[Assam] Govt introduces Bill on tech varsity (The Assam Tribune, 09.12.2009)

[Buljit Buragohain]

Govt introduces Bill on tech varsity

Staff Reporter
 GUWAHATI,
Dec 8 – The State Government has tabled a Bill to establish an
affiliating university of science and technology in Guwahati. The Assam
Science and Technology University Bill, 2009, states that it seeks to
establish a university exclusively for science and technical education
by the name of ‘Assam Science and Technical University’ in Guwahati to
boost science and technical education in the State, more precisely in
the NE region.


The university will be affiliating in nature. All the engineering
institutions offering degree and diploma in various branches of
engineering in the State, including the private sector ones, shall be
affiliated to it.


The university shall have its Court, Executive Council, Academic
Council, Postgraduate Board, Undergraduate Board, Finance Committee,
Selection Committee and such other authorities as may be declared by
the statutes to be the authorities ofthe university, states the Bill.


The Governor of Assam shall be the chancellor of the university,
while its Vice-Chancellor shall be appointed by the Chancellor on the
recommendation of an Advisory Board constituted by the Chancellor for
the purpose.


This Advisory Board will consist of three members of whom one shall
be nominated by the State Government, one member to be nominated by the
Chancellor and the rest one to be elected by the Executive Council. The
Chancellor shall also appoint one of them as chairman of the Board.


The Vice-Chancellor shall be the principal executive and academic
officer of the university. He shall be the ex-officio chairman of the
Executive Council, the Academic Council, the Postgraduate Board, the
Undergraduate Board, the Finance Committee and the Selection Committee.


He shall preside over all the meetings of the court and also the
convocation, in the absence of the Chancellor. He shall be entitled to
be present at and to address any meeting of any authority or committee
ofthe university.


The Vice-Chancellor shall have the powers of convening the meeting
of the Court, the Executive Council, the Postgraduate Board, the
Undergraduate Board, the Finance Committee and the Selection Committee,
whenever he finds it necessary.


However, the decision of the Chancellor on “whether any person has
duly been elected, appointed, chosen or nominated as, or is entitled to
be, a member of any authority or body ofthe University or whether any
decision of any of the authorities or bodies or of the Vice-Chancellor
of the University is in conformity with this Act,… shall be final.”


The Postgraduate Board, among others, shall have the power to
recommend to the Academic Council, the pattern of postgraduate courses,
the examination to be held for such courses and for their revision. It
shall also have the power to approve the curricula and syllabi for the
post-graduate courses and to modify them whenever needed.


It shall also have the power to make recommendations to the
Executive Council for the institution of posts of teachers required for
the postgraduate courses under the university and for the recognition
of persons as teachers for any other course, and regarding their
emoluments, duties and terms and conditions of their services.


Similarly, the Undergraduate Board shall have the power to
recommend to the Academic Council the pattern of courses and
examinations for the undergraduate courses and the revision thereof.

It
too shall have the power to make recommendations to the Executive
Council for the institution of professorships, readerships,
lecturerships or other posts of teachers required for the undergraduate
courses in the colleges and for the recognition of person as teachers
for such courses and regarding their emoluments, duties and terms and
conditions of services, the Bill states.


 (The Assam Tribune, 09.12.2009)



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