Pandit Sundar Lal Shamra (Open) University Chhattisgarh Act, 2004
No: 26 Dated: Jan, 24 2005
Pandit Sundar Lal Shamra (Open) University Chhattisgarh Act, 2004
(Act No. 26 of 2004)
An Act to establish and incorporate an open University, at State level for introduction and promotion of open university and distance education system, in the field of higher education and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Be it enacted by the Chhattisgarh Legislature in the Fifty-fifth Year of the Republic of India, as follows : -
1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Pandit Sundar Lal Sharma (Open) University Chhattisgarh Adhiniyam, 2004.
(2) It extends to the whole of Chhattisgarh.
(3) It shall come into force on the date of its publication in Official Gazette.
2. Definitions. - In this Act and the Statute, unless the context otherwise requires : -
(a) "Academic Council" means the Academic Council of the University;
(b) "Co-ordination Committee" means the committee established under section 34 of the Chhattisgarh Vishvvidyalaya Adhiniyam, 1973 (No. 22 of 1973);
(c) "Department" means a department of the University of the subject concerned; ...
(d) "Distance education system" means the system of imparting education through any means of communication, such as broadcasting, telecasting, audio visual means, audio methods, correspondence course, seminar, contact programme or the combination of any two or more of such means;
(e) "Employee" means any person appointed by the University, includes teachers and other academic staff of the University;
(f) "Finance Committee" means the Finance Committee of the University;
(g) "Indira Gandhi National Open University" means the University established under Section 3 of the Indira Gandhi National Open University Act, 1985 (No. 50 of 1985);
(h) "Kulpati" means the Kulpati of the University;
(i) "Ordinance" means ordinance made under this Act;
(j) "Planning Board" means the Planning Board of the University;
(k) "Regional Centre" means a centre established or maintained by the University for the purpose of coordinating and supervising the work of study centres in any region and for performing such other functions as may be conferred on such centre by the Executive Council;
(l) "Regulation" means the Regulation made under this Act;
(m) "Statute" means Statute made under this Act;
(n) "Student" means a student of the University, and includes any person who has enrolled himself for pursuing any course of study of the University;
(o) "Study Centre" means a centre established, maintained or recognised by the University for the purpose of advising, counselling or for rendering any other assistance required by the students;
(p) "Teacher" means Professor, Reader, Assistant Professor and such other persons as may be designated as such by the Ordinance for imparting instruction in the University or for giving guidance or rendering assistance to students for pursuing any course of study of the University and shall include part-time and whole-time teachers in Regional Centre, or Study Centre;
(q) terms not defined in this Act, will have the same meaning as defined in Section 4 of the Chhattisgarh Vishwavidyalaya Adhiniyam, 1973 (No. 22 of 1973);
(r) "University" means the Pandit Sundar Lal Sharma (Open) University Chhattisgarh established under this Act;
(s) "University Grants Commission" means the Commission established under the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (No. 3 of 1956).
3. Establishment and incorporation of the University. - (1) There shall be established a University by the name "Pandit Sundar Lal Sharma (Open) University Chhattisgarh".
(2) The headquarters of the University shall be at Bilaspur and it may establish or maintain Regional Centres, and Study Centres at such places as it may deem fit.
(3) First Kulpati & members of, first Executive Council, the Academic Council and the Planning Board and all persons who may hereafter become such officers or members, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership, shall hereby constitute a body corporate by the name of "Pandit Sundar Lal Sharma (Open) University Chhattisgarh".
(4) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and shall sue and be sued by the said name.