Delhi University Act,1922
Act No : 8
Section : POWERS OF THE UNIVERSITY
SECTION 04: POWERS OF THE UNIVERSITY
- The University shall have the following powers namely: -
(1) to provide for instruction in such branches of learning as the University may think Fit, and to make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge,
9[(2) to hold examinations and to grant to, and confer degrees and other academic distinctions on persons who -
(a) have pursued a course of study in the University or in any College, or
(b) arc non -collegiate women students residing within the territorial jurisdiction of the University, or
(c) are teachers in educational institutions under conditions laid down in the Statutes and Ordinances and have passed lhc examinations of the University under like conditions. ]10[or
(d) have pursued a course of study by correspondence, whether residing within the territorial jurisdiction of the Universily or not,]11[or]11[have been registered by the Universily. subject to such conditions as may be laid down in the Statutes and ordinances, as external candidates, being persons residing within the territorial limits to which the powers of lhc Universily extend,]
(3) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions on approved persons in the manner laid down in lhc Statutes,
(4) to grant such diplomas to, and to provide such lectures and instruction for, persons not being members of the Universily, as the University may determine,
(5) to co-operate with other Univesities and authorities in such manner and for such purposes as the Universily may determine,
(6) to institute Professorships, Readerships, Lecturerships and any other teaching posts required by lhc Universily,
(7) to appoint or recognize persons as Professors, Readers or Lecturers, or otherwise as teachers of lhc Universily,
(8) to institute and award Fellowships, Scholarships, Exhibitions and Prizes12[ * * *],
13[(9) to maintain Colleges and Halls, to admit to its privileges colleges not maintained by the University and to withdraw all or any of those privileges, and to recognise Halls not maintained by the University and to withdraw any such recognition,]
14[(9A) to declare, with the consent of the colleges concerned, in the manner specified by the Academic Council, colleges conducting courses of study in the Faculties of Medicine, Technology, Music or Fine Arts as autonomous colleges : Provided that the extent of the autonomy which each such college may have, and the matters in relation to which it may exercise such autonomy, shall be such as may be prescribed by the Statutes;
(9B) to set up one or more College Administrative Councils for two or more colleges with 'such composition, powers and functions as may be laid down in the Statutes;]
(10) to demand and receive payment of such fees and other charges as may be authorized by the Ordinances,
(11) to supervise and control the residence and discipline of students of the University, and to make arrangement for promoting their health and general welfare.
15[(11A) to make grants from the funds of the University for assistance to forms of extra-mural leaching,]
16[(12) to make special arrangements in respect of the residence, discipline and teaching of women students,
17[(12A) to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of property movable or immovable, including trust or endowed properly, for the purposes of the University,
(12B) with the approval of the Central Government to borrow, on the security of University properly, money lor the purposes of the University.]
18[12C] to create administrative and ministerial and other necessary posts and to make
appointments thereto, and]
(13) to do all such other acts and things, whether incidental to lhc powers aforesaid or not. as may be requisite in order to further the objects of the University as a leaching and examining body. And to cultivate and promote arts, science and other branches of learning.
Clause (d) inserted in sub-section (1) in 1961 - " The Third Five -Year Plan includes a scheme for instituting evening colleges and for the introduction of correspondence courses under the various University in India. To begin with. the correspondence courses will be conducted in the Arts subjects but at a later stage Science subjects may also he included. These courses are likely to benefit mostly those who are living faraway from the University and College centres and also those who are unable to obtain admission or otherwise prosecute higher studies in colleges. The Expert committee appointed by the Central Government ......has, with the concurrence of the University of Delhi, recommended that correspondence courses be introduced under the University of Delhi from January. 1962. Such courses will be open not only to those who reside in the Union Territory of Delhi hut also to those who reside outside that territory.Section 5however, precludes the University from exercising the powers conferred upon ilbeyond the limits of the Union Territory of Delhi, It is. therefore, proposed to amend the Act suitably in order to enable the University to conduct such courses and to confer degrees, etc.. on persons who have pursued a course of study by correspondence........." - S..O.R.. Gazette of India, 1961. Extra. Pt. 11. Sec. 2, p. 894.
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