The Central Sanskrit Universities Act, 2020

(1) This Act may be called the Central Sanskrit Universities Act, 2020. (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 bythe Statutes and Ordinances made thereunder; (c) Board of Studies means the Board of Studies of a Department of the University; (d) Campus means any unit established or constituted by the University at any placewithin or outside India for making arrangements for instruction, research, education and training in Sanskrit and includes an existing Campus established by the University prior to thecommencement of this Act; (e) Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor mean, respectively, the Chancellor and the Vice Chancellor of the University; (f) College means a College recognised or affiliated or maintained by the University; (g) corresponding University and deemed to be University, in relation to the societyknown as-- (i) the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi, mean the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, NewDelhi established in the year 1970 which has been conferred the status of deemed to beUniversity in the year 2002; (ii) Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, New Delhi, mean Shri LalBahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, New Delhi established in the year 1962which has been conferred the status of deemed to be University in the year 1987; (iii) the Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Tirupati, mean the Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth,Tirupati established in the year 1961 which has been conferred the status of deemed to beUniversity in the year 1987; (h) Court means the Court of the University; (i) Department means a Department of Studies and includes a Centre of Studies; (j) Director means the Head of a Campus or of a distance education system of the Universityor of any other academic branch of studies as approved by the Executive Council and prescribed bythe Statutes; (k) distance education system means the system of imparting education through any meansof communication, such as broadcasting, telecasting, internet, correspondence course, seminar,contact programme, non-formal pattern or a combination of any two or more such means, exceptthe regular system of education; (l) employee means any person appointed by the University on regular basis and includesteaching and non-teaching staff, but does not include an employee of any institution or college orschool getting grant-in-aid to any extent whatsoever, or affiliated or recognised, by theUniversity; (m) Executive Council means the Executive Council of the University; (n) Faculty means a faculty of the University; (o) Hall means a unit of residence or of corporate life, being hostel or otherwise, for the students,authorities, officers and employees of the University, or of a Campus or College or Institution orCentre or Department, maintained or authorised by the University; (p) Institution means an academic institution, not being a Campus or College established ormaintained or affiliated or recognised by the University; (q) Principal means the Head of a College or School or an Institution established ormaintained by the University; (r) Regulations means the Regulations made by any authority of the University under this Actfor the time being in force; (s) Sanskrit means the Sanskrit language, in modern, classical or ancient form, and theknowledge available therein or related thereto, in addition to Sanskrit language; (t) Schedulemeans a Schedule appended to this Act; (u) School means a School recognised or affiliated or maintained by the University forsecondary, primary and elementary levels or equivalent thereto; (v) School of Studies means a School of Studies of the University; (w) Societymeans any of the following societies registered under the Societies RegistrationAct, 1860 (21 of 1860), namely-- (i) the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi (Regulation No. S/4694 of 1970-71); (ii) Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, New Delhi (Registration No. S17454 of 1987); (iii) the Rashtriy Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Tirupati (Registraion No. 345 of 1986); (x) Statutes and Ordinances mean, respectively, the Statutes and the Ordinances of theUniversity for the time being in force; (y) teachers of the University means Professors, Associate Professors, AssistantProfessors and such other persons as may be appointed for imparting instructions or conductingresearch in the University or in any College or Institution maintained by the University and aredesignated as teachers by the Ordinances, but does not include the teaching staff of an institutionor a college or school getting grant-in-aid to any extent whatsoever, or affiliated or recognised, by the University; (z) University means a University established and incorporated as a University under this Act.

(1) The following deemed to be Universities shall beestablished as three separate Central Universities as under: (a) the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi, along with its campuses as specified in theFirst Schedule, shall be established as a body corporate under this Act by the name of “the CentralSanskrit University”,which shall have its headquarters in New Delhi; (b) Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya SanskritVidyapeeth, New Delhishall be established as abody corporate under this Act by the name of “Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National SanskritUniversity”, which shall have its headquarters in New Delhi; (c) the Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Tirupati shall be established as a body corporate underthis Act by the name of “the National Sanskrit University”, which shall have its headquarters inTirupati. (2) The Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor and the members of the Executive Council and of theAcademic Council of each University, and all persons who may here after become such officers ormembers, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership, are hereby constituted a bodycorporate by the name of the University. (3) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall sue and be suedby the said name.

On and from the date of commencement of thisAct, (a) the societies, namely, the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi, Shri Lal Bahadur ShastriRashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, New Delhi and the Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Tirupati shallstand dissolved; (b) any reference to a society or to a deemed to be University in any law (other than this Act)or in any contract or other instrument shall be deemed as a reference to the correspondingUniversity established and incorporated under this Act; (c) all properties, movable and immovable, of or belonging to a society or to a deemed to beUniversity shall vest in the corresponding University established and incorporated under this Act; (d) all rights and liabilities of a society or of a deemed to be University shall be transferred to,and be the rights and liabilities of, the corresponding University established and incorporatedunder this Act; (e) every person employed by a society or a deemed to be University immediately before suchcommencement shall hold his office or service in the corresponding University established andincorporated under this Act, by the same tenure, at the same remuneration and upon the sameterms and conditions and with the same rights and privileges as to pension, leave, gratuity,provident fund and other matters as they would have held the same if this Act had not been enactedand shall continue to do so unless and until their employment is terminated or until suchtenure, remuneration and terms and conditions are duly altered by the Executive Council or theStatutes: Provided that if the alteration so made is not acceptable to such employee, his employmentmay be terminated by the University in accordance with the term of the contract with the employee or, if no provision is made therein in this behalf, on payment to him by theUniversity of compensation equivalent to three months' remuneration in case of permanentemployees and one month's remuneration 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 34, 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 of adeemed to be University in any law for the time being in force, or in any contract or other document,shall be construed as a reference to the Vice-Chancellor of the corresponding Universityestablished and incorporated under this Act; (f) the Vice-Chancellor of a deemed to be University appointed prior to the commencement of thisAct and holding office as such, shall be deemed to have been appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of thecorresponding University under this Act; (g) all Colleges, Institutions, Schools of Studies, and Departments affiliated to, or admitted to theprivileges of, or maintained by, the deemed to be University shall stand affiliated to, or admitted to theprivilege of, or maintained by, the corresponding University established and incorporated under thisAct.

The objects of the University shall be to disseminate and advanceknowledge by providing instructional, research and extension facilities to the promotion of SanskritLanguage and such other branches of learning as it may deem fit; to make special provisions forintegrated courses in humanities, social sciences and science in its educational programmes; to takeappropriate measures for promoting innovations in teaching-learning process and inter-disciplinarystudies and research; to educate and train manpower for the overall development, promotion,preservation and research in the field of Sanskrit and Sanskrit traditional subjects.