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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 theExecutive 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.