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Provided further that no such prior approval of the Government shall be necessary for incurring any such expenditure of a non recurring nature subject to a maximum of ten thousand rupees in the aggregate in the financial year;
(e) all other matters which by this Act or the Statutes are to be, or may be provided for by the Ordinances.

32. Thus Section 37 of the Act leaves no doubt that the Syndicate has powers to bring about Ordinances to provide for the residence and discipline of students. Instead of bringing in an Ordinance, respondents rely on the Mahatma Gandhi University Student's Code of Conduct Rules, 2005 to regulate the discipline of the students.

40. At this juncture, it would be apposite to bear in mind, the preeminent role of a Principal in a college. The Mahatma Gandhi University Statutes has given considerable powers to the Principals of educational institutions to enforce discipline in the college. Educational Institutions can lay down code of conduct and guidelines to be enforced by the Principal of the educational institution. This unenviable position of the Principal of the educational institution is recognised and reiterated by this Court in several decisions including in Sojan Fracis (supra). But for the vital and vibrant presence of the Principal within the educational campus, no effective administration would be possible in an educational institution. Around the Principal wheels the tone and temper of the institution, on him depends on the continuity of its traditions, the maintenance of discipline and the efficiency of its teaching, as stated by the Full Bench of this Court in Rt. Rev. Aldo Maria Patroni v. E.C. Kesavan (1964 KLT 791). Paragraph Nos. 27 and 28 of Sojan Francis reads thus:

27. Discipline is the bedrock on which an educational system is founded. In common parlance, discipline may be a state of order maintained by training and control a particular system of regulation or conduct, instructions and exercise, designed to train to proper conduct or action. Jurisprudentially examined it brings forth something more. "Obedientiaest legis essentia" obedience is the guiding force to sustain the law, rule, regulation or custom. Principal is charged with a duty to maintain the discipline. University Laws including Mahatma Gandhi University Statutes have given considerable powers to the Principals of educational institutions to enforce discipline in the college. Educational Institutions can lay down code of conduct and guidelines to be enforced by the Principal of the educational institution. The apex court in M.H. Devendrappa v.