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(1) There shall be established a University in the name of “Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology” by issue of notification by the Government and it shall be a non-affiliating Unitary University. (2) The headquarters of the University shall be at Burla in Sambalpur District of Orissa. (3) The University shall be a body corporate by the name of Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology and such body corporate shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued by that name. (4) The jurisdiction of the University shall extend over all that is presently comprised of University College of Engineering, Burla to be recognized, restructured and renamed in a notification to be issued by the Government under sub-section (1) and to all schools of studies and Departments to be established by the University with prior permission of the Government. (5) Subject to the provisions of this Act and the Statutes, the University shall be competent to acquire and hold property both movable and immovable, to lease, sell or otherwise transfer any movable or immovable property, which may have become vested in, or may have been acquired by, it for the purposes of the University and to contract and do all other things necessary for the purposes of this Act.