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C.U. Shah University First Statutes 2013
C.U. Shah University First Statutes 2013
Sections
4. Objects of University.
Section 45. Powers and functions of University.
Section 56. University open to all irrespective of sex, religion, class, creed, or opinion.
Section 67. Officers of University.
Section 78. President.
Section 89. Provost.
Section 910. Registrar.
Section 1011. Chief Finance & Accounts Officer.
Section 1112. Other officers.
Section 1213. Authorities of University.
Section 1314. Governing Body.
Section 1415. Board of Management.
Section 1516. Academic Council.
Section 1617. Disqualifications.
Section 1718. Vacancies not to invalidate the constitution or, the proceedings of any authority or body of University.
Section 1819. Committees.
Section 1920. Powers of State Government to give directions.
Section 2021. Admission and fee structure.
Section 2122. Convocation.
Section 2223. Accreditation of University.
Section 2324. University to follow rules, regulations, norms, etc of regulating bodies.
Section 2425. Endowment Fund.
Section 2526. General Fund.
Section 2627. Application of General Fund.
Section 2728. Annual Report.
Section 2829. Annual Accounts and Audit.
Section 2930. Management of University on dissolution of Sponsoring Body.
Section 3031. Dissolution of University.
Section 3132. Special powers of State Government in certain circumstances.
Section 3233. Power of State Government to make rules.
Section 3334. Completion of courses of students.
Section 3435. Powers to remove difficulties.
Section 3536. Removal of difficulties at the commencement.
Section 3637. Transitory provisions.
Section 3738. Indemnity.
Section 38
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"content": "(a) to provide for instruction, teaching and training in the University in the field of higher education and make provisions for research, advancement and dissemination of knowledge;\n(b) to establish, maintain, and manage institutions, and centres of excellence, to create, organise, preserve and disseminate knowledge in the fields of sciences, technology, humanities, social sciences, education, management commerce, law, pharmacy, health care and any other field and to provide research, higher education, professional education, distance learning and e-learning facilities of high order, as per their current status or as they may develop in future;\n(c) to develop infrastructure for research, higher education, professional education, teaching, training extension and outreach, including continuing education, distance learning and e-learning, to create capabilities for upgrading infrastructure to global standards;\n(d) to offer the academic programmes of the University through distance education, online education, correspondence and any other mode matching with the environmental developments such as technology need, after obtaining appropriate approvals from the regulatory bodies;\n(e) to set up off-campus centres, study centres and examination centres within the State, subject to the permission of the regulatory bodies under any law made by the Parliament and any regulation, rules, etc. made by the regulating bodies;\n(f) to create higher levels of intellectual abilities;\n(g) to establish state of the art facilities for education and training;\n(h) to carry out teaching and research and offer continuing education programmes;\n(i) to create centres of excellence for research and development, and for sharing knowledge and its application;\n(j) to provide consultancy to the industry and public organizations;\n(k) to establish main campus or infrastructure in the State of Gujarat necessary for the furtherance of its objects;\n(l) to establish examination centres;\n(m) to confer degrees, diplomas, grant certificates and other academic distinctions on the basis of examination or any other method of evaluation subject to the guidelines of the UGC,.\n(n) to develop training facilities in the field of higher education;\n(o) to provide for arrangement for national and global participation in the field of higher education;\n(p) to develop educational programmes for certificates, diplomas, degrees and postgraduate courses, doctorate degrees and postdoctoral programmes and to maintain a high standard of education to collaborate with national and global institutions, to offer programmes and to create capabilities for upgrading programmes to the global standards subject to the guidelines of the UGC;\n(q) to ensure that the standard of the degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions are not lower than those laid down by AICTE, NCTE, UGC, PCI and any other similar agency established by the Central Government for regulating the standard education;\n(r) to establish close linkage with the industry, business,- educational institutions and other sections of the society to make teaching, research, training, documentation, publication, use of various media and outreach activities at the University relevant to the needs of the University and society, at national and international level;\n(s) to pursue any other objectives as maybe approved by the State Government:",
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"content": "(i) to administer and manage the University; establish, administer and manage its constituent colleges and centres for research, education, training, extension and outreach including continuing education, distance learning and e-learning at its campus within the State of Gujarat;\n(ii) to provide for research, higher education, professional education, teaching, training, extension and outreach including continuing education, distance learning and e-learning in the fields of science, technology, humanities, social sciences, education, management commerce, law, pharmacy, health care and any other fields;\n(iii) to conduct innovative experiments in educational technologies, teaching and learning methods, to collaborate with national and international institutions and to offer joint programmes with such institutes to constantly improve the delivery of education and to achieve international standards of education;\n(iv) to prescribe courses, curricula and methodologies including electronic and distance learning and provide for flexibility in the delivery of education;\n(v) to hold examinations and confer degrees, diplomas or grant certificates and other academic distinctions or titles on persons subject to such condition as the University may determine and to withdraw or cancel any such degrees, diplomas or certificates and other academic distinctions or titles in the manner prescribed by the Regulations;\n(vi) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner prescribed by the Statutes;\n(vii) to establish schools, centres, institutes, colleges and conduct the programmes and courses of study as are in the opinion of the University, necessary for the furtherance of its objects;\n(viii) to declare as a constituent college, any college, centre institution imparting education as are in the opinion of the University, necessary for the furtherance of its objects or to establish a new constituent college, centre institution for the purpose;\n(ix) to provide for printing, publication and reproduction of research, educational material and other works and to organize exhibitions, conferences, workshops and seminars;\n(x) to establish knowledge resource centre;\n(xi) to sponsor and undertake research and educational programmes in the fields of science, technology, humanities, social sciences, education, management, commerce, law, pharmacy, health care and any other allied areas;\n(xii) to collaborate or associate with any educational institution with like or similar objects;\n(xiii) to establish campuses including virtual campus for the purpose of achieving the objectives of the University;\n(xiv) to undertake research and to obtain registration in respect of such research in the nature of patents, design rights and such or similar rights with the competent authorities.\n(xv) to maintain linkages and collaborate with educational or other institutions in any part of the world having objects wholly or partially similar to those of the University, through exchange of students, researchers, faculty and staff and generally in such manner as may be conducive to their common objects;\n(xvi) to render services of research, training, consultancy and such other services as required for the purposes of the University;\n(xvii) to develop and maintain relationships with faculty researches, administrators and domain experts in science, technology, humanities, social sciences, education, management, law, commerce, pharmacy, health care and allied area for achieving the objects of the University;\n(xviii) to regulate the expenditure and to manage the finances and to maintain the accounts of the University;\n(xix) to receive funds, movable and immovable properties, equipment software and other resources from business, industry, other sections of society, national and international organizations or any other source by transfers or as gifts, donations, benefactions or bequests for the purposes and objects of the University;\n(xx) to establish, maintain and manage halls, hostels for students and quarters for the residence of faculty and staff;\n(xxi) to construct, manage and maintain centres, complexes, auditorium, buildings, stadium for the advancement of sports, cultural co-curricular and extra-curricular activities;\n(xxii) to supervise and control the residence and regulate the discipline of students, faculty and staff of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health, general welfare, social and cultural activities;\n(xxiii) to fix, demand and receive or recover fees and such other charges as may be prescribed by the Statutes;\n(xxiv) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, prizes, medals and other awards;\n(xxv) to purchase or to take on lease or accept as gifts, bequests, legacies or otherwise any land or building or works which may be necessary or convenient for the purpose of the University and on such terms and conditions as it may think fit and proper and to construct or alter and maintain any such buildings or works;\n(xxvi) to sell, exchange, lease or otherwise dispose-off all or any portion of the properties of the University, movable or immovable, on such terms as it may think fit and consistent with the interest, activities and objects of the University;\n(xxvii) to draw and accept, to make and endorse, to discount and negotiate promissory notes, bills -of exchange, cheques and other negotiable instruments;\n(xxviii) to raise and borrow money on bond, mortgages, promissory notes or other obligations or securities founded or based upon all or any of the properties and assets of the University or without any securities and upon such terms and conditions as it may think fit and to payout of the funds of the University, all expenses incidental to the raising of money, and to repay and redeem any money borrowed;\n(xxix) to invest the funds of the University in or upon such securities and transpose any investment from time to time in such manner as it may deem fit in the interest of the University;\n(xxx) to execute conveyances regarding transfers, mortgages, leases, licenses, agreements, and other conveyances in respect of property, movable or immovable including Government securities belonging to the University or to be acquired for the purpose of the University;\n(xxxi) to admit students for the courses offered by the University in the manner prescribed by the Ordinances;\n(xxxii) to create academic, technical, administrative, ministerial and other posts prescribing qualifications by the Ordinances and to make appointments thereto;\n(xxxiii) to regulate and enforce discipline among the students, employees of the University and to provide for such disciplinary measures as may be prescribed by the Regulations;\n(xxxiv) to institute professorships, associate professorships, assistant professorships, readerships, lectureships, and any other teaching, academic or research posts and to prescribe by the Statutes, the qualifications for the persons to be appointed on such posts;\n(xxxv) to appoint qualified persons as professors, associate professors, assistant professors, readers, lecturers or as teachers and researchers or other officer of the University;\n(xxxvi) to co-operate with other Universities, and acquire membership of bodies, authorities, or associations, which may have been formed for the advancement of learning, science or research, or for the dissemination of knowledge or for the physical and moral welfare of students, in such manner and for such purpose as the University may determine by Statutes;\n(xxxvii) to delegate all or any of its powers (except the power to make regulations) to any officer or authority of the University, and;\n(xxxviii) to do all such acts and things as the University may consider necessary conducive or incidental to the attainment or enlargement of all or any of the objects of the University.",
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"content": "(a) to call for any information or record;\n(b) to appoint the Provost;\n(c) to remove the Provost in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (6) of section 09;\n(d) Such other powers as may be prescribed by the Statutes; and he/she is empowered to take the decisions from time to time in the interest of the University for the matters not included so far in the statutes;",
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"content": "(a) The Governing Body;\n(b) The Board of Management;\n(c) The Academic Council; and\n(d) such other authorities as may be declared by the Statutes or decided by the Governing Body in the interest of the University to be the authorities of the University.",
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"content": "(a) Those members who are from time to time the trustees of the sponsoring body (the Vardhman Bharti Trust Wadhwan City, District Surendranagar)\n(b) Secretary to the Govt, of Gujarat, Higher Education, Gandhinagar as an Ex Officio .\n(a) to provide general superintendence and directions and to control functioning of the University by using all such powers as are provided by this Statutes made there under;\n(b) to review the decisions of other authorities of the University in case they are not in conformity with the provisions of this Statutes made there under;\n(c) to approve the budget and annual report of the University;\n(d) to lay down the extensive policies to be followed by the University;\n(e) to recommend to the sponsoring body about the voluntary liquidation of the University; and\n(f) such other powers as may be prescribed by the Statute as and when necessity has arisen.",
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"content": "(a) the President;\n(b) the Provost,\n(c) two members of the Governing Body, to be nominated by the Sponsoring Body;\n(d) two persons, who are not the members of the Governing Body, to be nominated by the Sponsoring Body;\n(e) three persons from amongst the faculty members of the University, to be nominated by the Sponsoring Body; and\n(f) one faculty member, to be nominated by the President.",
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"title": "17. Disqualifications.",
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"content": "(a) He/she is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court;\n(b) He/she is an undercharged insolvent;\n(c) He/she has been convicted of any offence involving moral turpitude;\n(d) He/she is conducting or engaging himself in private coaching with or without pecuniary gain; or\n(e) He/she has been punished for indulging in or promoting unfair practice in the conduct of any examination, in any form, anywhere.",
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"content": "Chapter VI\nRegulation of University",
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"number": "20",
"title": "20. Powers of State Government to give directions.",
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"title": "22. Convocation.",
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"number": "23",
"title": "23. Accreditation of University.",
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"number": "24",
"title": "24. University to follow rules, regulations, norms, etc of regulating bodies.",
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"content": "Chapter VII\nFunds of University",
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"number": "25",
"title": "25. Endowment Fund.",
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"title": "26. General Fund.",
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"content": "(a) Fees and other charges received by the University;\n(b) Any contributions made by the sponsoring body;\n(c) Any income received from consultancy and other work undertaken by the University in pursuance of its objectives;\n(d) Trusts, bequests, donations, endowments and any other grants; and\n(e) All other sums received by the University.",
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"title": "27. Application of General Fund.",
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"content": "(a) For the repayment of debts including interest charges thereto incurred by the University for the purposes of this Statutes, the Ordinances, the Regulations, and the Rules made there under with the prior approval of the Governing Body;\n(b) To upkeep the assets of the University;\n(c) For the payment of the fee for audit of the funds created under Secs. 25 and 26;\n(d) To meet with expenses of any suit or proceedings by or against the University;\n(e) For the payment of salaries, allowances, provident fund contributions, gratuity and other benefits to officers, employees and members of the teaching and research staff;\n(f) For the payment of travelling and other allowances of the members of the Governing Body, the Board of Management the Academic Council, other authorities and the members of any committee appointed by any of the authority or the Chairperson of the sponsoring body or the Provost;\n(g) For the payment of fellowships, free ships, scholarships, assistant ships and other awards to the students belonging to economically weaker sections of the society or research associates, trainees or, as the case may be, to any student otherwise eligible for such awards under the Statutes;\n(h) For the payment of any expenses incurred by the University in carrying out the provisions of this Statutes;\n(i) For the payment of cost of capital, not exceeding the prime lending rate from time to time of any Nationalised Bank of India, incurred by the Sponsoring Body for setting up the University and the investments made thereof;\n(j) For the payment of charges and expenditure relating to the consultancy work undertaken by the University in pursuance of the provisions of this Statutes made there under;\n(k) For the payment of any other expenses including service fee payable to any organisation charged with the responsibility of providing any specific service, including the managerial services to the University, on behalf of the sponsoring body, as approved by the Governing Body / Board of Management to be an expense for the purposes of the University:\nChapter VIII\nAccounts, Audit and Annual Report",
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"content": "Chapter IX\nWinding Up of University",
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"title": "32. Special powers of State Government in certain circumstances.",
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"content": "(a) Summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath;\n(b) Requiring the discovery and production of any such document or any other material as may be predicable in evidence;\n(c) Requisitioning any public record from any court or office.\nChapter X\nMiscellaneous",
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"title": "33. Power of State Government to make rules.",
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"content": "(a) the manner of making proposal to establish University and the fees payable;\n(b) other particulars of the Project Report;\n(c) other matters of the Statute;\n(d) arrangements for the administration of the University on the dissolution of the Sponsoring Body under sub-section (2) of section 31.",
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"content": "(1) The Provost may, with the prior approval of the President and subject to availability of funds, discharge all or any of the functions of the University for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Statutes and for that purpose may exercise any power or perform any duties which by this Statutes are to be exercised or performed by any authority of the University until such authority comes into existence as provided by this Statutes;\n(2) The Board functioning as such immediately before the commencement of this Statutes shall continue to so function until the Board is constituted for the University under this Statutes, but on the constitution of the Board under this Statutes, the Members of the Board holding office before such constitution shall cease to hold office;\n(3) The Academic Council of the University functioning as such immediately before the commencement of this Statutes shall continue to so function until the Academic Council is constituted for the University under this Statutes, but on the constitutions of the Academic Council under this Statutes, the members of the Academic Council holding office before such constitutions shall cease to hold office;\n(4) The Finance Committee of the University functioning as such immediately before the commencement of this Statutes shall continue to so function until the Finance Committee is constituted for the University under this Statutes, but on the constitutions of the Finance Committee under this Statutes, the members of the Finance Committee holding office before such constitutions shall cease to hold office;\n(5) Until the first Regulations of the University are made under this statutes, the existing rules and regulations of the Vardhman Bharti Trust the sponsoring body, as approved by the Board as in force immediately before the commencement of this statutes, shall continue to apply to the University, in so far as they are not inconsistent with provisions of this statutes.",
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"Act Number": "Published vide Notification No. GH/SH/65/FSU/2013/1260/KH-1, dated 6.12.2013",
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"Act Year": "2013",
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