Section 60. Powers and duties of Board of Research.

The Board of Research shall have the following powers and duties, namely :- (a) to work on long term policy and strategy for promotion of research culture in the university, colleges and recognized institutions; (b) to advise and encourage the teachers to take up research in emerging areas at individual and group level; (c) to promote inter-disciplinary research programmes by co-ordinating amongst teachers and also to make and articulate policies for sharing of research and development infrastructure; (d) to encourage the university departments, colleges and recognized institutions to hold research seminars in all disciplines for the research students; (e) to publish research journals, monographs for different disciplines; (f) to decide upon policy for maintenance of standards of research for Ph.D. degrees, in consonance with the norms of the University Grants Commission and other regulatory bodies; (g) to work on creation of research and development data base for work done in university departments, colleges and recognized institutions in a stand-alone mode or as group activity or in collaboration with industries and other research and development laboratories; (h) to work out and initiate research in delivery of education, pedagogy of face-to-face and e-learning, impact of e-learning and virtual classrooms on learning and understanding of students, open distance learning and conventional education; (i) to make efforts and also assist the teachers, university departments, colleges and recognized institutions to raise the funds for research activities; (j) to work out the budget for research activities of the university; (k) to mobilize money from the industry for enhancing research activities; (l) to identify problems and issues related to the region within the jurisdiction of the university and to take special initiative to address such issues through systematic research; (m) to work on long-term policies and strategies for creating synergy between researchers and industries resulting into promotion of knowledge and technology transfer and productive conversion of research; (n) to encourage industries to promote, adopt and participate in the basic and applied research projects; (o) to establish central research laboratories with the help of participation of national and international industries; (p) to undertake any other task as may be assigned by the university authorities so as to carry out objectives of the Board of Research.