State Act

The Kalyani University Act, 1960

This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by the Kalyani University Act, 1981 (West Bengal Act 40 of 1981); it may still apply to matters that began before then.

2. In this Act, unless the context requires otherwise,— (a) “agriculture” includes the basic and applied sciences relating to crop and livestock production, soil and water management and all matters connected therewith or incidental thereto; (b) “college” means a constituent college which has been established or recognized as such by the University under this Act; (c) “Minister” means the Minister in charge of the Department of Education, Government of West Bengal; (d) “prescribed” means prescribed by Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations or Rules made under this Act; (e) “Principal” means the head of a college by whatever designation he may be described; (f) “Statutes”, “Ordinances”, “Regulations” and “Rules” mean respectively the Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations and Rules made under this Act; (g) “Teacher” means a person appointed as such by the University or a college, either whole time or part time, for the purpose of imparting instruction or conducting and guiding research or experimental work and includes a professor, assistant professor, reader, lecturer and any other person holding a teaching post and also a person who may be declared by the Statutes to be a Teacher; (h) “University” means the University of Kalyani constituted under this Act; and (i) “year” means a period of twelve months beginning on the first day of June.