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Subject to the provisions of this Act, the powers and duties of the Board shall be as follows, namely :- ( a ) to advice the Governing Council and Government on matters of policy relating to diploma level art education in general and on the following matters, in particular, namely :- ( i ) co-ordination between national policies and State policies of diploma level art education; ( ii ) co-ordination between secondary, higher secondary, degree education and diploma level art education; ( iii ) to maintain uniform standards of diploma in art education; ( iv ) to promote industry and institute interaction; (b) to lay down guiding principles for determining curricula and syllabi and also to prepare the detailed curricula and syllabi for diploma level art education for all categories of courses such as, regular, sandwich, part-time course, yearly, semester pattern and the like; ( c ) to prescribe and regulate standard requirements in respect of staff, buildings, furniture, equipment, stationery and other things required for diploma level art institutes; ( d ) to prescribe and develop any book as text book and reference book or to prepare or cause to be prepared any book and print or non-print material or to publish directly or in collaboration with any other agency, any kind of learning material for diploma level art courses; ( e ) to prescribe the general conditions governing admission of regular candidates to the examinations and to specify the conditions relating to eligibility, attendance, term-work and character, on the fulfilment of which a candidate shall have a right to be admitted to and to appear at any such examination; ( f ) to award certificates to candidates passing the diploma final examination or any other examination conducted by the Board; ( g ) to institute and to award scholarships, fellowships, stipends, medals, prizes and other rewards and also to prescribe conditions therefor; ( h ) to receive bequests, donations, endowments, trusts and other transfers of any property, or interest therein, or right thereto; ( i ) to hold any property, interest or right referred to in clause (h) above, and to manage and deal with the same; ( j ) to fix, demand and receive such fees and penalties as may be prescribed; ( k ) to call for special reports and information from the regional offices of the Board and to call for any information from any diploma level art institutes, recognized by the Board to ensure maintenance and improvement in academic standards in diploma level art education; ( l ) to recommend measures to promote physical, moral and social welfare of students in institutes recognized by the Board and to prescribe conditions of their residence and discipline; ( m ) to approve the annual financial statement pertaining to the Board and to recommend to the Governing Council for sanctioning the annual budget; ( n ) to inspect and supervise generally the working of the Regional Offices and to inspect periodically the accounts thereof; ( o ) to conduct statistical and other research or training programs for the purposes of design, development, implementation of the curriculum, teaching learning process and examination in collaboration with any agency; ( p ) to appoint such Committees as it may think necessary for the efficient discharge of its functions under this Act; ( q ) to make regulations for the purposes of carrying out effectively the provisions of this Act; ( r ) to make bye-laws relating to matters such as procedure to be followed by the Board, its committees and any other matter solely concerning the Board and it's Committees that are not provided for by or under this Act and the regulations made thereunder; ( s ) to exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as may be conferred or imposed on it by or under this Act; ( t ) to make regulations with the approval of the Governing Council for granting of academic autonomy to institutes, reviewing or revoking of autonomy granted; ( u ) to carry out all such acts as may be necessary to achieve the objectives of this Act so as to improve, extend, expand the diploma level art education in the State and to maintain and improve standards of diploma level art education; ( v ) to make regulations for granting affiliation, accreditation, autonomous status, equivalence, eligibility to art institute and reviewing or revoking affiliation or accreditation or equivalence, or autonomous status or eligibility; ( w ) to demand and receive such fees as may be prescribed for affiliation, accreditation, conferring autonomy, equivalence; ( x ) to conduct the examinations of the Board; ( y ) to appoint paper-setters, examiners, moderators, supervisors and other necessary personnel for conducting examinations, assessment of candidates, performance and for compiling and release of results; ( z ) to admit candidates for the examinations according to the regulations; ( za ) to open centres within its jurisdiction for examination conducted by it; (zb) to declare the result of the candidates appearing at the examinations conducted on such date or dates as may be fixed; ( zc ) to prepare a list of candidates according to merit; ( zd ) to deal with cases of use of unfair means according to the procedure laid down; ( ze ) to evaluate generally the performance of students and institutes in all examinations including the final examination in diploma level art institutes; ( zf ) to call for special reports and information from the concerned Committee constituted for that purpose, regarding the recognized institute not maintaining the required academic standards and to recommend to the Government, withdrawal of recognition granted to such institute under the administrative order of the Higher and Technical Education Department of the Government, in cases of poor academic results and grave academic irregularities; ( zg ) to require institutes recognized by the Government to extend their co-operation in the conduct of the examinations and to withdraw the privileges by the Board from any institute, which fails to place at its disposal the facilities required to conduct examinations after giving it a reasonable opportunity of showing cause why such orders should not be made; ( zh ) to create, own, hold or hire any property or infrastructure required for functioning of the Board office or functioning of regional offices; ( zi ) to plan and monitor academic performance; ( zj ) to propose the need-based courses, special courses for self-employment, courses for rural, deprived persons and women; ( zk ) to propose to confer autonomy to deserving institutes; ( zl ) to upgrade Government institutes as model institute or centre of excellence considering past performance of such institute; ( zm ) to provide for regulation of fixation of fee and collection thereof, for affiliated courses by the affiliated institutes and the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.