Maulana Azad National Urdu University Act, 1996
No: 2 Dated: Jan, 08 1997
Maulana Azad National Urdu University Act, 1996
(Act No. 2 of 1997)
An Act to establish and incorporate a University at the national level mainly to promote and develop Urdu language and to impart vacational and technical education in Urdu medium through conventional teaching and distance education system and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title and commencement. -(1) This Act may be called the Maulana Azad National Urdu University Act, 1996.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Definitions. -In this Act, and the 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) "Board of Studies" means the Board of Studies of the University;
(d) "Chancellor", "Vice-Chancellor" and "Pro-Vice-Chancellor" means, respectively, the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and Pro-ViceChancellor of the University;
(e) "Court" means the Court of the University;
(f) "Department" means a Department of Studies; and includes a Centre of Studies;
(g) "distance education system" means the system of imparting education through any means of communication such as broadcasting, telecasting, correspondence courses, seminars, contact programmes or the combination of ay two or more of such means;
(h) "employ" means any person appointed by the University and includes teachers and other staff of the University;
(i) "Executive Council" means the Executive Council of the University;
(j) "Finance Committee" means the Finance Committee of the University;
(k) "Hall" means a unit of residence or of corporate life for the students of the University, or of an Institution, maintained by the University;
(l) "institution" means an academic institution maintained by the University;
(m) "Recognised Institution" means an institution of higher learning recognised by the University;
(n) "Regulations" means the Regulations made by any authority of the University under this Act for the time being force: (o) "School" means a school of Studies of the University;
(p) "Statutes" and "Ordinances" means, respectively, the Statutes and Ordinances of the University for the time being in force;
(q) "Teachers of the University" means Professors, Readers, Lectures and such other persons as may be appointed for imparting instruction or conducting research in the University or in any Institution maintained by the University and who are designated as teachers by the Ordinances;
(r) "University" means the Maulana Azad National Urdu University established and incorporated as a University under this Act.
3. Establishment of the University. -
(1) There shall be established a University by the name of "Maulana Azad National Urdu University".
(2) The headquarters of the University shall be at Hyderabad.
(3) The first Chancellor and the first Vice-Chancellor and the first members of the Courts, the Executive Council and the Academic Council and all persons who may hereafter become such officers or members, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership and hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of "Maulana Azad National Urdu University".
(4) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and shall sue and be sued by the said name.