State Act

The Burdwan University Act, 1959

This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by the Burdwan University Act, 1981 (West Bengal Act XXIII of 1981), s.57(9); it may still apply to matters that began before then.

4. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the University shall have the following powers, namely :— (1) to provide for instruction and training in such branches of learning as it may think fit and to make provisions for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge; (2) to establish, maintain or manage colleges, libraries, museums and such other institutions as it may consider fit ; (3) to recognise any college as a constituent college and to withdraw such recognition ; (4) to affiliate to itself any college and to withdraw affiliation from any affiliated college; (5) to institute degrees, titles, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions ; (6) to hold examinations and to confer degrees, titles, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions on persons who— (a) shall, unless exempted therefrom in such manner as may be prescribed by Statutes, have pursued in an affiliated or constituent college or in the University such courses of study and shall have passed such examinations of the University as may be prescribed by Ordinances, or (b) shall have carried on research under such conditions as may be prescribed by Ordinances; (7) to confer honorary degrees or other academic distinctions under such conditions as may be prescribed; (8) to co-operate with other Universities and other authorities in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine; (9) to institute and make appointments to professorships, assistant professorships, readerships, Teacherships of the University, lecturerships or any other teaching posts ; (10) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, exhibitions, prizes, medals and other honours and distinctions ; (11) to prescribe, demand and receive fees, fines and other charges; (12) to establish, maintain and manage hostels and other places of residence for the students of the University, to recognise such hostels and other places and to withdraw recognition therefrom; (13) to provide for the supervision and control of the residence and discipline of the students of the University and to make arrangements for promotion of their health and general welfare ; (14) to conduct, co-ordinate, regulate and control the post-graduate research work and teaching in the University, the constituent and affiliated colleges and the institutions recognised by the University; (15) to define the powers and duties of the officers of the University other than the Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor ; (16) to provide for the inspection, or investigation into the affairs, of a college or of any other institution referred to in clause (2); (17) to create such administrative, ministerial or other posts under the University as it may deem fit and to make appointments thereto ; (18) to receive grants, donations, endowments and bequests and to raise loans ; (19) to make grants and advances; (20) to enter into contracts; (21) to acquire, hold and dispose of property, movable or immovable, for furthering any of the objects of the University; (22) to make grants for the maintenance of the National Cadet Corps; and (23) to do all other acts and things, whether incidental to the powers aforesaid or not, as may be necessary for furthering the objects of the University and for promoting arts, science and other branches of learning.