APG (Alakh Prakash Goyal) Shimla University Establishment And Regulation Bill, 2012
(d) "employee" means any person appointed by the University and includes teachers and other staff of the University;
(e) "fee" means monetary collection made by the University or its colleges, institutions or study centers, as the case may be, from the students by whatever name it may be called, which is not refundable;
(f) "Government" or "State Government" means the Government of Himachal Pradesh;
(g) "Governing Body" means the Governing Body constituted under section 18 of this Act;
(h) "higher education" means study of a curriculum or course for the pursuit of knowledge beyond 10+2 level;
(i) "hostel" means a place of residence for the students of the University, or its colleges, institutions and study centers, established or recognized to be as such by the University;
(j) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (k) "off campus" means a centre of the University established by it outside the main campus operated and maintained as its constituent unit, having the University''s complement of facilities, faculty and staff;
(l) "Official Gazette" means the Rajpatra, Himachal Pradesh;
(m) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(n) "regulating body" means a body established by the Central Government for laying down norms and conditions for ensuring academic standards of higher education, such as University Grants Commission, All India Council of Technical Education, National Council of Teacher Education, Medical Council of India, Pharmaceutical Council of India, National Council of Assessment and Accreditation, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Distance Education Council, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Himachal Pradesh Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Commission etc. and includes the Government;
(o) "section" means a section of this Act;
(p) "sponsoring body" means A.P. Goyal Charitable Trust, Delhi-110092, registered under the Indian Trust Act, 1882 and its Subsidiary Trust registered vide Registration No. 85/2012 by the Sub-Registrar, Shimla (Rural), Himachal Pradesh;
(q) "State" means State of Himachal Pradesh;
(r) "statutes", "ordinances" and "regulations" mean respectively, the statutes, ordinances and regulations of the University made under this Act;
(s) "student" means a person enrolled in the University for taking a course of study for a degree, diploma or other academic distinction instituted by the University, including a research degree;
(t) "study centre" means a centre established and maintained or recognized by the University for the purpose of advising, counseling or for rendering any other assistance required by the students in the context of distance education;
(u) "teacher" means a Professor, Reader, Lecturer or any other person required to impart
education or to guide research or to render guidance in any form to the students for
pursuing a course of study of the University;
(v) "University" means the APG (Alakh Prakash Goyal) Shimla University, Village
Sargeen(Shoghi-Mehli by-Pass Road) P.O. Behulia, Tehsil and District, Shimla,
Himachal Pradesh; and
(w) "Regulatory Commission" means the Himachal Pradesh Private Educational
Institutions Regulatory Commission, established under section 3 of the Himachal
Pradesh Private Educational Institutions (Regulatory Commission) Act, 2010. (Act
No. 15 of 2011).
3. The objects of the University.-- The objects of the University shall include,--
(a) to provide instructions, teaching and training in higher education with a view to
create higher levels of intellectual abilities;
(b) to establish facilities for education and training;
(c) to carry out teaching, research and offer continuing education programmes;
(d) to create centres of excellence for research and development relevant to the needs of
the State and for sharing knowledge and its application;
(e) to establish campus in the State;
(f) to establish examination centres;
(g) to institute degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions on the
basis of examination or any such other method, while doing so, the University shall
ensure that the standards of degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic
distinctions are not lower than those laid down by the regulating bodies;
(h) to set up off campus centres, subject to applicable rules or regulations;
(i) to engage in areas of specialization with proven ability to make distinctive
contributions to the objectives of the University education system that is academic
engagement clearly distinguishable from programmes of an ordinary nature that lead
to conventional degrees in arts, science, engineering, medicine, dental, pharmacy,
management, etc. routinely offered by conventional institutions;
(j) to establish broad-based and viable under graduate, post graduate and research
programmes in several disciplines with firm interdisciplinary orientation and
linkages; and
(k) to make the University functional within a period of one year from the date of
commencement of this Act.
4. Incorporation.-- (1) The first Chancellor and the first Vice-Chancellor of the
University and the first members of the Governing body, Board of Management 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, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of
the APG (Alakh Prakash Goyal) Shimla University, Himachal Pradesh.
(2) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and shall sue
and be sued by the said name.
(3) The University shall be situated and have its head- quarters at Shimla, District
Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
5. Powers and functions of the University.-- (1) The University shall have the
following powers and functions, namely: --
(i) to provide for instructions in such branches of learning as the University may, from
time to time, determine and to make provision for research and for advancement and
dissemination of knowledge and for extension of education;
(ii) to conduct innovative experiments in modern methods and technologies in the field
of technical education in order to maintain international standards of such education,
training and research;
(iii) to organize and to undertake extra-mural teaching and extension services;
(iv) to hold examinations and grant diplomas and certificates and confer degrees and
other academic distinctions on persons, subject to recognition by any statutory body
under any law, if required, and to withdraw any such diplomas, certificates, degrees
or other academic distinctions 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 make appointments thereto;
(vi) the sponsoring body/University shall appoint full time regular employees for the
University and the salary of the employees shall be deposited in the bank account of
the employees every month;
(vii) to institute and award fellowships, studentships and prizes;
(viii) to establish and maintain hostel including halls; recognise guide, supervise and
control hostels including halls not maintained by the University and other
accommodation for the residence of the 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 as may be deemed necessary;
(x) to make arrangements for promoting health and general welfare of the students and
the employees of the University and Colleges;
(xi) to determine the criterion for admission in the University and its Colleges;
(xii) to recognize for any purpose, either in whole or in part, any institution or members
or students thereof on such terms and conditions as may, from time to time, be
specified and to withdraw such recognition;
(xiii) to develop and maintain twinning arrangement with centers of excellence in modern
advanced technology in the developed countries for higher education training and
research, including distance education subject to the University Grants Commission
Act, 1956 and the regulations made thereunder;
(xiv) to co-operate with any other University, authority or association or any public body
having purposes and objects similar to those of the University for such purposes as
may be agreed upon, on such terms and conditions as may, from time to time, be
specified by the University;
(xv) to co-operate with other National and International Institutions in the conduct of
research and higher education subject to the University Grants Commission Act,
1956 and the regulations made thereunder;
(xvi) to deal with property belonging to or vested in the University in any manner which
is considered necessary for promoting the objects of the University;
(xvii) to enter into agreement for the incorporation in the University of any institution and
for taking over its rights, properties and liabilities and for any other purpose not
repugnant to this Act;
(xviii) to demand and receive payment of such fees and other charges as may be specified
from time to time;
(xix) to receive donations and grants, except from parents and students, and to acquire,
hold, manage and dispose of any property, movable or immovable, including trust or
endowed property within or outside Himachal Pradesh for the purposes and objects
of the University, and to invest funds in such manner as the University thinks fit;
(xx) to make provisions for research and advisory services and for that purpose to enter
into such arrangements with other institutions or bodies as the University may deem
necessary;
(xxi) to provide for the printing, reproduction and publication of research and other work,
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