State Act

THE COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACT, 1986

7. University open to all classes and creeds.—(1) No person shall, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, descent, place of birth, residence, language, political opinion or any of them, be ineligible for, or discriminated against, in respect of any employment or office under the University or membership of any of the authorities or bodies of the University or admission to any course of study or research in the University: Provided that the University may, in consultation with the Government, reserve seats for the members of socially and educationally backward classes or Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes for the purpose of admission as students in any of the institutions of the University or Recognised Institutions. [ (2) 1 In making appointments to the teaching and non-teaching posts, the University shall, mutatis mutandis, observe the provisions of clauses (a), (b) and (c) of rule 14 and the provisions of rules 15, 16, 17 and 17A of the Kerala State and Subordinate Services Rules, 1958, as amended from time to time, and communal rotation shall be followed category-wise treating all the departments as one unit.]