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Powers of the University.- The University shall have the following powers,- (i) to administer and manage the University and such academic entities for research, education, instruction and extension as are necessary for the furtherance of the objects of the University; (ii) to provide for instruction in such branches of knowledge or learning as the University may think fit and to make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of such knowledge including through online education as per the rules applicable from time to time; (iii) to plan and carry out courses of study for degrees, diplomas, certificates or for any other purpose; (iv) to organize and undertake teaching, research and extension services; (v) to evaluate and assess the performance of the students of the University; (vi) to grant diploma certificates, and to confer degrees and other academic distinctions on persons subject to such conditions as the University may determine; 14 (vii) to confer honorary degree or other distinctions in the manner laid down in the Statutes or the Regulations; (viii) to determine, demand, collect and revise fees and other charges as may be defined by the Rules and the Regulations not prohibited by law in force; (ix) to institute and maintain halls and hostels for the welfare of the students; (x) to establish and run the Constituent Colleges and oversee the imparting of education therein; (xi) to establish and recognize such campuses, special centers, specialized study centers, research centers, specialized laboratories or other units for research and instruction as are, in the opinion of the University, necessary for the furtherance of its objects; (xii) to supervise and regulate the discipline of the students of the University; (xiii) to make arrangements for promoting the health and well-being of the students; (xiv) to make such requisite arrangements in respect of the residence, discipline and teaching of women, other socio-economic backward classes and disabled students; (xv) to institute, suspend or abolish professorship, associate professorship, assistant professorship, readerships, lectureships, and any other teaching, academic or research and non-teaching posts required by the University; (xvi) to appoint or recognize persons as professors, associate professors, assistant professors, readers, lecturers or otherwise as teachers and researchers of the University; (xvii) to create academic, technical, administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointments thereto as per Statutes; (xviii) to make appointments of the faculty, officers and employees of the University or a Constituent College, Campuses, Regional Centers, Research Centers, Study Centers from India and abroad; (xix) to lay down conditions of service of all categories of employees, including their code of conduct and enforce discipline among the employees of the University and to take such disciplinary measures as may be deemed necessary; (xx) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, studentships, assistantships, stipends, tuition waivers, medals and prizes; 15 (xxi) to provide for printing, reproduction and publication of research, journals and other works and to organize exhibitions for such purposes; (xxii) to either partner or co-operate with any other organization, institution, national and international body, including public-private partnership, in the matter of education, training and research in subjects, the University may deem fit for such purposes as may be agreed upon on such terms and conditions as the University may, from time to time, determine; (xxiii) to invite and/ or to appoint Visiting Professors, Emeritus Professors, Adjunct Professors and Faculty, Guest Faculty, Consultants, Artists, Practitioners, Scholars and such other persons who may contribute to the advancement of the objects of the University; (xxiv) to establish and maintain within the University‟s premises or elsewhere, such class rooms and study halls as the University may consider necessary and adequately furnish the same and to establish and maintain such libraries and reading rooms as may appear convenient or necessary for the University; (xxv) to regulate the expenditure and to manage the accounts of the University; (xxvi) to receive grants, subventions, subscriptions, donations and gifts for the purposes of the University and consistent with the object for which the University is established; (xxvii) to purchase, take on lease or accept as gifts or otherwise any land or building or works which may be necessary or convenient for the purpose of the University, on such terms and conditions as it may think fit and proper and to construct or alter and maintain any such building or works; (xxviii) to acquire, sell, exchange, lease or otherwise dispose of any portion or whole of the immovable properties of the University, on such terms as it may think fit and proper without prejudice to the interest and activities of the University upon the prior approval of the Government; (xxix) to draw and accept, to make and endorse, to discount and negotiate, Government of India and other promissory notes, bills of exchange, cheques or other negotiable instruments; (xxx) to appoint in order to execute an instrument or transact any business of the University, any person as it may deem fit; (xxxi) to give up and cease from carrying on any classes or schools or centers of the University if it so deems fit; 16 (xxxii) to enter into any agreement with the Central Government, State Governments, the University Grants Commission or other authorities for receiving grants; (xxxiii) to invest the funds of the University or money entrusted to the University in or upon such securities and in such manner as it may deem fit and to transpose any investment as required from time to time; (xxxiv) to make such statutes or regulations as may, from time to time, be considered necessary for regulating the affairs and the management of the University and to alter, modify and to rescind them; (xxxv) to make provisions for extracurricular activities for students and employees; (xxxvi) to organize and conduct refresher courses, orientation courses, workshops, seminars and other programmes for teachers, evaluators and other academic staff; (xxxvii) to determine standards of admission to the University or a Constituent College, Regional Centers, Research Centers, Study Centers with the approval of Academic Council; (xxxviii) to constitute for the benefit of the academic, technical, administrative and other staff, in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be specified by the regulations, schemes such as pension, insurance, provident fund and gratuity, as it may deem fit, and to make such grants as it may think fit for the benefit of any employees of the University, and to aid in establishment and support of the associations, institutions, fund, trusts and conveyance calculated to benefit the staff and the students of the University; (xxxix) to enter into Memoranda of Understanding and partnerships with national and international universities, institutes and research bodies of repute, think-tanks; industry and professional bodies across different spheres of education and to institute programmes such as exchange of faculty, exchange of students, faculty development workshops, sharing of knowledge, resources and publications, etc; (xl) to do all such other acts and things as the University may consider necessary, conducive, or incidental to the attainment or enlargement of the aforesaid objects or anyone of them. (xli) to delegate if required all or any of its powers to the Vice Chancellor or the Pro-Vice-Chancellor(s) of the University or any committee or any sub- committee or to any one or more members or its body or its officers; 17 (xlii) to acquire and takeover and run the management of any other educational institutions with prior approval of Government; (xliii) to raise, collect, subscribe and borrow money with the approval of the Board of Governors, for the purposes of the University; and (xliv) to undertake any other activities connected with or incidental to above objectives of the University.