The Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University Act, 2013

(1) This Act may be called the Rajiv Gandhi National AviationUniversity Act, 2013. (2) It shall come into force on such date1as the Central Government may, by notification in theOfficial Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act.

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) "Board of Schools" means the Board of Schools of the University; (d) "Campus" means the unit established or constituted by the University for makingarrangements for instruction, research, education and training; (e) "Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor" mean, respectively, the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor ofthe University; (f) "College" means a college maintained by or admitted to the privileges of the University forimparting education and training in aviation studies or in its associated disciplines; (g) "Court" means the Court of the University; (h) "Dean of School" means an administrative officer in charge of a college, faculty or a Divisionin a University; (i) "Department" means a Department of Studies and includes a Centre of Studies; (j) "Director General" means the Director General of Civil Aviation; (k) "Distance Education System" means the system of imparting education through any means ofcommunication, such as broadcasting, telecasting, internet, correspondence courses, seminars, contactprogrammes, e-learning or the combination of such means; (l) "employee" means any person appointed by the University and includes teachers and otherstaff of the University; (m) "Executive Council" means the Executive Council of the University; (n) "Finance Committee" means the Finance Committee of the University; (o) "Hall" means a unit of residence for the students of the University or of a College or anInstitution maintained by the University; (p) "Institution" means an institution, school, college or centre of studies maintained by oradmitted to the privileges of the University for imparting education, training and research in aviationstudies or in its associated disciplines; (q) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (r) "off-shore Campus" means an institution, college, centres, school or campus of the Universityestablished outside the country; (s) "principal" means the head of a college or an institution; (t) "recognised Institution" means an institution admitted to the privileges of the University forimparting education in aviation studies or its associated disciplines; (u) "recognised teachers" means such persons as are recognised by the University for the purposeof imparting instructions in a college or an institution admitted to the privileges of the University; (v) "school" means a School of Studies of the University; (w) "Statutes", "Ordinances" and "Regulations" mean, respectively, the Statutes, the Ordinancesand the Regulations of the University made under this Act; (x) "teachers of the University" means Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors,Readers, Senior Lecturers, Lecturers and such other persons as may be appointed or recognised forimparting instruction or conducting research in the University or in any college or institutionmaintained by the University or for giving guidance to students for any course of study of theUniversity are designated as teachers by the Statutes; (y) "University" means the National Aviation University established under this Act; (z) "University Grants Commission" means the Commission established under section 4 of theUniversity Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956).

(1) There shall be established a University by the name of RajivGandhi National Aviation University. (2) The headquarters of the University shall be at Fursatganj in the District of Raebareli in the State ofUttar Pradesh. (3) The University may establish or maintain campuses and centres at such other places within itsjurisdiction as it may deem fit. (4) The first Chancellor, the first Vice-Chancellor, the first members of the Court, the ExecutiveCouncil, the Academic Council, and all persons who may hereafter become such officers or members, solong as they continue to hold such office or membership, shall constitute the University. (5) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal with power, subject to theprovisions of this Act, to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to contract, and shall by that name,sue and be sued. (6) The University shall be a teaching, research and affiliating Aviation University.

The objects of the University shall be, (i) to facilitate and promote aviation studies, teaching, training, research and extension work withfocus on emerging areas of studies such as aviation management, aviation regulation and policy,aviation history, aviation science and engineering, aviation law, aviation safety and security, aviation medicine, search and rescue, transportation of dangerous goods, environmental studies and otherrelated fields, and also to achieve excellence in these and connected fields in emerging areas and suchareas as may emerge in future; (ii) to promote advanced knowledge by providing institutional and research facilities in suchbranches of learning as it may deem fit and to make provisions for integrated courses in management,science and other key and frontier areas of technology and allied disciplines in the educationalprogrammes of the University; (iii) to create an ambience for learning and scholarship in aviation technology; (iv) to take appropriate measures for ensuring and regulating the quality of aviation educationprogrammes in India offered by recognised institutions; (v) to develop academic standards of an international level and undertake other measures as itmay deemed fit, to facilitate the development for skilled aviation man power including the licensedcategory of aviation personnel; (vi) to develop various programmers for airlines, airport, aviation authorities and staff rangingfrom airline management and marketing, airport management, regulations and aviation law, aviationsafety and security or any other programme and train manpower in aviation field; (vii) to take appropriate measures for promoting innovations in teaching-learning process,undertake inter-disciplinary studies and research.

(1) The University shall have the following powers, namely: (i) to provide for instructions in the aviation related natural sciences, social sciences, humanities,engineering, technology and medicine or as the University may, from time to time, determine and tomake provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge; (ii) to recognise aviation training colleges and institutes and to make provisions for recognising ofsuch colleges and institutions, maintenance of standards and to undertake special studies; (iii) to establish and maintain campuses, departments, laboratories, libraries, museums, centres ofresearch, training and specialised studies; (iv) to establish and maintain hostel, health centres and other related facilities like auditoria,playgrounds, gymnasiums, swimming pools and training facilities; (v) to establish linkages and collaborate with any other college or University, research institution,industry association, professional or any other organisations in India or outside India to conceptualise,design and develop specific programmes on aviation as part of education and research, trainingprogrammes and exchange programmes for students, academic staff and others; (vi) to provide for establishment of campuses, colleges and Institutions for serving a group ofrecognised colleges and to provide for and maintain commoner source centres in such campuses inthe form of libraries, laboratories, computer centres and the like centres of learning; (vii) to prepare educational programmes or courses leading to award of Diploma, Degree, PostGraduate Degrees in the field of civil aviation; (viii) to grant, subject to such conditions as the University may determine, degrees includingdoctoral degrees, diplomas or certificates other than Certificates of Competencies of licensed aviationpersonnel, which shall continue to be issued by Director General of Civil Aviation, Government ofIndia till the Central Government otherwise decides, and confer degrees and other academicdistinctions on the basis of examinations, evaluation or any other method of testing on persons, and towithdraw any such degrees including doctoral degrees, diplomas, certificates, or other academicdistinctions for good and sufficient cause; (ix) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner prescribed by the Statutes; (x) to organise and to undertake extra-mural studies, training and extension services; (xi) to institute Directorships, Principalships, Professorships, Associate Professorships, AssistantProfessorships and other teaching or academic positions, required by the University and to appointpersons to such Principalships, Professorships, Associate Professorships, Assistant Professorships oracademic positions; (xii) to provide for the terms and conditions of service of Directors, Principals and teachers andother members of the academic staff appointed by the University; (xiii) to appoint persons working in any other University or organisation as teachers of theUniversity for a specified period; (xiv) to recognise an institution of higher learning for such purposes as the University maydetermine and to withdraw such recognition; (xv) to organise and conduct refresher courses, workshops, seminars and other programmes forteachers, evaluators and other academic staff; (xvi) 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; (xvii) to create teaching, non-teaching, administrative, ministerial and other posts in theUniversity and to make appointments thereto; (xviii) to co-operate or collaborate or associate with any other University or authority orinstitution of higher learning within India or located outside the country, in such manner and for suchpurposes as the University may determine; (xix) to approve appointment of persons for imparting instructions in any institution admitted tothe privileges of the University and to withdraw such approval; (xx) to inspect recognised institutions through suitable machinery established for the purpose, andto take measures to ensure that proper standards of instruction, teaching and training are maintainedby them, and adequate library, laboratory, hospital, workshop and other academic facilities areprovided for; (xxi) to coordinate the work of different colleges and institutions working in the same and similarareas; (xxii) to set up facilities like computer centre, training centre, instrumentation centre, library,simulators or other units for research and instruction as are, in the opinion of the University,necessary for the furtherance of its objects; (xxiii) to set up curriculum development centres for different subjects; (xxiv) to admit to its privileges colleges and institutions, not maintained by the University, and towithdraw all or any of those privileges in accordance with such conditions as may be prescribed bythe Statutes; (xxv) to recognise guide, supervise and control Halls not maintained by the University and otheraccommodation for students, and to withdraw any such recognition; (xxvi) to make provision for research and advisory services and for that purpose, to enter intosuch arrangements with other institutions or bodies as the University may deem necessary; (xxvii) to determine standards of admission to the University, which may include examination,evaluation or any other method of testing; (xxviii) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, studentships, assistantships, medals andprizes; (xxix) to demand and receive payment of fees and other charges; (xxx) to supervise the residences of the students of the University and to make arrangements forpromoting their health and general welfare; (xxxi) to make such special arrangements in respect of women students as the University mayconsider desirable; (xxxii) to regulate the conduct of the students of the University; (xxxiii) to control and regulate admission of students for various courses of study in Departments,recognised institutions, schools and centres of studies; (xxxiv) to regulate the work and conduct of the employees of the University; (xxxv) to regulate and enforce discipline among the employees and students of the University andto take such disciplinary measures in this regard as may be deemed necessary; (xxxvi) to make arrangements for promoting the health and general welfare of the employees ofthe University; (xxxvii) to receive benefactions, donations and gifts from persons and to name after them suchchairs, institutions, buildings and the like, the University may determine, whose gift or donation tothe University is worth such amount as the University may decide; (xxxviii) to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of any property, movable or immovable, includingtrust and endowment properties for the purposes of the University; (xxxix) to borrow, with the approval of the Central Government, on the security of the property ofthe University, money for the purposes of the University; (xl) to assess needs of the students in terms of subjects, fields of specialisation, levels ofeducation and training of technical manpower, both on short and long term basis, and to initiatenecessary programmers to meet these needs; (xli) to initiate measures to enlist the co-operation of the industry to provide complementaryfacilities; (xlii) to provide for instruction through distance learning and open approach and for mobilityof students from the non-formal open learning stream to the formal stream and vice versa; (xliii) to establish such campuses, special centres, specialised laboratories or other units forresearch and instruction as are, in the opinion of the University, necessary for the furtherance of itsobjective; (xliv) to confer autonomous status on a college or an institution or a Department, as the case maybe, in accordance with the Statutes; (xlv) to arrange for the training to upgrade aviation standard of the employees of the industry andinstitutes and to levy fees for such training as prescribed by the Statutes; (xlvi) to establish off-shore Campus at any place outside the Country as and when it is considerednecessary for advancing the aims and objects of the University; and (xlvii) to do all such other acts and things as may be necessary, incidental or conducive to theattainment of all or any of its objects. (2) In exercising its powers referred to in sub-section (1), it shall be the endeavour of the Universityto maintain an international character and highest possible standards of teaching and research.