Chapter II — ESTABLISHMENT OF CORRESPONDING UNIVERSITIES

Section 9Powers of a corresponding University

Section 9: Powers of a corresponding University

9. Powers of a corresponding University

Each corresponding University shall have the following powers, namely:—

(a)

to provide for graduate and post-graduate instructions in agriculture, veterinary and animal sciences, agricultural engineering, home sciences and other allied sciences and in such other branches of learning as the University may deem fit;

(b)

to make provision for instructions in applied fields, research and the dissemination of the findings of research and technical information through an extension education programme;

(c)

to institute degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions;

(d)

to hold examinations and to grant and confer degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions to and on persons who shall have—

(i)

pursued a prescribed course of study; or

(ii)

carried out research in the University, or in an institution recognised in this behalf by the University, under the prescribed conditions;

(e)

to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the prescribed manner and under the prescribed conditions;

(f)

to provide lectures and instructions for field workers, village leaders and other persons not enrolled as regular students of the University and to grant certificates to them when deemed desirable;

(g)

to co-operate with other Universities and authorities in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine;

(h)

to institute teaching, research and extension education posts required by the University and to appoint persons to such posts;

(i)

to create administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointments thereto;

(j)

to institute and award fellowships, scholarships and prizes in accordance with the Statutes;

(k)

to institute and maintain residential accommodation for students of the University;

(l)

to supervise and control the residential accommodation and to regulate the discipline of the students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health and welfare;

(m)

to institute and receive such fees and other charges as may prescribed; and

(n)

to do all such acts and things, whether incidental to the powers aforesaid or not, as may be requisite in order to further the objects of the University.