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The Shree Somnath Sanskrit University Act, 2005
The Shree Somnath Sanskrit University Act, 2005
Sections
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Establishment and incorporation of a University.
Section 34. Objects of the University.
Section 45. Powers and functions of the University.
Section 56. University open to all irrespective of sex, religion, class, creed or opinion.
Section 67. Teaching in the University.
Section 78. Inspection and inquiry.
Section 89. Officers of the University.
Section 910. Chancellor.
Section 1011. Vice-Chancellor.
Section 1112. Appointment of Vice-Chancellor.
Section 1213. Powers and duties of Vice-Chancellor.
Section 1314. Registrar, his powers and functions.
Section 1415. Director (Research).
Section 1516. University Librarian.
Section 1617. Finance and Accounts Officer, his powers and functions.
Section 1718. Manner of appointment of Registrar, Director (Research) University Librarian, Finance and Accounts Officer.
Section 1819. Authorities of the University.
Section 1920. Executive Council.
Section 2021. Powers and duties of Executive Council.
Section 2122. Academic Council.
Section 2223. Powers and duties of Academic Council.
Section 2324. Faculties.
Section 2425. Powers and Duties of Faculty.
Section 2526. Deans of Faculties.
Section 2627. Finance and Accounts Committee and its functions.
Section 2728. University Fund.
Section 2829. Annual accounts, audit and financial estimates.
Section 2930. Annual report.
Section 3031. Conditions of service.
Section 3132. Provisions relating to disciplinary actions for officers and employees of the University.
Section 3233. Returns and information.
Section 3334. Power of State Government to issue directions.
Section 3435. Acts and proceedings not to be invalidated by vacancies.
Section 3536. Protection of action taken in good faith.
Section 3637. Officers and employees to be public servants.
Section 3738. Power of State Government to remove difficulties.
Section 3839. Filling up of casual vacancies.
Section 3940. Filling up of casual vacancies of Registrar, Director (Research), University Librarian or Finance and Accounts Officer.
Section 4041. Pension, insurance and provident fund.
Section 4142. Pension, insurance and provident fund of staff of colleges, etc.
Section 4243. Provident fund to be deposited in Government treasury.
Section 4344. Committees.
Section 4445. Qualifications for enrolment of students of the University.
Section 4546. Residence of students.
Section 4647. Degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions.
Section 4748. Honorary degrees.
Section 4849. Withdrawal of degree or diploma.
Section 4950. Affiliation.
Section 5051. Recognition of institutions of research and specialised studies.
Section 5152. Approval of institutions.
Section 5253. Inspection of colleges and institutions and report.
Section 5354. Affiliated colleges and approved institutions to comply with provisions pertaining to medium of instruction and other matters and withdrawal of recognition.
Section 5455. Withdrawal of affiliation or recognition.
Section 5556. Withdrawal of approval.
Section 5657. Regulations.
Section 5758. Appointment of first Vice-Chancellor.
Section 5859. Appointment of the first Registrar.
Section 5960. Transitory powers of first Vice-Chancellor.
Section 6061. First appointment of officers of the University.
Section 6162. Extraordinary powers of first Vice-Chancellor.
Section 62
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"content": "(a) to rejuvenate cherish and disseminate the universal values knowledge, wisdom and vision presented in Sanskrit language and literature and establish a progressive synthesis between ancient Indian wisdom and modern scientific thought in harmony with the needs of present and future;\n(b) to extend the benefits of knowledge and skills for the development of individuals and society by promoting the study of Sanskrit and cognate discipline;\n(c) to encourage, develop and foster the ideals and values enshrined in the Vedic study and Sanskrit literature and Shastras in the Sanskrit and other ancient languages and to bring these ideals and values in harmony with the needs of present and future generation and project a progressive synthesis in the light of the insights contained in the Sanskrit and other ancient languages;\n(d) to encourage, promote and conduct a system of education relevant to the studies of the Sanskrit literature with special emphasis on,-\n(i) the traditional relationship between the teacher and the taught ( Guru-Shishya Parampara );\n(ii) methods of studies and experimentation in which discipline (anushashan) and self-study (swadhyaya) are fundamental components; and\n(iii) development of faculties, not only of empirical and rational knowledge but also of higher modes of consciousness;\n(e) to create and develop facilities for the integral development of personality of students under an atmosphere conducive to the fostering of capacities and values of physical, vital, mental, moral, scientific, atheistic and spiritual growth;\n(f) to provide facilities for teachers and students for learning-teaching processes so that individual attention to students is provided and objectives of scholarship and excellence are promoted;\n(g) to provide facilities for the study and practice of the traditional Vedic system of recitation from the early stage of education and to provide environment and facilities under which foundations of Sanskrit studies can be established among the young learners;\n(h) to develop and conduct teaching methodologies, practicable Sanskrit pedagogy for the benefit of educational innovations;\n(i) to provide facilities and programmes of studies centered on the cultural heritage of India leading to a harmonious synthesis of the East and the West;\n(j) to develop special courses of study of Sanskrit and to apprise of the major contribution of the Sanskrit in the maintenance of the emotional integration of the nation and to conduct special courses of study and to undertake activities therefor;\n(k) to organise and conduct expositions, exhibitions and extension programmes related to the themes expounded in the Veda-Vedanga literature and other related literature for generating new thoughts and ideology in that context;\n(l) to provide facilities for studies and research in Indian classical languages;\n(m) to promote interaction and co-ordination among Sanskrit Pathashalas , to make the study or traditional type of Sanskrit teaching-learning, more purposeful, and to effect a fusion between traditional and modern systems of Sanskrit education;\n(n) to establish special chair for the prosecution of studies in the Sanskrit and its literature and allied branches of the knowledge (Vidya Sakha) in Sanskrit;\n(o) to institute career-oriented courses through continuing education-correspondence and distance education;\n(p) to establish the research centres and discover in the ancient Sanskrit literature, the existence of the principles, ideology which are propounded and contained in the humanities and modern sciences such as Physics, Chemistry, Medical Science, Bio-Medical, Surgical and related subjects and which aim at linking the past with the present and enables the nation to meet the challenges of the future;\n(q) to prepare and conduct special courses to integrate the Ayurveda with modern medicine the Vastu Shastra with modern architecture the Arthashastra with modern economics and political science, the Vyakarana with modern grammar and linguistics;\n(r) to establish the schools for languages and literature philosophy, veda-vedanga , Shikshaka-Prashikshana, Dharma Shastra and such other schools as may be declared to be schools under the regulations.",
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"content": "(a) to provide for instruction including correspondence courses teaching and training in such branches of learning and courses of study as it may think fit;\n(b) to make provisions for research in Sanskrit, post-graduate courses, conduct special and under-graduate courses, advancement and dissemination of knowledge;\n(c) to promote national integration and nourish cultural heritage;\n(d) to establish maintain and manage University colleges, schools, departments and institutes of research or specialised studies;\n(e) to sanction affiliation, recognition and approval to the colleges, institutions and Pathashalas respectively;\n(f) to withdraw of modify affiliation, recognition or approval of educational institutions;\n(g) to organise language laboratories, libraries, museums and other equipments for teaching and to promote research;\n(h) to institute professorships, leaderships, lectureships and other posts of teachers required by the University;\n(i) to lay down the course of instructions for the various examinations;\n(j) to institute degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions and titles;\n(k) to hold examinations or tests and confer degrees and diplomas on, and grant certificates to persons who-\n(i) have pursued approved courses of study in the University or an affiliated colleges unless exempted therefrom in such manner as may be prescribed and have passed the examinations or tests prescribed by the University; or\n(ii) carry out research on such conditions as may be prescribed;\n(l) to confer honorary degrees or other academic distinctions in such manner as may be prescribed;\n(m) to withdraw or cancel any degree, diploma or certificate conferred or granted by the University in such manner as may be prescribed;\n(n) to associate or admit educational institutions with or to the privileges of the University by way of affiliation, recognition or approval;\n(o) to grant such diplomas and certificates to, and to provide such lectures, instructions and training to persons who are not enrolled as students of the University on such conditions as may be prescribed;\n(p) to organise and conduct conferences debates, discussions, seminars, symposia, workshops, refresher courses and such other programmes at national and international level in furtherance of the objects of the University;\n(q) to maintain archives, libraries, information centres, data bank, museums and such other institutions which are useful for the furtherance of the objects of the University;\n(r) to collect, conserve, edit and publish ancient manuscripts, to conserve materials of archaeological values and importance and to reproduce the valuable works of the Sanskrit;\n(s) to accept donations, grants, gifts or to borrow money from the Central Government any State Government or from any individual association or body corporate:\n(t) to institute, hold and manage endowments for the promotion of Sanskrit and to give financial and other assistance to deserving institutions or individuals engaged in the dissemination of Sanskrit learning and to institute and award fellowships, scholarships and prizes in accordance with the Regulations for the promotion and propagation of Sanskrit;\n(u) to give financial and other assistance to institutions or individuals for the publication of literature through printing and electronic media which are conducive to the furtherance of the objects of the University;\n(v) to inspect colleges, recognised and approved institutions and to take measures to ensure that proper standards of instruction, teaching and training are maintained in them and that adequate library and laboratory provisions are made therein;\n(w) to lay down and regulate the salary scales, allowances and other conditions of service of the members of the teaching, other academic and non-teaching staff in the affiliated colleges, University colleges and recognised and approved institutions as per the rules of and guideline issued by the University Grants Commission;\n(x) to control and co-ordinate the activities of and to give financial aid to, University colleges and University Departments;\n(y) to regulate the fees to be paid by the students in affiliated colleges, recognised and approved institutions;\n(z) to institute and award fellowship, travelling fellowships, scholarships, studentships, medals, prizes and other awards;\n(aa) to take disciplinary action against the teachers and students of the University and to impose such punishment upon them as may be deemed fit for the breach of discipline or misconduct within or outside the University including the use of unfair means at an examination or in relation thereto by themselves or by any other persons or abetment thereof;\n(bb) to conduct, co-ordinate, supervise, regulate and control post-graduate teaching and research work in the University Departments and affiliated colleges and recognised and approved institutions;\n(cc) to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of any property movable and immovable including trust or endowed property within or outside the University and to invest any funds representing such property in such manner as the University thinks fit under the intimation to the State Government;\n(dd) to institute and manage,-\n(i) Printing and Publication Department,\n(ii) Information Bureau, and\n(iii) Distance Education Department; 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"content": "(i) one shall be nominated by the Chancellor who shall be an expert from academics in the field of Indology;\n(ii) one shall be the scholar in the field of Sanskrit and ancient literature nominated by the Vice-Chancellor of the Universities established by law in the State;\n(iii) one shall be an expert in the field of Sanskrit and its literature nominated by the Executive Council and the Academic Council jointly in such manner as may be prescribed by the Regulations.\n(b) The State Government may nominate one of the members as the Chairman of the said Committee.\n(c) A person nominated on the Committee shall not be eligible to accept an appointment on any post honorary or otherwise or nomination on any of the authorities or bodies of the University for a period of two years from the date of such nomination.\n(b) The State Government may accept the recommendation of the committee or seek a fresh recommendation from the same committee or require the committee to make change in its members or reconstitute the committee.\n(c) If the person so appointed as the Vice-Chancellor happens to be a member or an office bearer of any political party or any trade union or staff association or such other bodies or holds the office in any statutory public body or of a body of local self-Government he has to tender his resignation therefrom under an intimation to the Chancellor and the State Government before accepting the appointment.\n(b) In the event of resignation or a permanent vacancy in the office of the Vice-Chancellor until an appointment is made under sub-section (3) of this section to that office.\n(c) The State Government shall nominate the Director (Research) or one of the Deans of the Faculties as the Vice-Chancellor for the purpose of carrying out the current duties of the office of the Vice-Chancellor.",
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"content": "(b) When action taken by the Vice-Chancellor under this sub-section affects any person in the service of the University such person shall be entitled to prefer an appeal through the said authority or body to the Executive Council within fifteen days from the date on which such action is communicated to him.\n(b) After making such inspection or inquiry the Vice-Chancellor may take such action as he thinks fit in consultation with the Executive Council.",
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"content": "(b) The Finance and Accounts Officer shall be the principal finance officer of the University. He shall be a full time salaried officer and shall work directly under the control of the Vice-Chancellor.\n(i) exercise general supervision over the funds of the University and advise the Vice-Chancellor as regards the finances of the University;\n(ii) hold and manage the funds, property and investments including trust and endowed property for furthering any of the objects of the University;\n(iii) ensure that the limits fixed by the University for recurring and nonrecurring expenditure for a year are not exceeded, and that all allocations are expended for the purposes for which they are granted or allotted;\n(iv) keep watch on the state of the cash and bank balances and of investments;\n(v) keep watch on the progress of collection of revenue and advice the Vice-Chancellor on the methods to be employed for collection;\n(vi) have the accounts of the University audited regularly;\n(vii) ensure that the registers of buildings, land, equipments and machinery are maintained in order and that the stock taking of equipments and other consumable materials in all offices colleges, workshops and stores of the University is conducted regularly;\n(viii) call for from any office, centre, laboratory, college or department of the University or University institution, any information and returns that he thinks necessary for the proper discharge of his financial responsibilities; and\n(ix) exercise such other powers, perform such other duties and discharge such other financial functions as are assigned to him by the Vice-Chancellor from time to time.",
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"title": "18. Manner of appointment of Registrar, Director (Research) University Librarian, Finance and Accounts Officer.",
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"content": "(i) The appointment to the post of the Registrar, the Director (Research) and the University Librarian shall be made by direct selection on the basis of the guidelines of the University Grants Commission and the appointment of the Finance and Accounts Officer shall be made either by direct selection or by deputation of an officer from the State Government in accordance with the rules for the time being in force.\n(ii) The State Government shall constitute a Selection Committee consisting of the following members namely:-\n(a) the Vice-Chancellor who shall be the Chairman,\n(b) an officer nominated by the State Government, and\n(c) four persons having knowledge and experience in the subjects related to the officer to be selected, nominated by the Vice-Chancellor,\n(d) one member shall be nominated by the Executive Council.\n(iii) The Selection Committee shall not select a person for appointment unless at least two out of four persons referred to in sub-clause (c) of clause (ii) are present at the time of the process of selection by the committee.\n(iv) The person selected by the committee shall be appointed after obtaining concurrence from the State Government.\n(v) The qualifications and emoluments to be paid to the officers referred to in clause (i) shall be such as recommended by the University Grants Commission in the case of the Registrar, the University Librarian and in the case of the Director (Research) and the Finance and Accounts Officer shall be such as approved by the State Government from time to time.\nChapter IV\nAuthorities of the University",
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"content": "(i) the Executive Council,\n(ii) the Academic Council,\n(iii) the Faculties,\n(iv) the Finance and Accounts Committee,\n(v) such other Boards and bodies of the University as may be declared by the regulations to be authorities of the University.",
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"content": "(i) the Vice-Chancellor- ex-officio , the Chairman;\n(ii) the Secretary to Government, Education Department Government of Gujarat, ex-officio ;\n(iii) the Commissioner of Higher Education, Gujarat State or an officer not below the rank of the Joint Director of Higher Education nominated by the Commissioner, ex-officio ;\n(iv) two eminent persons to be nominated by the Chancellor from amongst persons who have made significant contribution in the filed of Sanskrit and its literatures;\n(v) two distinguished scholars to be nominated by the State Government from amongst persons who have made significant contribution in the field of Sanskrit and its literature;\n(vi) one Dean of the Faculty nominated by the Vice-Chancellor from amongst the Dens of Faculties by rotation in such manner as may be prescribed;\n(vii) one of the principal of the colleges nominated by the Vice-Chancellor amongst the principals of the colleges in such manner as may be prescribed.",
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"content": "(i) to hold, control and administer the property and funds of the University;\n(ii) to enter into; vary, carry out or cancel contracts on behalf of the University;\n(iii) to determine the form and provide for the custody and regulate the use of the common seal of the University;\n(iv) to pass the annual financial estimates of the University;\n(v) to sanction re-appropriation of grant or fund from one head to another head, limited to twenty-five per cent of the total allocation made under the concerned heads;\n(vi) to accept on behalf of the University trusts, endowments, bequests, donations and transfer of any movable or immovable property to the University;\n(vii) to manage and regulate the Finances, accounts and investments of the University;\n(viii) to fix, demand and receive such fees and other charges as may be prescribed by the regulations in accordance with the guidelines prescribed by the State Government;\n(ix) to create post of teachers, other employees and officers other than Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor and to lay down and regulate pay-scales allowances and conditions of service of such teaching, non-teaching staff and other employees and officers;\n(x) to borrow with the approval of the State Government whether on the security of the property of the University or otherwise moneys for the purposes of the University;\n(xi) to acquire and hold property both movable and immovable and to sanction the transfer, lease and mortgage, sale or disposal of the same under the intimation to the State Government;\n(xii) to cause an inspection or an inquiry to be made in respect of any matter concerning the conduct, working and finance of colleges, institutions or departments of the University;\n(xiii) to regulate and provide for attendance of the teachers on the premises of the University or colleges or institutions during teaching hours and beyond teaching hours and to prohibit teachers from taking or conducting private tuition or private 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conduct and for publishing the results of the University examinations and other tests;\n(xx) to make provisions for instruction, teaching and training in such branches of learning and courses of study as it may think fit, for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge;\n(xxi) to make such provisions which enable affiliated or recognised or approved institutions to undertake specialisation in studies;\n(xxii) to organise and make provisions for language laboratories, libraries, achievers, museums and other equipments for teaching and research;\n(xxiii) to establish, manage and maintain departments, colleges schools, institutions of higher learning and institutions of research and specialised studies, library and hostels;\n(xxiv) to institute and confer titles, diplomas and other academic distinctions and to recommend for and conferment of honorary degrees and academic distinctions in such manner as may be prescribed;\n(xxv) to make, amend or repeal the regulations;\n(xxvi) to make provisions relating to the use of Sanskrit, Gujarat and English languages as the media of instruction and examination;\n(xxvii) to assess the feasibility of and take decision on proposals for affiliation of a college or a recognition or approval of institution, a University department or a University college entitling it to privileges in the matters or admission of students prescribing the courses of study imparting instruction, teaching and training in the courses of study the holding and conduct of examination and power to make necessary rules for the purpose and withdrawal thereof;\n(xxviii) to assess the feasibility of proposals received from the Academic Council for new academic programmes and courses and approve diplomas, degrees, certificates and other academic distinctions;\n(xxix) to arrange for, and to direct, the inspection of affiliated colleges, recognised institutions, approved institutions and hostels, to issue instructions for maintaining their efficiency and for ensuring proper conditions of employment for members of their staff, and in case of disregard of such instruction to modify the conditions of their affiliation or recognition or to take such other steps as deemed proper;\n(xxx) to supervise and control the residence, conduct and discipline of the students of the college, University departments and recognised and approved institutions and arrangements for promoting their health and the general welfare and disciplinary action against the students;\n(xxxi) to recommend to the State Government for the withdrawal or reduction of grant to a college which makes default in carrying out the conditions of affiliations;\n(xxxii) to recognise a member of the staff of an affiliated college or recognised institution or approved institution as a professor, a reader, a lecturer or a teacher of the University and withdraw such recognition;\n(xxxiii) to exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as may be conferred or imposed on it by this Act or under the regulations;\n(xxxiv) to exercise all powers of the University not otherwise provided for in this Act or Regulations and all other powers which are required to give effect to the provisions of this Act or the Regulations.",
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"content": "(a) any contribution or grant by the State Government, the Central Government, or the University Grants Commission;\n(b) the income of the University from all sources including income from fees and charges;\n(c) loans, gifts, donations, endowments, benefactions, bequests and other grants, if any, or transfers;\n(d) any sum borrowed from the banks with the permission of the State Government;\n(e) all moneys received by the University in any other manner or from any source.",
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"number": "33",
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"number": "35",
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"number": "36",
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"content": "(i) the subscriber to the fund shall be entitled to interest on the balance in his provident fund account at the same rate at which the state Government servant is for the time being entitled to on the balance in his provident fund account, and\n(ii) the rules for the time being in force relating to the limits of with drawls from the provident fund as applicable to such Government servant shall, so far as may be, apply to the subscriber.\nChapter VII\nCommittees",
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"content": "(i) the Higher Secondary School Certificate Examination conducted by the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board in such subjects and with such standards of attainment as may be prescribed, or\n(ii) the entrance examination, if any which, may be instituted by the University with the consent of the State Government and held in such subjects and in such manner as may be prescribed, or\n(iii) the Madhyama in Sanskrit (equivalent to Higher Secondary School Certificate) conducted by the Gujarat State Examination Board, or\n(iv) any other examination prescribed as equivalent to the examinations referred to in clauses (i) and (iii), and possess such further qualifications, if any, as may be prescribed by the Regulations:",
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"number": "49",
"title": "49. Withdrawal of degree or diploma.",
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"number": "51",
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"content": "(a) the rights conferred on such college or institution by the affiliation, recognition, or approval shall stand withdrawn from the date of such contravention; and\n(b) such college or institution shall cease to be an affiliated college or recognised or approved institution for the purposes of this Act.",
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"content": "(i) conferment of honorary degrees,\n(ii) holding of convocations to confer degrees,\n(iii) powers and duties of the officer of the University,\n(iv) constitution, powers and duties of the authorities of the University, save as provided in this Act,\n(v) institution and maintenance by the University Departments, institutes of research or specialised studies, post-graduate centres in affiliated colleges and hostels,\n(vi) acceptance and management of bequests, donations and endowments,\n(vii) registration of graduates and maintenance of register of registered graduates,\n(viii) procedure at meetings of the authorities of the University and for the transaction of their business,\n(ix) qualifications of professors, readers, lecturers and teachers in affiliated colleges and recognised and approved institutions,\n(x) the maximum number of students to be admitted in a college,\n(xi) suitable and adequate physical facilities, such as buildings, laboratories, library, books, equipments required for teaching and research, hostels,\n(xii) all matters which by this Act are to be or may be prescribed by the Regulations,\n(xiii) conditions under which students shall be admitted to courses of studies for degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions,\n(xiv) conditions governing the appointment and the duties of examiners,\n(xv) conduct of examinations,\n(xvi) recognition of teachers of the University,\n(xvii) conditions of residence, conduct and discipline of the students of the University,\n(xviii) recognition of hostels,\n(xix) inspection of affiliated colleges, recognised institutions approved institutions and hostels,\n(xx) rules to be observed and enforced by colleges and recognized institutions and approved institutions in respect of transfer of students,\n(xjy) mode of execution of contracts or agreements for or on behalf of the University, and\n(xxii) generally all matters for which provision is in the opinion of the Executive Council necessary for the exercise of the powers conferred or the performance of the duties imposed upon the Executive Council by this Act or the Regulations.\nChapter XI\nTransitory Provisions",
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"content": "(a) any officer of the University may be appointed by the Vice-Chancellor with the previous sanction of the Chancellor,\n(b) till the Executive Council is constituted, the teachers of the University may be appointed by the Advisory Committee referred to in sub-section (2) of Section 60 with the approval of the Chancellor on the recommendation of the Selection Committee consisting of the following persons namely:-\n(i) the Vice-Chancellor,\n(ii) a nominee of the Chancellor,\n(iii) three persons who are experts in the field of Sanskrit and its literature to be appointed out of a panel of experts drawn by the Advisory Committee.",
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"number": "62",
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"content": "(a) with the previous approval of the Chancellor to make additional Regulations to provide for any matter not provided for by the first Regulations;\n(b) to constitute provisional authorities and bodies and on their recommendations to make regulations providing for the conduct of the work of the University;\n(c) subject to the control of the State Government to make such financial arrangements as may be necessary to enable this Act, or any part thereof, to be brought into force;\n(d) with the sanction of the Chancellor to make for a period not exceeding three years such appointments as may be necessary to enable this Act or any part thereof to be brought into force;\n(e) to appoint any committee as he may think fit, to discharge such of its functions as he may direct; and\n(f) generally to exercise all or any of the powers conferred on the Executive Council by or under the provisions of this Act.",
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