Dibrugarh University Act, 1965
No: 8 Dated: Jun, 04 1965
Amendment:- Dibrugarh University (Amendment) Act, 2013
THE DIBRUGARH UNIVERSITY ACT, 1965
ASSAM ACT VIII OF 1965
An Act to establish and constitute a teaching residential and affiliating University at Dibrugarh
Preamble. - Where it is expedient to establish and constitute a teaching, residential and affiliating University of Dibrugarh ;
It is hereby enacted in the Sixteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows :
1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Dibrugarh University Act, 1965.
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force with effect from the 25th March, 1971.
2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant to the Subject or context-
(1) "Affiliated College" means a college other than a constituent or recognised college, affiliated to the University and includes a college deemed to be affiliated under Section 5 ;
(2) "Affiliated Institution" means an institution other than a constituent college or a recognised institution, affiliated to the University and incldues a institution deemed to be affiliated under Section 5 ;
(3) "Board of Studies" means a Board of Studies constituted under Section 28;
(4) "Constituent College" means a college established, maintained or managed by the University ;
(5) "Constituent Institution" means an institution, other than a college established, maintained or managed by the University ;
(6) "Court" means the Court constituted under Section 18 ;
(7) "Department" means a department of the University and designated as such by it, with reference to a subject or group of subjects of study in the University ;
(8) "Executive Council" and "Academic Council" means the Executive Council and Academic Council constituted under Sections 20 and 22 respectively ;
(9) "Finance Committee" means the Finance Committee constituted under Section 30;
(10) "Government College" means a college maintained and managed by the State or Union Government;
(11) "Hall" means a unit of residence of the students maintained or recognized by the University or which provision is made for imparting tutorial and other supplementary instructions ;
(12) "Head of Department" means Teacher-in-charge of a department and designated as such by the University and includes any other person designated as such by the University ;
(13) "Hostel" means a unit of residence of students maintained or recognized by the University, other than a hall;
(14) "Post-graduate Board" and "under-graduate Board" mean the Post-graduate and the Under-graduate Boards constituted under Sections 24 and 26 respectively :
(15) "Principal" means the Head of a teaching staff of a constituent, affiliated or recognized college ;
(16) "Recognized College" means a college other than a constituent college or affiliated college recognized by the University and includes a college deemed to be recognized under Section 5 ;
(17) "Recognized Institution" means an institution other than a constitution to affiliated institution recognised by the University and includes an institution deemed to be recognised under Section 5 ;
(18) "Selection Committee" means the Selection Committee constituted under Section 32 ;
(19) "State Government" means the Government of Assam ;
(20) "Statutes", "Ordinances" and "Regulations" means, respectively, the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations of the University made under this Act:
(21) "Teacher" means a professor, a reader or a lecturer of the University or college whether constituent or affiliated, or any other person imparting instructions or guiding research and designated as a teacher by the University and includes a person recognized as a teacher by the University ; and
(22) "University" means the Dibrugarh University as constituted under this Act.
3. The University. - (1) The Chancellor, he Vice-Chancellor, the Rector and the members of the Court, the Executive Council, an the Academic Council, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership shall constitute a body corporate by the name of "The Dibrugarh University."
(2) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall sue and be sued by that name.
4. Powers of the University. - The University shall have the following powers, namely:
(i) to provide for instruction (including correspondence courses) and research in the humanities, science and technology, education, medicine and other professional subjects and in other spheres of learning and knowledge of a standard and thoroughness required and expected of a University of the highest standing, and to secure the advancement, diffusion and extension of knowledge in all spheres of learning;
(ii) to establish within the University area or outside that area such field stations and specialized laboratories and such other not is for research and instruction as are necessary for the furtherance of its subjects :
(iii) to organize and to undertake extramural teaching and extension services;
(iv) to hold examinations and grant to, and confer degrees, diplomas, certificates or other academic distinctions and to deprive persons of any degrees, diplomas, certificates, or distinction granted to or conferred upon them by the University for good and sufficient cause ;
(v) to create such teaching, administrative and other posts as the University may deem necessary from time to time and to make appointment thereto;
(vi) to appoint or recognize persons as Professors, Readers, or Lecturers or otherwise as Teachers of the University ;
(vii) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, exhibitions and prizes;
(viii) to establish and maintain colleges and halls, to recognise and supervise colleges and halls not maintained by the University and other accommodation for students, and to withdraw any such recognition ;
(ix) to regulate and enforce discipline among students and employees of the University and to take such disciplinary measures in this regard as may be deemed necessary ;
(x) to make ornaments for promoting health and general welfare of students of the University ;
(xi) to determine and provide for examination for admission into University ;
(xii) to affiliate with it or admit to any of its privileges or to recognize for any purpose either in whole or in part, any college or institution or members or students thereof, on such terms and conditions as may from time to time, be prescribed, and to withdraw such affiliation, privileges and recognition;
(xiii) to co-operate with any University authority, other authority or association or any other public or private body having view of the promotion of purposes and objects similar to those of the University or appoint one or more representatives of the University to act upon any such body, authority or association for such purposes as may be agreed upon, on such terms and conditions as may, from time to time, be prescribed ;
(xiv) to enter into any agreement for the incorporation in the University or another institution and for taking over its rights, properties and liabilities and for any other purposes not repugnant to this Act ;
(xv) to demand and receive payment of such fees and other charges as may be prescribed from time to time ;
(xvi) to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of any property movable or immovable including trust or endowed property within or outside the University area, for the purposes or objects of the University, and to invest any funds representing such property in such manner as the University thinks fit;
(xvii) to borrow, with the approval of the State Government, on the security of the University property, money for the purpose of the University; and
(xviii) to do all such other acts and things, whether incidental to the powers aforesaid or not, as may be requisite in order to further the subjects of the University.
5. Jurisdiction. - (1) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the powers of the University conferred by or under this Act shall extend to the district of Lakhimpur and Sibsagar and to such other areas and colleges, institutions and other bodies beyond this territorial limit to which any or all of the powers of the University may be extended by it, with the previous approval of the State Government.
(2) From the date on which this Act comes into force the Gauhati University shall come to exercise its jurisdiction over all the colleges and institutions affiliated to or recognized by it and lying within the district of Lakhimpur and Sibsagar, and the Dibrugarh University shall exercise authority and jurisdiction over them fro the aforesaid date, and they were affiliated to, or recognized by Dibrugarh University from the aforesaid date.
6. University open to all classes, castes and creeds. - The University shall be open to all persons irrespective of sex, race, caste, or creed and it shall not be lawful for the University to adopt or impose on any person any test whatsoever of religious belief or profession in order to entitle him to be admitted thereto as a teacher or as student, or to hold any office therein, or to graduate or to enjoy or exercise any privilege thereof except in respect of any particular benefication accepted by the University, where such test is made a condition thereof by the testamentary or other instrument creating such benefaction.