The Indira Gandhi National Tribal University Act, 2007

(1) This Act may be called the Indira Gandhi National TribalUniversity Act, 2007. (2) It shall come into force on such date1as the Central Government may, by notification in theOfficial Gazette, appoint.

In this Act, and in all Statutes made hereunder, unless the context otherwiserequires.-- (a) "Academic Board" in relation to a regional centre or a recognised institution means theacademic body charged with the academic matters of such centre or institution, as the case may be,and recognised as such by the University; (b) "Academic Council" means the Academic Council of the University; (c) "academic staff" means such categories of staff as are designated as academic staff by theOrdinances; (d) "Affiliated College" means a college admitted to the privileges of the University; (e) "Board of Studies" means the Board of Studies of the University; (f) "Campus" means the unit established or constituted for making arrangements for instruction,or research, or both, and includes off-campuses; (g) "Chancellor", "Vice-Chancellor" and "Pro-Vice-Chancellor" mean, respectively, theChancellor, Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University; (h) "College Development Council" means the College Development Council of the University; (i) "Court" means the Court of the University; (j) "Dean" means Head of a Faculty of the University; (k) "Department" means a Department of Studies and includes a Centre of Studies; (l) "distance education system" means the system of imparting education through any means ofcommunication, such as broadcasting, telecasting, webcasting correspondence courses, seminars,contact programmes or the combination of any two or more such means; (m) "Director" means Head of a Regional Centre; (n) "employee" means any person appointed by the University and includes teachers and otherstaff of the University; (o) "Executive Council" means the Executive Council of the University; (p) "Faculty" means a Faculty of the University; (q) "Finance Committee" means the Finance Committee of the University; (r) "Hall" means a unit of residence or of corporate life for the students of the University, or of aCollege or of an Institution, maintained or recognised by the University; (s) "Institution" means an academic institution, not being a College, maintained by, or admitted tothe privileges of, the University; (t) "Management Board" in relation to a regional centre or a recognised institution means thegoverning body charged with the management of the affairs of such centre or institution, as the casemay be, and recognised as such by the University; (u) "Principal" means the Head of a College or an Institution maintained by the University andincludes, where there is no Principal, the person for the time being duly appointed to act as Principal,and in the absence of the Principal, or the acting Principal, a Vice-Principal duly appointed as such; (v) "recognised teachers" means such persons as may be recognised by the University for thepurpose of imparting instructions in a College or an Institution admitted to the privileges of theUniversity; (w) "Regional Centres" means off-campuses constituted by the University and functioning as partof the University, established in more tribal dominated areas, as prescribed in the Statutes; (x) "Regulations" means the Regulations made by any authority of the University under this Actfor the time being in force; (y) "Scheduled Population" means and includes the Scheduled Tribes as well as ScheduledCastes, as defined in the Constitution of India; (z) "Statutes" and "Ordinances" mean, respectively, the Statutes and the Ordinances of theUniversity, for the time being in force; (za) "teachers" of the University means Professors, Readers, Lecturers and such other persons asmay be appointed for imparting instructions or conducting research in the University or any Collegeor Institution maintained by the University and are designated as teachers by the Ordinances; (zb) "University" means the Indira Gandhi National Tribal University as incorporated under thisAct.

(1) There shall be established, in the State of Madhya Pradesh, aUniversity by the name of "Indira Gandhi National Tribal University". (2) The headquarters of the University shall be at Amarkantak. (3) The University shall have such number of Regional Centres and Campuses in the tribal areas asthe University may deem fit. (4) The first Chancellor, the first Vice-Chancellor and the first members of the Court, the ExecutiveCouncil and the Academic Council, and all such persons who may hereafter become such officers ormembers, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership, are hereby constituted a bodycorporate by the name of "Indira Gandhi National Tribal University". (5) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall sue and be sued bythe said name.

The objects of the University shall be,-- (i) to provide avenues of higher education and research facilities primarily for the tribalpopulation of India; (ii) to disseminate and advance knowledge by providing instructional and research facilities intribal art, culture, tradition, language, medicinal systems, customs, forest based economic activities,flora, fauna and advancement in technologies relating to the natural resources of the tribal areas; (iii) to collaborate with national and international universities or organisations, specially forundertaking cultural studies and research on tribal populations; (iv) to formulate tribal centric development models, publish reports and monographs; and toorganise conferences, seminars on issues relating to tribes; and to provide inputs to policy matters indifferent spheres; (v) to take appropriate measures for promoting, the members of tribal communities capable ofmanaging, administering and looking after their own needs by access to higher education through aUniversity of their own; (vi) to disseminate and advance knowledge by providing instructional and research facilities insuch other branches of learning as it may deem fit; (vii) to take appropriate measures for promoting innovations in teaching-learning processes ininter-disciplinary studies and research; and to pay special attention to the improvement of the social,educational and economic conditions and welfare of the Scheduled Tribes within the Union of India,their intellectual, academic and cultural development.

The University shall have the following powers, namely:-- (i) to provide for instruction in such branches of learning as the University may, from time totime, determine and to make provisions for research and for the advancement and dissemination ofknowledge; (ii) to grant, subject to such conditions as the University may determine, diplomas or certificatesto, and confer degrees or other academic distinctions on the basis of examinations, evaluation or anyother method of testing on, persons, and to withdraw any such diplomas, certificates, degrees or otheracademic distinctions for good and sufficient cause; (iii) to organise and to undertake extra-mural studies, training and extension services; (iv) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner prescribed by the Statutes; (v) to provide facilities through the distance education system to such persons as it maydetermine; (vi) to institute Directorships, Principalships, Associateships, Professorships, Readerships,Lecturerships and other teaching or academic positions, required by the University and to appointpersons to such Directorships, Principalships, Associateships, Professorships, Readerships,Lecturerships and other teaching or academic positions; (vii) to recognise an institution of higher learning for such purposes as the University maydetermine and to withdraw such recognition; (viii) to recognise persons for imparting instructions in any College or Institution recognised ormaintained by the University; (ix) to appoint persons working in any other University or educational institution as teachers ofthe University for a specified period; (x) to create administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointments thereto; (xi) to co-operate or collaborate or associate with any other University or authority or Institutionof higher learning in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine; (xii) to establish, with the prior approval of the Central Government, such Campuses, specialcentres, specialised laboratories or other units for research and instruction as are, in the opinion of theUniversity, necessary for the furtherance of its objects; (xiii) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, studentships, medals and prizes; (xiv) to establish and maintain Colleges, Institutions and Halls; (xv) to make provision for research and advisory services and for that purpose to enter into sucharrangements with other institutions, industrial or other organisations, as the University may deemnecessary; (xvi) to organise and conduct refresher courses, workshops, seminars and other programmes forteachers, evaluators and other academic staff; (xvii) to make special arrangements in respect of the residence and teaching of women students asthe University may deem necessary; (xviii) to appoint on contract or otherwise visiting professors, Emeritus Professors, Consultants,Scholars and such other persons who may contribute to the advancement of the objects of theUniversity; (xix) to confer autonomous status on a College or an Institution or a Department, as the case maybe, in accordance with the Statutes; (xx) to admit to its privileges Colleges and Institutions located in India not maintained by theUniversity; to withdraw all or any of those privileges in accordance with such conditions as may beprescribed by the Statutes; to recognise, guide, supervise, and control Halls not maintained by theUniversity and other accommodation for students, and to withdraw any such recognition; (xxi) to determine standards of admission to the University which may include examination,evaluation or any other method of testing; (xxii) to demand and receive payment of fees and other charges; (xxiii) to supervise the residences of the students of the University and to make arrangements forpromoting their health and general welfare; (xxiv) to lay down conditions of service of all categories of employees, including their code ofconduct; (xxv) to regulate and enforce discipline among the students and the employees and to take suchdisciplinary measures in this regard as may be deemed by the University to be necessary; (xxvi) to make arrangements for promoting the health and general welfare of the employees; (xxvii) to receive benefactions, donations and gifts and to acquire, hold, manage and dispose ofwith the previous approval of the Central Government, any property, movable or immovable,including trust and endowment properties for the purposes of the University; (xxviii) to borrow, with the prior approval of the Central Government, on the security of theproperty of the University, money for the purposes of the University; (xxix) to establish such number of Regional Centres in various tribal areas of the country as are, inthe opinion of the University, necessary for the furtherance of its objects; (xxx) to make special provisions for the promotion of educational, economic interests and welfareof the members belonging to the Scheduled Tribes by providing adequate percentage of seats in thematters of admission, of posts in the matter of employment and other benefits; (xxxi) to do all such other acts and things as may be necessary, incidental or conducive to theattainment of all or any of its objects.