Rajasthan Agricultural University Act, 1962
No: 18 Dated: Jun, 12 1962
Rajasthan Agricultural University Act, 1962
(Act No. 18 of 1962)
An Act To establish and incorporate an Agricultural University in the State of Rajasthan for the development of Agriculture.
Be it enacted by the Rajasthan State Legislature in the Thirteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows: -
1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Rajasthan Agricultural University Act, 1962.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Rajasthan.
(3) It shall come into force at once.
2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless the subject or context requires otherwise,
(a) "Academic Council" means the Academic Council of the University;
(b) "agriculture" means the basic and applied science of soil and water management, crop and livestock production and management, home science and betterment of the people;
(c) "Board" means the Board of Control of the University.
(d) "College" means a college of the University and, where a college has more campuses than one, includes each of such campuses;
(e) "Faculty" means a Faculty of the University;
(f) "Prescribed" means prescribed by the Statutes of the University;
(g) "Registered graduate" means a graduate registered under the provisions of this Act;
(h) "Statutes" and "Regulations" mean respectively the statutes and regulation of the University made under this Act;
(i) "Student of the University", means a person enrolled in the University for taking a course of study for degree, diploma or other academic distinction duly instituted;
(j) "Teacher" means a person appointed or recognized by the University for the purpose of imparting instruction or conducting and guiding research or extension programmes and includes a person who may be declared by the Statutes to be a teacher;
(k) "University" means the Rajasthan Agricultural University.
3. The University. - (1) The Chancellor, the first Vice-Chancellor of the University and the first Chairman and members of the Board of Control and all persons who may hereafter become such officers or members, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of the Rajasthan Agricultural University.
(2) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, shall have power to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of property, movable and immovable, including trust property and endowments, for the purposes of the University and shall sue and be sued by its corporate name.
4. Seat of University. - The principal seat of the University shall be at Udaipur.
5. Objects of the University. - The University shall be deemed to have been established and incorporated for the purposes, among others, of -
i. making provision for imparting education in different branches of study, particularly agriculture, animal science, rural industry, agricultural engineering, veterinary science, home science and other allied subjects;
ii. furthering the prosecution of research, particularly in agriculture and other allied sciences;
iii. undertaking extension programmers relating to the aforesaid sciences.
6. University admission. - The University shall, subject to the provisions of this Act and the Statutes, be open to all persons but nothing in this section shall be deemed to require the University to admit to any course of study students larger in number than, or with academic or other qualifications lower than, those prescribed.
7. Powers of the university. - The University shall have the following powers, namely: -
(a) To provide for instruction in agriculture, animal science, rural industry, agricultural engineering, veterinary science, home science and other allied sciences and in such other branches of learning as the university may deem fit,
(b) to make provision for (1) research, and (2) advancement of knowledge and dissemination of the findings of research and knowledge through extension programmers,
(c) to institute and confer degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions in the manner and under conditions laid down in the Statutes,
(d) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner and under conditions laid down in the Statutes,
(e) to provide lectures and instruction for field workers, village leaders and other persons not enrolled as regular students of the University and to grant certificates to them as may be prescribed,
(f) to co-operate with other Universities and authorities in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine,
(g) to institute teaching, research and extension posts required by the University and to appoint persons to such posts in the prescribed manner,
(h) to create administrative, ministerial and other necessary posts and make appointments thereto,
(i) to institute and award fellowships (including travelling fellowships), scholarships and prizes in accordance with the Statutes,
(j) to institute and maintain residential accommodation for the students of the University,
(k) to demand and receive such fees and other charges as may be prescribed,
(l) to supervise and control the residential accommodation for students and to regulate the discipline of the students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health and welfare, and
(m) 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.