The English and Foreign Languages University Act, 2006

(1) This Act may be called the English and Foreign LanguagesUniversityAct, 2006. (2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in theOfficial Gazette, appoint.

In this Act, and in all Statutes made hereunder, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (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) "Board of Studies" means the Board of Studies of the University; (d) "Chancellor", "Vice-Chancellor" and "Pro-Vice-Chancellor" mean, respectively, theChancellor, Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University; (e) "College" means a College maintained by the University; (f) "Court" means the Court of the University; (g) "Department" means a Department of Studies and includes a Centre of Studies; (h) "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; (i) "employee" means any person appointed by the University and includes teachers and otherstaff of the University; (j) "Executive Council" means the Executive Council of the University; (k) "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; (l) "Institution" means an academic institution, not being a College, maintained by the University; (m) "Principal" means the head of a College or an Institution and includes where there is noPrincipal, the person for the time being duly appointed to act as Principal, and, in the absence of thePrincipal or the acting Principal, a Vice-Principal duly appointed as such; (n) "recognised institution" means an institution of higher learning recognised by the University; (o) "recognised teachers" means persons working in any recognised institution and recognised bythe University for the purpose of imparting instruction or conducting research or both; (p) "School" means a School of Studies of the University; (q) "Statutes", "Ordinances" and "Regulations" mean, respectively, the Statutes, Ordinances andRegulations of the University for the time being in force; (r) "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; (s) "University" means the Central Institute of English, Hyderabad Society founded by theCentral Government at Hyderabad in 1958 as a Society registered under the Hyderabad SocietyRegistration Act, 1350 (Act 1 of 1350 Fasli) which was renamed as Central Institute of English andForeign Languages, Hyderabad Society in 1972 and declared in 1973 as an Institution deemed to be aUniversity under section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956);and which isincorporated as a university under this Act.

(1) There shall be established, in the State of Andhra Pradesh,a University by the name of "The English and Foreign Languages University". (2) The headquarters of the University shall be at Hyderabad, campuses at Lucknow and Shillong;and it may establish campuses at such other places as it may deem fit. (3) 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. (4) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and shall sue and be sued bythe said name.

On and from thecommencement of this Act,-- (i) the Society known as the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, HyderabadSociety, shall be dissolved, and all properties, movable or immovable, and all rights, powers andprivileges of the said Society shall be transferred to and vest in the University and shall be applied tothe objects and purposes for which the University is established; (ii) all debts, liabilities and obligations of the said Society shall be transferred to the Universityand shall thereafter be discharged and satisfied by it; (iii) all references in any enactment to the said Society shall be construed as references to theUniversity; (iv) any will, deed or other document, whether made or executed before or after thecommencement of this Act, which contains any bequest, gift or trust in favour of the said Societyshall be construed as if the University was therein named instead of the Society; (v) subject to the provisions of this Act, every person employed immediately before thecommencement of this Act in the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad,shall hold such employment in the University by the same tenure and on the same terms andconditions and with the same rights and privileges as to pension and gratuity as he would have heldunder the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, if this Act had not beenpassed.

The objects of the University shall be to disseminate and advanceknowledge by providing instructional, research and extension facilities in the teaching of English andForeign Languages and Literature in India; to train language teachers in methods and approachesappropriate to the Indian context; to provide expertise in language and teacher education to foreignprofessionals; to evolve indigenous ways of testing of languages proficiency; to make provisions for innovative teaching-learning materials in both print and electronic media; to take appropriate measuresfor inter-disciplinary studies and research in Literary and Cultural Studies; and to develop criticalintercultural understanding of the civilizations.