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(1) The objects of the University shall be to disseminate and advance Objects. knowledge by providing instructional and research facilities in such branches of learning as it may deem fit and by the example of its corporate life, and, in particular, to make special provisions for studies in tribal life and culture and for integrated courses of Humanities and Science in the educational programmes of the University and take appropriate measures for promoting inter-disciplinary studies and research in the University. Being the highest and noblest seat of learning, the University shall provide effective leadership in guiding education and promoting research work in various fields and shall also endeavour to promote study of vocational subjects with a view to providing employment opportunities to the students. (2) The University shall be open to person of either sex of whatever race, creed, caste or class and it shall not be lawful for the University to adopt or impose on any person any test whatsoever of religious to adopt or impose on any person any test whatsoever of religious belief or profession in order to entitle him to be admitted therein as a teacher or student or to hold any office therein or to graduate thereat ; Provided that nothing in this Section shall be deemed to prevent the University from making special provisions for the weaker sections of the people, and, in particular, for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Power of the 5. The University shall have the following powers namely :- University. (1) to encourage and provide for instruction and training in such branches of learning and courses of study including Anthropology and Sociology as it may think fit, to make provision for research and to promote the advancement and dissemination of knowledge and learning and the extension of higher education : (2) to establish and develop specialised research centres, interdisci- plinary centres or similar institutions for studies and to undertake research in tribal problems, rural development, plantation, forestry, fishery, agriculture and horticulture ; (3) to organise specialised diploma, degree or post-graduate courses, as the case may be, in such subjects as tribal languages, habitat and customs, rural administration, public administration, policy planning, forestry, floriculture pesticides, wild life management, pisciculture, and also in subjects like rural and urban planning, manpower planning, regional resources planning and development, ecology and environmental studies, agricultural and rural industries and in such other subjects as may be necessary from time to time ; (4) to organise short courses at the Post-Master or Arts or post- aster of Science stage for those who are otherwise suitable for teaching the non-traditional courses mentioned in clause (3) ; (5) to make such academic studies as may contribute to the improvement of economic conditions and welfare of the people in general and the tribal people in particular ; (6) to establish, maintain or manage colleges, libraries, laboratories, museums and such other institutions as it may consider fit ; (7) to recognise any college or institution as a constituent college or a professional college and to withdraw such recognition in respect of any such college or institution ; Provided that the provisions of this clause shall not debar other colleges from introducing both Honours and Pass courses ; (8) to affiliate to itself any college, institution or Centre and to withdraw affiliation of such college, institution or centre ; (9) to institute degrees, titles, diplomas, certificates, and other academic distinctions on person who- (a) shall, unless exempted therefrom in such manner as may be prescribed by Statutes, have pursued in an affiliated or constituent college or in the University or in an institution or centre recognised by the University such courses of study and shall have passed such examination of the University as may be prescribed, or (b) shall have carried on research under conditions as may be prescribed ; (10) to confer honorary degrees or other academic distinctions under such conditions as may be prescribed ; (1 1) to co-operate with other Universities and edu~ational authorities in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine ; (12) to institute and to make appointment to professorship, Readership, Lecturership and other teaching posts required by the University in accordance with regulation notified by the University Grants Commission with regard to minimum qualifications ; (1 3$ to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, exhibitions, prizes, medals and other honours and distinctions ; (14) to prescribe demand and receive fees, fines and other charges ; (15) to establish, maintain and manage hostels, halls and other places of residence for the students of the University and teachers, officers and other employees and to recognize such hostels, halls and other places of residence and to withdraw recognition therefrom ; (16) to provide for the supervision and control of residence and discipline of students of the University and to make arrangements for promotion of their health and general welfare ; (17) to provide for supervision, control and discipline of the teaching and non-teaching employees of the University in pursuance of the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations ; (18) to conduct, co-ordinate, regulate and control the post-graduate research work and teaching in the University ; (19) to prescribe the powers and duties of officers of the University ; (20) to provide for the inspection, or investigation into the affairs, of a college or an institution recognized by the University ; (21) to create and to make appointment to such administrative, clerical and other posts under the University as it may deem fit ; (22) to accept grants from the Central or any State Government or the University Grants Commission and, with the approval of State Government from other sources ; (23) to raise loans or to accept loans from the Central or the State Government and with the approval of State Government, from other sources ; (24) to enter into contracts and agreements with the approval of the Syndicate in furtherance of the objects of the University ; (25) to acquire, hold and dispose of properties, movable and immovable, for furthering any of the objects of the University ; (26) to make grants for the maintenance of the National Cadet Corps and the National Social Service ; (27) generally to do all such acts and things as may be necessary or desirable for, or incidental to the advancement of the objects or purposes of the University ; (28) (a) Notwithstanding anythmg contained in the preceding provisions, the University may grant in the manner prescribed, to a college which satisfies the conditions prescribed in this behalf, the privileges of varying, for the students receiving instructions in such college, the courses of study prescribed by the University and holding examinations in the courses so varied. (b) Such a college shall be declared in the manner prescribed an autonomous college. (29) To recognise an Institution of higher learning or a laboratory or institutions of similar nature for such purposes as the University may determine and to withdraw such recognition.