Section 60 in Maharashtra Public Universities Act, 2016
60. Powers and duties of Board of Research.
- The Board of Research shall have the following powers and duties, namely:-(a)to work on long term policy and strategy for promotion of research culture in the university, colleges and recognized institutions;(b)to advise and encourage the teachers to take up research in emerging areas at individual and group level;(c)to promote inter-disciplinary research programmes by co-ordinating amongst teachers and also to make and articulate policies for sharing of research and development infrastructure;(d)to encourage the university departments, colleges and recognized institutions to hold research seminars in all disciplines for the research students;(e)to publish research journals, monographs for different disciplines;(f)to decide upon policy for maintenance of standards of research for Ph.D. degrees, in consonance with the norms of the University Grants Commission and other regulatory bodies;(g)to work on creation of research and development data base for work done in university departments, colleges and recognized institutions in a stand-alone mode or as group activity or in collaboration with industries and other research and development laboratories;(h)to work out and initiate research in delivery of education, pedagogy of face-to-face and e-learning, impact of e-learning and virtual classrooms on learning and understanding of students, open distance learning and conventional education;(i)to make efforts and also assist the teachers, university departments, colleges and recognized institutions to raise the funds for research activities;(j)to work out the budget for research activities of the university;(k)to mobilize money from the industry for enhancing research activities;(l)to identify problems and issues related to the region within the jurisdiction of the university and to take special initiative to address such issues through systematic research;(m)to work on long-term policies and strategies for creating synergy between researchers and industries resulting into promotion of knowledge and technology transfer and productive conversion of research;(n)to encourage industries to promote, adopt and participate in the basic and applied research projects;(o)to establish central research laboratories with the help of participation of national and international industries;(p)to undertake any other task as may be assigned by the university authorities so as to carry out objectives of the Board of Research.
