Indira Gandhi University, Meerpur Act, 2013
No: 29 Dated: Nov, 26 2013
INDIRA GANDHI UNIVERSITY, MEERPUR ACT, 2013
An Act to establish and incorporate a (teaching-cum-affiliating University) at Meerpur to facilitate and promote higher education with special emphasis in emerging areas of Information Technology and Computer Education, Commerce, Humanities, Management Studies, and also to achieve excellence in these and connected fields.
BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Haryana in the Sixty -fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1 (1) This Act may be called Indira Gandhi University, Meerpur Act, 2013
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint
2 In this Act and in all Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations made there under unless the context otherwise requiresDefinitions
(a) “college” means a college maintained by, or admitted to the privileges of, the University under this Act;
(b) “employee" means any person appointed by the University, and includes teachers and all other staff of the University;
(c) “Government” means the Government of the State of Haryana;
(d) “institution” means an academic institution, not being a college, maintained by, or admitted to the privilege of the University;
(e) “principal” means the head of a college, and includes, when there is no principal, a viceprincipal duly appointed as such and in the absence of the principal or the vice-principal the person for the time being duly appointed to act as the principal;
(f) “recognised teachers” mean such persons as are approved by the University for the purpose of imparting instruction in a college or an institution admitted to the privileges of the University;
(g) “Statutes”, “Ordinances” and “Regulations” mean respectively the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations of the University made under This Act;
(h) “University” means Indira Gandhi University, Meerpur as incorporated under this Act; and
(i) “University teachers” mean professors, associate professor, assistant professor and such other persons as may be appointed for imparting instructions or conducting research in the University or in any college or institution maintained by the University and are designated as teachers by the Ordinances.
3 (1) There shall continue to be a body corporate by the name of Indira Gandhi University, Meerpur comprising of the Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor of the University, and the members of the Court, the Executive Council and the Academic Council and all persons, who may hereafter become or be appointed as such officers or members, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership.
(2) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to contract, and may by the said name sue or be sued