and also to achieve excellence in these and connected fields; *(b) to hold examinations and grant degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions or titles to persons in the fields of emerging areas of higher education, technology, pharmacy, management etc. as laid down in the Statutes, Ordinances or Regulations;] ( c) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions on approved persons in the manner laid down in the Statutes; (d) to institute prizes, medals, research studentships, exhibitions and fellowships; (e) to receive gifts, donations or benefactions from the Government and to receive gifts, donations and transfers of movable or immovable property from transfers, donors, testators, as the case may be; and to create such corpus fund with the donations so received for the welfare of the University; (f) to institute principalships, professorships, readerships, lecturerships, and to create other posts of any description required by the University and to appoint persons to such posts; (g) to cooperate with educational and other institutions in India and abroad having objectives similar to those of the University in such manner as may be conducive to their common goals; * Amended by Haryana Act No. 11 of 1996 and further amended by Haryana Ordinance No. 2 of 1996 and approved by Haryana Act No. 3 of 1998. (h) to provide instruction, including correspondence and such other courses, to such persons as are not members of the university, as it may determine; (i) to approve persons for imparting instruction in any college or institution admitted to the privileges of the University; 7 *[(j) to maintain institutes, colleges of technology, pharmacy, management, Post Graduate Regional Centre, Sirsa etc. established by the university and to admit to its privileges, colleges or technology, pharmacy, management and colleges or institutes in the areas specified under sub-section (1) of section 4 and to disaffiliate colleges or institutes if they are not being run as per provisions of the Act, Statutes or Ordinances contained therein;] (k) to declare a college, an institution or a department as autonomous college or institution or department, as the case may be; (l) to borrow with the approval of the Government, on the security of the property of the University, money for the purposes of the University; (m) to supervise, control and regulate the residence, conduct and discipline of the students of the University and of colleges and institutions within the jurisdiction of the University; (n) to deal with any property belonging to, or vested in the University, in such manner as the University may deem fit for advancing the objects of the University; (o) to assess the needs of the State and the country in terms of subjects, fields of specialization, levels of education and training of technical manpower both on short and long term basis and to initiate necessary programmes to meet those needs; (p) to organize advanced studies and research programmes based on a deep understanding of the trends in engineering, technology, ** [pharmacy], management and in allied sciences so that the production will be ensured of men who are not only up-to-date but also will be able to provide the lead; * Inserted Ordinance No. 2 of 1996 and approved by Haryana Act No. 3 of 1998. (q) to promote research, design and development activities that have a relevance to social needs and the development programmes of the State; (r ) to initiate measures to enlist the cooperation of industries and Government employers to provide complementary facilities; (s) to provide for continuous experimentation in imparting knowledge, organization of training and preparation of text books and other instructional materials; 8 (t) to arrange for progressive introduction of continuous evaluation and reorientation of the subjectives in educational measurement. (u) to further entrepreneurial ability among its students; (v) to educate the public with regard to the requirement of , and opportunities, in the profession of engineering, technology, management and allied sciences and its responsibilities and services to society. University open to all races, classes, castes and creeds.