Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
The Objects of the University.- (1) The Objects of the University shall be to advance and disseminate learning and knowledge of economics and allied subjects and their role in national development, to develop in the students and research scholars a sense of responsibility to serve the society at large in the field of higher education and to organise lectures, seminars, symposia and conferences to promote knowledge and to make economic strategies as efficient instruments of social development, to hold examinations and confer degrees and other academic distinctions and to do all such things as are incidental, necessary or conducive to the attainment of all or any of the objects of the University and the values enshrined in the Constitution of India. (2) The University shall be open to all persons irrespective of race, creed, caste or class of all religions and it shall not be lawful for the University to impose on any person any test whatsoever of religious belief or profession in order to entitle him to be admitted thereto as a teacher or a student or to hold any Office therein or to graduate thereat or to enjoy or to exercise any privilege thereof. (3) The aims and objects of the University shall be,- (a) to become a globally recognised Institution of excellence in the field of higher education focusing on economics and allied disciplines; (b) to develop the autonomous institution into an advanced centre for teaching, research, training and policy advocacy; (c) to undertake training programmes for policy makers and others from both public and private sectors; (d) to offer consultancy and to accept sponsored projects in the fields of economics and other social sciences; (e) to undertake by itself and to provide assistance for publications including publication of journals, research papers, working papers, policy briefs and of articles, occasional papers, journals, periodicals and books; use of digital media, visual media, print media for its outreach activities and for augmenting library information services for the furtherance of any of its aims and objects; (f) to cooperate, collaborate and work jointly with International, National, State and other local Agencies or Institutions or Entities in economics and other related disciplines, in the areas of teaching, research, training and policy advocacy, and arrange for exchange of students, material and data as also in organizing symposia, conferences, workshops, interactions and in undertaking research and project consultancies; 5 (g) to invite representatives of Governments, Universities, Institutions, Policy advocacy groups and such other Organizations of India and of foreign countries and invite outstanding persons in the fields of academics, policy making and business of national or international repute to participate in the programmes of the University; (h) to do all such lawful acts and things either by itself or jointly with other entities or organizations or persons as the University may consider necessary, incidental and essential or conducive to the attainment of any or all of the objects of the University referred to or implied above; (i) generally to take all such measures as are within the competence of the University for the promotion of research in respect of social and economic development and to perform all such academic functions and undertake such other academic activities as may be approved by the Executive Council; and (j) to take up other works as desired by the Executive Council, from time to time, and also works entrusted by the State Government or the Central Government or other Government Agencies, Corporate Bodies- public or private, from time to time, in the fields of economics, education and related aspects.