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The University shall have the following powers, :- (a) To make education arrangements in all subjects pertaining to Technical Education, Management, Higher Education, Law Education, Social Science, General Science; Journalism and to provide for the promotion and dissemination of research and knowledge; (b) To carry out all such activities as may be necessary or feasible for achieving the objects of the University; (c) To hold examinations for, and to institute grant and confer degrees or other academic distinctions to, and on, persons, who- (i) Have pursued a course of study in the University or in a distance education system; or (ii) Have carried on research in the University or under its distance education system. (d) To confer honorary degree or other academic distinctions in the manner and under condition laid down in the Statutes/provisions; (e) To award fellowships, scholarships, and prizes etc. in accordance with the Statutes; (f) To demand and receive such fee, bills and invoices and collect charges as may be fixed by the Statutes or rules, as the case may be; (g) To make provisions for the advancement of education in Technical Education, Higher Education, Law Education, Social Science, General Science; Journalism and other areas 6 mentioned in Section 9; (h) To provide other extracurricular activities for students and employees apart from education; (i) To make appointment of faculty, officers and employees in the University; (j) To receive donations and gifts of any kind and to acquire, hold, manage maintain and dispose of any movable and immovable property, including trust and endowment properties for the purpose of the University with the prior permission of Sponsor Trust. (k) To establish and maintain halls and to decide places of residence for students of the University; (l) To supervise and control the residence, and regulate the discipline among the students and all categories of employees and to lay down the conditions of service of such employees, including their Code of Conduct; (m) To create the necessary posts of the employees in the administrative, management and other sectors; (n) To co-operate or collaborate with other Universities in such a manner and for such purposes as the university may determine from time to time. (o) To provide distance education system and the manner in which distance education in relation to the academic programs of the University may be organized as per procedure and norms prescribed by University Grants Commission and other concerned Statutory/Regulatory body; (p) To organize and conduct refresher courses, orientation courses, workshops, seminars, and other programs for teachers, lesson writers, evaluators and other academic staff; (q) To determine standards of admissions to the University through specialized committees with the approval of Academic Council; (r) To make special provision for students belonging to the state of Uttarakhand for admission in any course of the University; (s) To do all such other acts whether incidental to the powers aforesaid or not, as may be necessary to pursue the objectives of the University; (t) To prescribe courses for Bachelor Degree, Post Graduate and Research and to start the courses for diploma, certificates etc; (u) To clearly set apart Academic Activities of the University from the activities the sponsor trust; (v) To make arrangements for the preparation of instructional materials, including films, cassettes, tapes, video cassettes, CD, VCD and other software’s; 7 (w) To recognize examinations, or periods of study (full or partial) at, other universities, Institutions or other places of higher learning as equivalent to examination or periods of study in the University and to withdraw such recognition at any time; (x) To raise, collect, accept and get loan with the approval of the Board of Governors, with or without the security of property of the University for the purpose of the University; (y) To enter into, carry out, vary or cease contracts; Access to all classes, castes, creed, and gender in the university