Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University Act, 2013
No: 26 Dated: Sep, 18 2013
Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University Act, 2013
(Act No 26 of 2013)
An Act to establish and incorporate a national aviation University to facilitate and promote aviation studies and research to achieve excellence in areas of aviation management, policy, science and technology, aviation environment, training in governing fields of safety and security regulations on aviation and other related fields to produce quality human resources to cater to the needs of the aviation sector and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University Act, 2013.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act.
2. 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) "Board of Schools" means the Board of Schools of the University;
(d) "Campus" means the unit established or constituted by the University for making arrangements for instruction, research, education and training;
(e) "Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor" mean, respectively, the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of the University;
(f) "College" means a college maintained by or admitted to the privileges of the University for imparting education and training in aviation studies or in its associated disciplines;
(g) "Court" means the Court of the University;
(h) "Dean of School" means an administrative officer in charge of a college, faculty or a Division in a University;
(i) "Department" means a Department of Studies and includes a Centre of Studies;
(j) "Director General" means the Director General of Civil Aviation;
(k) "Distance Education System" means the system of imparting education through any means of communication, such as broadcasting, telecasting, internet, correspondence courses, seminars, contact programmes, e-learning or the combination of such means;
(l) "employee" means any person appointed by the University and includes teachers and other staff of the University;
(m) "Executive Council" means the Executive Council of the University;
(n) "Finance Committee" means the Finance Committee of the University;
(o) "Hall" means a unit of residence for the students of the University or of a College or an Institution maintained by the University;
(p) "Institution" means an institution, school, college or centre of studies maintained by or admitted to the privileges of the University for imparting education, training and research in aviation studies or in its associated disciplines;
(q) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
(r) "off-shore Campus" means an institution, college, centre, school or campus of the University established outside the country;
(s) "principal" means the head of a college or an institution;
(t) "recognised Institution" means an institution admitted to the privileges of the University for imparting education in aviation studies or its associated disciplines;
(u) "recognised teachers" means such persons as are recognised by the University for the purpose of imparting instructions in a college or an institution admitted to the privileges of the University;
(v) "school" means a School of Studies of the University;
(w) "Statutes", "Ordinances" and "Regulations" mean, respectively, the Statutes, the Ordinances and the Regulations of the University made under this Act;
(x) "teachers of the University" means Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors, Readers, Senior Lecturers, Lecturers and such other persons as may be appointed or recognised for imparting instruction or conducting research in the University or in any college or institution maintained by the University or for giving guidance to students for any course of study of the University are designated as teachers by the Statutes;
(y) "University" means the National Aviation University established under this Act;
(z) "University Grants Commission" means the Commission established under section 4 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956).
3. Establishment of University. - (1) There shall be established a University by the name of "Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University".
(2) The headquarters of the University shall be at Fursatganj in the District of Raebareli in the State of Uttar Pradesh;
(3) The University may establish or maintain campuses and centres at such other places within its jurisdiction as it may deem fit.
(4) The first Chancellor, the first Vice-Chancellor, the first members of the Court, the Executive Council, 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, shall constitute the University.
(5) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal with power, subject to the provisions of this Act, to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to contract, and shall by that name, sue and be sued.
(6) The University shall be a teaching, research and affiliating Aviation University.