DR. RAJENDRA PRASAD CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ACT, 2016
No: 32 Dated: May, 28 2016
THE DR. RAJENDRA PRASAD CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ACT, 2016
(Act No. 32 of 2016)
An Act to provide for the establishment and incorporation of a University by conversion of the existing Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa, Bihar to Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University for the development of agriculture and for the furtherance of the advancement of learning and pursuit of research in agriculture and allied sciences and to declare it to be an institution of national importance
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University Act, 2016.
(2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Declaration of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University as an institution of national importance.— Whereas the objects of the institution known as the Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University are such as to make the institution one of the national importance, it is hereby declared that the institution known as the Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University is an institution of national importance.
3. Definitions.— In this Act, and in all Statutes made hereunder, unless the context otherwise requires, —
(a) “Academic Council” means the Academic Council of the University;
(b) “academic staff” means such categories of staff as are designated as academic staff by the Ordinances;
(c) “agriculture” means the basic and applied sciences of the soil and water management, crop production including production of all garden crops, control of plants, pests and diseases, horticulture including floriculture, animal husbandry including veterinary and dairy science, fisheries, forestry including farm forestry, home-science, agricultural engineering and technology, marketing and processing of agricultural and animal husbandry products, land use and management;
(d) “Board” means the Board of Management of the University;
(e) “Board of Studies” means the Board of Studies of the University;
(f) “Chancellor” means the Chancellor of the University;
(g) “college” means a constituent college of the University whether located at the headquarters, campus or elsewhere;
(h) “Department” means a Department of Studies of the University;
(i) “employee” means any person appointed by the University and includes teachers and other staff of the University;
(j) “extension education” means the educational activities concerned with the training of orchardists, farmers and other groups serving agriculture, horticulture, fisheries and improved practices related thereto and the various phases of scientific technology related to agriculture and agricultural production including post-harvest technology and marketing;
(k) “Faculty” means Faculty of the University;
(l) “Ordinances” means the Ordinances of the University;
(m) “Regulations” means the Regulations made by any prescribed authority of the University;
(n) “Research Advisory Committee” means the Research Advisory Committee of the University;
(o) “Statutes” means the Statutes of the University;
(p) “student” means a person enrolled in the University for undergoing a course of study for obtaining a degree, diploma or other academic distinction duly instituted;
(q) “teachers” means Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors, Teaching Faculty Members and their equivalent appointed for imparting instruction or conducting research or extension education programmes or combination of these in the University, college or any institute maintained by the University and designated as teachers by the Ordinances;
(r) “University” means the Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University established under this Act;
(s) “Vice-Chancellor” means the Vice-Chancellor of the University; and
(t) “Visitor” means the Visitor of the University.