Gujarat Public Universities Act, 2023
to supervise, control and regulate admission of students for various courses of study in university departments, schools, multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary schools, community, conducted and affiliated/constituent colleges, institutions and recognised institutions; (17) to guide teaching in colleges by deputation of teachers from a pool of teachers of the university and supplement teaching in colleges for improving their standards; (18) to institute degrees and post-graduate diplomas and post-higher secondary diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions on the basis of examinations or by other tests; (19) to hold examinations or evaluations and confer degrees and post-graduate diplomas and award post-higher secondary diplomas and certificates and other academic distinctions on persons who,— (a) unless exempted therefrom in the manner prescribed, have pursued approved courses of study in the university, or in a college or in an institution or a recognised institution or a school and have passed the examinations and earned the required credits or marks or grades prescribed by the university; or (b) have pursued approved courses of study in the university, or in a college or in an institution or a recognised institution or in an autonomous college or an autonomous recognised institution or in empowered autonomous college or empowered autonomous cluster institutions or a school and have passed the examinations and earned the required credits or marks or grades prescribed by the university; or (c) have engaged in research under conditions provided by Ordinances and Regulations; (20) to confer and award such degrees, diplomas and certificates to, and provide for such lectures, instruction and training for external students, and the students under correspondence and distance education, online and continuing education courses; (21) to confer honorary degrees or other academic distinctions as prescribed by the Statutes; (22) to lay down the conditions of affiliation of colleges and recognition of institutions taking into account the credibility of the management and the norms of academic performance of colleges, faculties and subjects, as may be laid down, from time to time, and satisfy itself by periodical assessment or otherwise, that those conditions are fulfilled; (23) to admit to the privileges of the university, affiliated/constituent colleges and institutions not maintained by the university and withdraw all or any of those privileges, temporarily or permanently; (24) to designate a university department, conducted college, an affiliated/constituent college, institution or school as an autonomous university department, conducted college, affiliated/constituent college or institution or school, as the case may be, in accordance with the guidelines, if any, laid down by the State Government or University Grants Commission (UGC); (25) to designate a conducted college, an affiliated/constituent college, institution or school as an empowered conducted college, affiliated/constituent college or institution or school, in a stand-alone or cluster form, as the case may be, in accordance with the guidelines, if any, laid down by the State Government or the University Grants Commission (UGC); (26) to monitor and evaluate the academic performance of university departments, university institutions, conducted colleges and of affiliated/constituent colleges, autonomous or empowered colleges in a stand-alone or cluster form and recognised institutions for affiliation or recognition, as the case may be, for periodical State, National and World accreditations/ rankings; (27) to inspect, where necessary, all types of colleges or institutions and recognised institutions through suitable machinery established for the purpose, and take measures to ensure that proper standards of instruction, teaching, learning, training and research, and extension are maintained by them and adequate library, class rooms, laboratory, hostel, workshop and other academic facilities are provided for; (28) to hold and to manage trusts and endowments and to institute and award fellowship, travelling fellowship, scholarship, studentship, medals and prizes for teachers and students of the university and colleges; (29) to fix, demand and receive or recover such fees and other charges, as may be regulated by the Ordinances, from time to time; (30) to supervise, control and regulate the conduct and discipline of the students of the university, colleges, institutions, recognised institutions, schools and hostels; (31) to provide for mobility of students from formal to non-formal stream and vice-versa, and also among the other universities in the State and outside the State; (32) to provide facilities for revision or in-service courses for teachers of the university, colleges, schools and institutions; (33) to make arrangements for promoting the healthy atmosphere, corporate life and welfare of the students of the university, colleges, schools and institutions; (34) to make arrangements for promoting welfare of the employees of the university; (35) to co-ordinate and regulate teaching, learning, training and research and extension in the colleges and recognised institutions; (36) to provide for the training and education in the domain of quality, intensive workshops or learning exercises on enhancing quality and also mechanism for setting up of internal quality assurance for quality improvement of teachers and non-teaching employees; (37) to provide for periodical assessment of the performance of teachers and non-teaching employees in the colleges, institutions and university in accordance with the norms prescribed by the University Grants Commission (UGC) or the State Government; (38) to regulate and provide for attendance of the teachers on the premises of the university or colleges or institutions during teaching hours and beyond teaching hours, as prescribed and to prohibit teachers from taking or conducting private tuitions or private coaching classes; (39) to regulate and provide for attendance of the non-teaching employees on the premises of the university or colleges or institutions during working hours and beyond working hours, as prescribed; (40) to enforce conduct and discipline rules for teachers and non-teaching employees prescribed by the State Government; (41) to prescribe code of conduct for managements; (42) to prescribe and enforce students charter; (43) to establish, maintain and manage, whenever necessary, — (a) university extension boards; (b) information bureaus; (c) employment guidance bureaus; (d) Autonomous Evaluation Boards; and (e) such other activities as may be necessary and possible to fulfill the objects of the university; (44) to make provision for participation of students with necessary incentives in, — (a) the national service scheme; (b) the national cadet corps; (c) home guards and civil defense; (d) the national sports organisation; (e) physical and military training; (f) extra-mural teaching and research; (g) programme related to Lifelong Learning and Extension; (h) any other programme, services or activities directed towards cultural, economic and social betterment as may be necessary and possible, to fulfill the objects of the university by the State Government or / and the Government of India; (45) to provide for special training or coaching for competitive examinations, for recruitment to the public services, public sector undertakings and other competitive employment opportunities; (46) to arrange periodical employment programme and to provide internship; (47) to co-operate or collaborate with any other university, institution, authority or organisation for research and advisory services and for such purposes to enter into appropriate arrangement with other universities, institutions, authorities, or organisations to conduct certain courses as the situation may demand; (48) to rescind or suspend affiliation or recognition or empowered status granted to colleges or institutions or cluster of institutions; (49) to borrow funds for the purposes of the university on the security of the property of the university, with the prior permission of the State Government; (50) to explore the possibilities of augmenting the resources of the university by exploring or innovating activities such as research and development, consultancy, training programme and providing services for different clients from industry, trade or any other non-government organisations; (51) to transfer the management of an affiliated/constituent college, institution or autonomous college or empowered autonomous college or cluster of institutions in case where irregularities or commissions or omissions of criminal nature by the management of such college or institution or mismanagement of such college or institution are prima-facie evident, to any other management, following proper legal procedure and with prior approval of the State Government; (52) to undertake academic collaboration programme, research and advisory services with universities and institutions abroad, with the prior approval of the State and the Central Government; (53) to receive funds for collaborative programme from foreign agencies, subject to rules and regulations of the Central Government and the State Government in that behalf; (54) to create development corpus out of surplus that the university may generate through its teaching, learning, training, research, emerging technology, startup, innovations and development, consultancy and any other academic and support activities and to invest it in a professional manner and use the interest generated through it for the growth and development of academic, research and development, academic and physical infrastructure development and any other infrastructure; (55) to lay down for teachers and university teachers, such instructions or directions as, in the opinion of the university, may be necessary in academic matters; (56) to undertake development programme in higher education, research, consultancy based projects and training programme for outside agencies, by charging fees, so as to generate resources; (57) to make special provisions for the benefit of university education to be made available to classes and communities which are socially and educationally backward; (58) to make special provisions for such benefits of university education to be made available for women students and differently-abled students as the university may think necessary; (59) to make special provisions for higher education in rural and tribal areas; (60) to take appropriate measures in order to increase the gross enrolment ratio; (61) to implement the national literacy and adult education programme through teachers and students on voluntary basis in the university system and to evolve measures to give due weightage to the efforts and performance of the students in this area in addition to their normal academic performance and also to evaluate the performance of the teachers in this area; (62) to promote by itself, or in co-operation with other universities, the study of Gujarati and the use of Gujarati as a medium of instruction, study, research and examination, in adherence to the policies of the State Government; (63) to promote by itself, or in co-operation with other universities or organisations, the study of regional, national and foreign languages in general and Asian languages in particular; (64) to evolve an operational scheme for ensuring accountability of teachers, non-vocation academic and non-teaching staff of the university, institutions and colleges; (65) to provide for joint appointments in single grade of pay in more than one department or administrative section in the university, as also between university departments and between the university-public or university-private or university public-private partnership research laboratories or university-industry or university-other bodies; (66) to create knowledge and disseminate it and foster high quality research which is contemporary, globally competitive and locally as well as regionally and nationally relevant; (67) to have a learner-centric approach and perform the role of being a knowledge creator; (68) to strengthen education at under-graduate and post-graduate level, enhance research develop culture and relevant degree programme and cultivate desire for entrepreneurship; (69) to create a comprehensive digital university framework for both, e-learning and e-administrative services; (70) to exploit the power of 'learning by collaboration' and 'participation' with use of information and communication technology; (71) to cultivate research parks, technology incubators and other engagement entities to translate university research to commercial domain and coordinated projects involving multiple faculty groups from several disciplines that address some important issues before the State; (72) to identify skills to which students need to be exposed to, by taking into account the local needs, training facilities available, emerging needs and new employment opportunities; (73) to provide an environment for the all-round development of youth by exposing them to the rich cultural heritage of the country and creating opportunities for development of skills in sports; (74) to facilitate mobility of teachers to collaborating institutions such as industries, research and development laboratories, non-Government organisations, engaged in societal development, to enable translation of knowledge to viable real life applications and in turn enrich university programme; (75) Oversea Educational Campuses (a) to establish centres or institutions in foreign countries with the permission of the Central and the State Government; (b) to establish centres / departments or institutions of foreign countries within University campus with the prior permission of the regulatory bodies, the Central Government and the State Government; (76) to establish vocational or skill based community colleges in partnership with industry; (77) to comply with and carry out any directives issued by the State Government, from time to time, with reference to above powers, duties and responsibilities of the university; (78) to conduct academic audit of university departments, conducted colleges, affiliated/constituent colleges, institutions or schools, at regular intervals; (79) to do all such other acts and things as may be necessary for, or incidental or conducive to, the attainment of all or any of its objects.