Section 5. Powers of the University

The University shall have the following powers, namely :— (a) to provide for instructions in all branches of learning and to make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge ; (b) to institute and confer degrees or other academic distinctions; (c) to hold examinations for and to grant and confer degrees or other academic distinctions to and on, persons, who — (i) have pursued a course of study in the University or in a constituent college or under a distance education, or (ii) have carried on research in the University or in a constituent college or under a distance education ; (d) to confer honorary degree or other academic distinctions in the manner and under conditions laid down in the Statutes ; (e) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, studentships, exhibitions and prizes in accordance with the Statutes ; (f) to demand and receive such fees and charges as may be fixed by the Statutes or the Ordinances, as the case may be ; (g) to make provisions for the advancement of education in information Technology and allied fields ; (h) to make provisions for extracurricular activities for students and employees ; (i) to make appointments of officers and employees of the University or a constituent college ; (j) to receive benefactions, donations and gifts and to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of any movable or immovable property, including trust and endowment properties for the purposes of the University or a constituent college ; (k) to institute and maintain halls and to recognize places of residence for students of the University or a constituent college ; (l) to supervise and control the residence and to regulate the discipline, of the students of the University or a constituent college and to make arrangements for promoting their health ; (m) to create administrative ministerial and other necessary posts ; (n) to co-operate or collaborate with other University in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine from time to time ; (o) to provide distance education ; (p) to organise and conduct refresher courses, orientation courses, workshops, seminars and other programmes for teachers, evaluators and other academic staff ; (q) to determine standards of admission to the University or a constituent college ; (r) to lay down conditions of service of all categories of employees of the University or a constituent college ; (s) to borrow upon the security of the property of the University for the purposes of the University or a constituent college ; and (t) to do all such other acts or things, whether incidental to the powers aforesaid or not, as may be necessary to further the objects of the University.