Section 46. Transitional provisions

46. Transitional provisions.— Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act and the Statutes, — (a) the first Chancellor and the first Vice-Chancellor shall be appointed by the Visitor and each of the said officers shall hold office for a term of three years; (b) the first Registrar and the first Finance Officer shall be appointed by the Visitor on the recommendation of the Vice-Chancellor and each of the said officers shall hold office for a term of two years; (c) the first Court and the first Executive Council shall consist of not more than fifteen members, who shall be nominated by the Visitor and they shall hold office for a term of two years; (d) (i) the first Planning Board shall consist of not more than fifteen members, who shall be nominated by the Visitor out of a panel submitted by the Vice-Chancellor and they shall hold office for a term of two years; and (ii) the first Planning Board shall, in addition to the powers and functions conferred on it by this Act, exercise the powers of the Academic Council, until the Academic Council is constituted under the provisions of this Act and the Statutes, and in the exercise of such powers, the Planning Board may co-opt such members as it may decide: 46. Equivalence Committee.— (1) Keeping in view the outstanding nature of qualification in maritime discipline, Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, Government of India constituted an "Equivalence Committee" with a view to consider relativity of the existing teaching posts in four Government Maritime Institutes (Marine Engineering and Research Institute, Kolkata and Mumbai, Lal Bahadur Shastri College of Advanced Maritime Studies and Research, Mumbai, Training Ship Chanakya, Navi Mumbai), presently under Indian Institute of Maritime Studies with equivalent posts in the proposed University. The recommendation of the committee is given in the Table below: TABLE Provided that if any vacancy occurs in the above offices or authorities, the same shall be filled by appointment or nomination, as the case may be, by the Visitor, and the person so appointed or nominated shall hold office for so long as the officer or member in whose place he is appointed or nominated would have held that office, if such vacancy had not occurred. ||TABLE|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||(1)|||(2)||||| |Name of the present|posts and pay scale and|Recommendation||by|the|'Equivalence||| |recruitment rules as per the Gazette notification||Committee'|for|recognition||of|post|in| |||University||||||| |Captain Superintendent/Principal/ Director||Professor||||||| |(Rs.18400-500-22400)||||||||| |Vice Principal/Deputy/Chief Officer/Senior Engineer||Associate Professor||||||| |Officer/Senior Nautical Officer||||||||| |(Rs.14300-400-18300)||||||||| |Engineer Officer/Nautical Officer||Assistant Professor||||||| |(Rs.12000-375-16500)||||||||| |Senior Lecturer||Assistant Professor||||||| |(Rs.12000-375-16500)||||||||| |Senior Lecturer (MERI)||Senior Lecturer||||||| |(Rs.10000-325-15000)||||||||| |Lecturer||Lecturer||||||| |(Rs.8000-275-13500)||||||||| (2) In the absence of Post-graduate and Doctoral studies in maritime discipline, the existing posts in the Institutes are deemed to be equivalent to the University posts in the appropriate scale. (3) The qualifications for future direct recruitments shall be governed by separate Ordinances to be framed by the University.