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Powers and functions of the Executive Council.- (1) The Executive Council shall be the Chief Executive Body of the University. The Executive Council shall have the powers to manage the affairs of the University and be responsible for the orderly functioning of the University. (2) Without prejudice to the generally of the foregoing, the Executive Council shall have the following powers, functions and duties, namely:- (i) to receive, acquire, hold, control, administer, manage and regulate the funds and properties of the University and for that purpose appoint such agents as it may deem necessary and proper; (ii) to cause to be maintained proper record of the properties and the funds of the University and consider its annual accounts and audit report for the past year and its budget estimates for the next year, as put up by the Finance Committee before making recommendations on them to the State Government: Provided that, the Executive Council shall cause to adopt the Public Finance Management System (PFMS) as may be directed by the State Government within one year from the date of coming into force of this Act. (iii) to enter into, vary, and cancel contracts on behalf of the University; (iv) to administer and control the colleges, hostels, libraries, laboratories, museums and other institutions established or maintained by the University; (v) to recognize, regulate, supervise and control the residence and discipline of students of the University within the campus or its annexes and elsewhere to promote their health and wellbeing; (vi) to create teaching and academic posts, such as, Professors including honorary or emeritus or adjunct Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors and any other posts of the University, to determine the number of such posts, to prescribe their duties and conditions of service and take appropriate steps to recruit them as and when necessary, based on the recommendation of the Academic Council and as may be prescribed by the statutes, ordinances and regulations; (vii) to create administrative, ministerial, other necessary posts and to make appointments thereto in the manner as may be prescribed by the statutes, ordinances and regulations, subject to the approval of the State Government; (viii) to institute fellowships, travelling fellowships, scholarships, studentships, exhibitions, medals and prizes on the recommendations of the Academic Council; (ix) to regulate and enforce discipline among all categories of faculty, staff and students within and outside its campuses, as prescribed by the statutes, ordinances and regulations; (x) to lay down and revise from time to time, the fee structure in respect of tuition, research, examination, inspection and others, as may be prescribed by the ordinances and regulations with the approval of the State Government; (xi) to conduct examinations, as may be prescribed by the ordinances and regulations; (xii) to appoint, subject to the provisions of the ordinances and regulations, examiners and moderators and if necessary to change or to remove them and also to fix their fee, emoluments and travelling and other allowances; (xiii) to consider the recommendations of the Academic Council to confer the honorary degrees, titles or other academic distinctions and forward its decision to the Chancellor; (xiv) to constitute, administer, maintain and regulate the working of the centres for student’s Training and Placement, publications and information, Sponsored Research and Consultancy, Intellectual Property Rights, Continuing Education and such other innovative activities; (xv) to delegate such of its powers, functions and duties to the Vice Chancellor as may be prescribed by the statutes, ordinances and regulations; (xvi) to select a common seal for the University and to provide for its custody and use; (xvii) to arrange for the conduct of litigation by or against the University; and (xviii) to frame, enact, amend or repeal the statutes, ordinances and regulations. (3) To exercise such other powers and perform such other functions and duties as may be conferred or imposed upon it by this Act, schedule, statutes, ordinances and regulations: Provided that, nothing contained in sub-section (2) shall be deemed to confer on the Executive Council the power to revise the pay scales of any of the employees or to grant any allowances or emoluments to them.