26. Powers and duties of the Faculty Councils of Post-graduate studies.
- Subject to the provisions of this Act, and the Statutes, the Ordinances and the Regulations, a Faculty Council for Post-graduate Studies shall exercise the following powers and perform the following duties: -(i)to make proposals to the Executive Council for the establishment of University Colleges, University Departments, institutions, libraries, laboratories and museums for study and research to be maintained by the University;(ii)to recommend to the Executive Council the creation and institution of Professorships including Distinguished or Chair Professorships, Associate Professorships, Assistant Professorships and other teaching posts and the duties and emoluments thereof;(iii)to make proposals to the Executive Council for the promotion of research and through special committees, if any, constituted for the purpose, to call for reports on such research work from persons engaged therein, and to make recommendations to the Executive Council thereon;(iv)to determine after consulting the Executive Council the minimum qualifications for posts of Teachers of the University; as per guidelines of the University Grants Commission or any other concerned body;(v)to make proposals to the Executive Council regarding provisions to be made for enabling the University to undertake specialization of studies and for organization of common laboratories, libraries, museums, institutes of research and other institutions, maintained by the University;(vi)to constitute or reconstitute the departments of teaching with the approval of the Executive Council;(vii)to make provisions for lectures and instructions for students of constituent and University Colleges and University Laboratories and also for other persons who are not such students;(viii)to advise the Executive Council on the institution of degrees, titles, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions;(ix)to hold and conduct, subject to general supervision by the Executive Council, University examinations and publish the results thereof in accordance with the Regulations made in this regard;(x)to provide for the inspection or the investigation into the affairs of any department or any University College and submit report to the Executive Council;(xi)to have general supervision over the Boards of Studies attached to the Faculty Council;(xii)to frame rules relating to the courses of Post-graduate Studies and the division of subjects in regard thereto including interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary integrated courses in selected subjects and to recommend to the Executive Council the making of Regulations in this regard;(xiii)to appoint, if required by the Executive Council, after considering the views of the Boards of Studies attached to the Faculty Council, Boards of Examiners in the subject or subjects relating to Post-graduate Studies, including the subjects for doctoral thesis and for prizes and medals;(xiv)to call for such reports or information as the Faculty Council may consider necessary for efficient discharge of its duties from the teaching departments, research units or Boards of Studies;(xv)to consider any educational matter relating to the Faculty Council and to arrive at decisions or make recommendations pertaining thereto to the appropriate authority or officer;(xvi)to maintain contact with the corresponding Council for Undergraduate Studies for the purpose of sharing ideas and ensuring co-ordination;(xvii)to submit each year its Annual Report to the Executive Council;(xviii)to make rules for the transaction of its own business;(xix)to exercise all other powers and perform all other functions conferred and imposed on it by or under this Act;(xx)to delegate to the teaching departments, research units and Boards of Studies attached to it the responsibility for such academic matters as respectively concern such departments, units and Boards;(xxi)to consider and approve results of examinations leading to post-graduate degrees, diplomas and certificates;(xxii)to recommend to the Executive Council the conferment of post-graduate degrees, diplomas and certificates.
