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Section 9

Powers of a Corresponding University.

The Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970
Each corresponding University shall have the following powers, namely:--

(a) to provide for graduate and post-graduate instructions in agriculture, veterinary and animal sciences, agricultural engineering, home sciences and other allied sciences and in such other branches of learning as the University may deem fit;

(b) to make provision for instructions in applied fields, research and the dissemination of the findings of research and technical information through an extension education programme;

(c) to institute degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions;

(d) to hold examinations and to grant and confer degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions to and on persons who shall have--

(i) pursued a prescribed course of study; or

(ii) carried out research in the University, or in an institution recognised in this behalf by the University, under the prescribed conditions;

(e) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the prescribed manner and under the prescribed conditions;

(f) to provide lectures and instructions for field workers, village leaders and other persons not enrolled as regular students of the University and to grant certificates to them when deemed desirable;

(g) to co-operate with other Universities and authorities in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine;

(h) to institute teaching, research and extension education posts required by the University and to appoint persons to such posts;

(i) to create administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointments thereto;

(j) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships and prizes in accordance with the Statutes;

(k) to institute and maintain residential accommodation for students of the University;

(l) to supervise and control the residential accommodation and to regulate the discipline of the students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health and welfare;

(m) to institute and receive such fees and other charges as may prescribed; and

(n) to do all such acts and things, whether incidental to the powers aforesaid or not, as may be requisite in order to further the objects of the University.