The University Act

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(1) There shall be establishment a University by the name of the Krishnakanta Handique State Open University.

(2) The head-quarter of the University shall be at Guwahati and it may establish, maintain or recognize colleges, Regional Centres and Study Centres at such places in the state of Assam and may also open regional Centre and Study Centres outside Assam at such places as it may deem fit;

(3) The first Vice-Chancellor, the first Registrar and the first members of the Board of Management, the Academic Council and all persons who may hereafter become such officers or members, so long as they continue to hold such offices or membership shall constitute a body corporate by the name of the Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University.

(4) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and shall sue and be sued by the said name.

(5) The University shall be competent to acquire and hold property both movable and immovable and to lease, sell or otherwise transfer any movable or immovable property which may have become vested in or been acquired by it for the purpose of the University and to contract and to do all other things necessary for the purpose of this Act.

(6) In all suits and other legal proceedings by or against the University, the pleadings shall be signed and verified by and all process in such suit and proceedings shall be issued to and be served on the Registrar.

4. The objects of the University shall be to advance and disseminate learning and knowledge by a diversity of means including the use of any communication technology to provide opportunities for higher education to a larger segment of the population and to promote the educational well being of the community generally, to encourage Open University and distance education system in the educational pattern of the State and to co-ordinate and determine standards in such system, and the University shall in organizing its activities have due regard to the objects specified in the Schedule.

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(1) The University shall have the following powers, namely: -

(i) to provide for admission and for instruction in such branches of knowledge including technology, vocations and professions as the University may determine from time to time and to make provision for research;

(ii) to plan and prescribe courses of study for degrees, diplomas, certificates and for research or any other purpose;

(iii) to hold examinations and confer degrees, diplomas, certificates or other academic distinctions or recognitions including Ph. D on persons who have pursued a course of study or conducted research in the manner laid down by the Statutes and Ordinances;

(iv) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner laid down by the Statutes;

(v) to determine the manner in which distance education in relation to the academic programmes of the University may be organized.

(vi) to institute professorships, readerships, lecturerships and other academic positions necessary for imparting instructions or for preparing educational material or for conducting other academic activities, including guidance, designing and delivery of course and evaluation of the work done by the students and to appoint persons to such professorships, readerships, lecturerships and other academic positions;

(vii) to co-operate with and seek the co-operation of other Universities and institutions of higher learning, professional bodies and organizations for such purposes as the University considers necessary;

(viii) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, prizes and such other awards for recognition of merit as the University may deem fit;

(ix) to establish and maintain such Regional Centres as may be determined by the University from time to time;