Dhirubhai Ambani Institute Of Information And Communication Technology Act, 2008
No: 30 Dated: Jan, 01 2009
THE DHIRUBHAI AMBANI INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2008
West Bengal Act XXX of 2008
An Act to provide for the establishment of the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, West Bengal by law and to confer the status of a University thereon and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the establishment of the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, West Bengal by law and to confer the status of a University thereon and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto;
It is hereby enacted in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Republic of India, by the Legislature of West Bengal, as follows:—
1. Short title and commencement:- (1) This Act may be called the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology Act, 2008.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Definitions:- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) "Academic Council" means the Academic Council of the Institute constituted under section 14;
(b) "Board" means the Board of Governors of the Institute constituted under section 10;
(c) "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Board specified under section 10;
(d) "Deans" means the Deans of the Institute appointed under section 21;
(e) "Director" means the Director of the Institute appointed under section 18;
(f) "Executive Registrar" means Executive Registrar of the Institute appointed under section 20;
(g) "Finance Committee" means Finance Committee of the Institute constituted under section 16;
(h) "Foundation" or "Trust" means the Dhirubhai Ambani Memorial Trust, Mumbai;
(i) "Institute" or "University" means the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, West Bengal, a University established under section 3;
(j) "Patron Trustee" means the Patron Trustee of the Dhirubhai Ambani Memorial Trust, Mumbai;
(k) "President" means the President of the Institute appointed under section 7;
(l) "prescribed" means prescribed by the regulations;
(m) "regulations" means the regulations of the Institute made under this Act.
3. Establishment and incorporation of the University:- (1) There shall be established a University by the name of "the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, West Bengal".
(2) The President, the Board, the Academic Council, the Director, the Dean, the Executive Registrar and all other persons who may hereafter become officers or members so long as they continue to hold such office or membership, shall constitute a body corporate by the name of the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, West Bengal.
(3) The Institute shall function as a non-affiliatirig University which shall not affiliate to itself any other college or institute.
(4) The Institute shall not have any grant-in-aid or other financial assistance from the Central Government, any State Government, University Grants Commission, All India Council for Technical Education or any other authority or institutions of the Central Government or any State Government.
(5) Five per centum of seats may be kept reserved for poor and meritorious students for admission in the Institute, to enable them to study in the institution without paying tuition fees and other charges subject to their qualifying for admission through All India Engineering Entrance Examination.
(6) The Institute shall be a body corporate ty the name specified in subsection (2) having perpetual succession and common seal with power, subject to the provisions of this Act, to acquire and hold property, to contract and shall, by the said name, sue and be sued.
(7) In all suits and other legal proceedings by or against the Institute, the pleadings shall be signed and verified by the Executive Registrar and all processes in such suits and proceedings shall be issued to, and served on the Executive Registrar.
(8) The headquarter of the Institute shall be at Haringhata, post office Mohanpur in the district of Nadia or at such place as may be decided by the Board.