- Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Statutes and the Ordinances, the Post-Graduate Board shall have the following powers and duties namely :(a)to recommend to the Academic Council, the pattern of Post-graduate course, the examinations to be held for such course, and for their revision;(b)to approve the curricula and syllabi for the Post-graduate course and to modify them when necessary after considering the recommendations of the Board of Studies ;(c)to recommend the Executive Council for the institution and award of fellowships, scholarships, prizes, honorary degrees and other awards or other academic distinctions, and for the institution and conferring of degrees, diplomas, titles, certificates and other academic distinctions in the Post-Graduate course on the basis of examination and for the withdrawal thereof ;(d)to make recommendations to the Executive Council for the institution of professorships, lectureships, readerships or other posts of teachers required for the Post-graduate course and for the recognition of persons as teachers of the University for such courses, and regarding their emoluments, duties and terms and conditions of their service;(e)to recommend to the Academic Council the conditions for the admission of students to Post-graduate courses, and to make regulations for their attendance and progress ;(f)to make regulations in regard to residence, discipline of students in the departments and the constituent colleges, and institutions imparting Post-graduate courses and for the promotions of their health and welfare;(g)to make recommendations to the Executive Council regarding the allocation of funds to the Post-graduate Departments and constituent colleges and institutions engaged in instruction in Post-graduate courses or research, and to the libraries, laboratories, museums established by the University ;(h)to review the works of the Post-graduate Departments and colleges and institutions engaged in instruction in Post-graduate course and research and to call for report thereon and to take all steps necessary for the improvement of standard of research and teaching and other affairs therein;(i)to consider the measures suggested by Academic Council on any matter affecting the academic work of the University and to express its views on them, to consider any matter referred to it by the Executive Council on the Academic Council and to submit reports thereon to the Executive Council, or the Academic Council as the case may be ;(j)to approve the panels of the examiners for Post-graduate examinations, with or without modifications, after considering the recommendations of the Board of Studies and to modify the same as any time after consideration with the Board of Studies concerned ;(k)to promote research within the University and to make regulations governing research degrees ; and(l)to appoint Committees, and to fix their terms of reference, in regard to any matter within the jurisdiction of the Post-Graduate Board.
