Powers and duties of the University.
The University shall have following
powers and duties, namely:-
(a) to institute teaching, training and research in such branches of medicine, health
and dentistry as the University may think fit, and to make provisions for
evidence and research based up-dation, conducting research and dissemination
of such knowledge;
(b) to institute and award degrees, diplomas, certificates, fellowships and other
academic distinctions;
(c) to admit, register and enrol students to the course of studies of the University
and conduct examinations or test and lay down conditions and protocols in
respect thereof;
(d) to hold examinations for and to grant and confer degrees, diplomas, certificate
courses and other academic distinctions to and on persons, who-
(i) have pursued a course of study in the University, constituent or affiliated
colleges; or
(ii) have carried on research in the University, constituent or affiliated colleges;
(e) to confer honorary degree or other academic directions in the manner and under
conditions laid down in the statutes;
(f) to grant such diplomas, to provide such lectures and instruction for, persons, not
being students of the University, as the University may determine;
(g) to cooperate or collaborate with other Universities and authorities in such a
manner and for such purposes, as the University may determine;
(h) to institute and award scholarship, fellowship (including travelling fellowship),
studentship, stipend, medals and prizes in accordance with the statutes and
ordinances;
(i) to recognize for the purposes of admission to a course of study for a degree or
diploma, as equivalent to its own degree , any degree or diploma conferred by
any other University;
(j) to establish, maintain, develop and administer institutes of research, hospitals,
laboratories, libraries, or other facilities necessary to carry out the objects of the
University;
(k) to establish, maintain, develop and administer hostels and residential places of
students and teachers;
(l) to fix and collect fees and other charges in accordance with the Ordinances;
(m) to supervise and control the residents and to regulate the disciplines of the
students of the University and to make arrangements for the promotion of their
health;
(n) to create teaching, administrative, ministerial and other administrative posts
required by the University and to make appointments thereto;
(o) to undertake publication work, research and merit;
(p) to provide management, treatment and rehabilitation services to the patients in
its hospitals;
(q) to recognize and decide course curriculum, protocols, examination pattern,
resources required in terms of manpower, equipments and infrastructure of any
course of study for degree, diploma, certificate course, fellowship and other
academic distinctions;
(r) to provide affiliation and charge fee from the institutions granting course of
study for degree, diploma, certificate course, fellowship and other academic
institutions; and
(s) to do all such acts and things whether incidental to the powers aforesaid or not ,
as may be required in order to further the objects of the University.