The Tripura University Act, 2006

(1) This Act may be called the Tripura University Act, 2006. (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 Council" means the Academic Council of the University; (b) "academic staff" means such categories of staff as are designated as academic staff by theOrdinances; (c) "Affiliated College" means a college admitted to the privileges of the University; (d) "Board of Studies" means the Board of Studies of the University; (e) "Chancellor", "Vice-Chancellor", and "Pro-Vice-Chancellor" mean, respectively, theChancellor, Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University; (f) "College Development Council" means the College Development Council of the University; (g) "Constituent College" means a college maintained by the University; (h) "Court" means the Court of the University; (i) "Department" means a Department of Studies and includes a Centre of Studies; (j) "distance education system" means the system of imparting education through any means ofcommunication, such as broadcasting, telecasting, correspondence courses, seminars, contactprogrammes or the combination of any two or more such means; (k) "employee" means any person appointed by the University and includes teachers and otherstaff of the University; (l) "Executive Council" means the Executive Council of the University; (m) "Hall" means a unit of residence or of corporate life for the students of the University, or of aCollege or an Institution, maintained by the University; (n) "Institution" means an academic institution, not being a College, maintained by, or admittedto the privileges of the University; (o) "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; (p) "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; (q) "Regulations" means the Regulations made by any authority of the University under this Actfor the time being in force; (r) "Faculty" means a Faculty of the University; (s) "Statutes" and "Ordinances" mean, respectively, the Statutes and the Ordinances of theUniversity for the time being in force; (t) "teachers of the University" means Professors, Readers, Lecturers and such other persons asmay be appointed for imparting instruction or conducting research in the University or in any Collegeor Institution maintained by the University and are designated as teachers by the Ordinances; (u) "University" means the Tripura University established and incorporated as a University underthis Act.

(1) The Tripura University in the State of Tripura, establishedunder the Tripura University Act, 1987, (Tripura Act 11 of 1987) shall be established as a body corporateunder this Act by the same name of "Tripura University". (2) The first Chancellor, the first Vice-Chancellor and the first members of the Court, the ExecutiveCouncil and the Academic Council, and all persons who may hereafter become such officers or members,so long as they continue to hold such office or membership, shall constitute the University. (3) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and shall sue and be sued bythe said name. (4) The headquarters of the University shall be at Agartala.

On and from the date of commencement of thisAct, (a) any reference to the Tripura University in any contract or other instrument shall be deemed asa reference to the University; (b) all property, movable and immovable, of or belonging to the Tripura University shall vest inthe University; (c) all rights and liabilities of the Tripura University shall be transferred to, and be the rights andliabilities of, the University; (d) every person employed by the Tripura University immediately before the commencement ofthis Act shall hold his office or service in the University by the same tenure, at the same remunerationand upon the same terms and conditions and with the same rights and privileges as to pension, leave,gratuity, provident fund and other matters as he would have held the same if this Act had not beenenacted, and shall continue to do so unless and until his employment is terminated or until suchtenure, remuneration and terms and conditions are duly altered by the Statutes: Provided that if the alteration so made is not acceptable to such employee, his employment maybe terminated by the University in accordance with the term of the contract with the employee or, ifno provision is made therein in this behalf, on payment to him by the University of compensationequivalent to three months' remuneration in case of permanent employees and one month'sremuneration in the case of other employees: Provided further that every person employed before the commencement of this Act, pending theexecution of a contract under section 36, shall be deemed to have been appointed in accordance withthe provisions of a contract consistent with the provisions of this Act and the Statutes: Provided also that any reference, by whatever form of words, to the Vice-Chancellor and ProVice-Chancellorof the Tripura University in any law for the time being in force, or in any instrumentor other document, shall be construed as a reference respectively to the Vice-Chancellor and the ProVice-Chancellorof the University; (e) the Vice-Chancellor of the Tripura University, appointed under the provisions of the TripuraUniversity Act, 1987 (Tripura Act 11 of 1987) shall be deemed to have been appointed as the ViceChancellorunder this Act, and shall hold office for a period of three months or till such time the firstVice-Chancellor is appointed under section 47 of the Act, whichever is earlier; and (f) all Colleges, Institutions, Faculties and Departments affiliated to, or admitted to the privilegesof, or maintained by, the Tripura University shall stand affiliated to, or admitted to the privilege of, ormaintained by, the University.

The objects of the University shall be to disseminate and advanceknowledge by providing instructional and research facilities in such branches of learning as it may deemfit; to make provisions for integrated courses in humanities, natural and physical sciences, social sciences,forestry and other allied disciplines in the educational programmes of the University; to make specialprovisions for studies in tribal life and culture; to take appropriate measures for promoting innovations inteaching-learning process, inter-disciplinary studies and research; to educate and train manpower for thedevelopment of the State of Tripura; and to pay special attention to the improvement of the social andeconomic conditions and welfare of the people of that State, their intellectual, academic and culturaldevelopment.