Section 5. Registrars

5. Registrars.— (1) Every Registrar shall be appointed by the Executive Council on the recommendation of a Selection Committee constituted for the purpose and shall be a whole-time salaried officer of the University: Provided that a nominee of the Court shall also be included in the Selection Committee. (2) He shall be appointed for a term of five years and shall be eligible for reappointment for one more term. (3) The emoluments and other terms and conditions of service of the Registrar shall be such as may be prescribed by the Ordinances: Provided that the Registrar shall retire on attaining the age of sixty-two years. (4) When the office of the Registrar is vacant or when the Registrar is, by reason of illness, absence, or any other cause, unable to perform the duties of his office, the duties of the office shall be performed by such person as the Vice-Chancellor may appoint for the purpose. (5) (a) The Registrar shall have power to take disciplinary action against such of the employees, excluding teachers and academic staff, as may be specified in the order of the Executive Council and to suspend them pending inquiry, to administer warnings to them or to impose upon them the penalty of censure or the withholding of increment: Provided that no such penalty shall be imposed unless the person concerned has been given a reasonable opportunity of showing cause against the action proposed to be taken in regard to him. (b) An appeal shall lie to the Vice-Chancellor against any order of the Registrar imposing any of the penalties specified in sub-clause (a). (c) In a case where the inquiry discloses that a punishment beyond the power of the Registrar is called for, the Registrar shall, upon conclusion of the inquiry, make a report to the Vice-Chancellor along with his recommendations: Provided that an appeal shall lie to the Executive Council against an order of the Vice-Chancellor imposing any penalty on an employee. (6) The Executive Council shall designate any Registrar to act ex officio in one or more of the following capacities, namely: — (i) Secretary to the Court; (ii) Secretary to the Executive Council; (iii) Secretary to the Academic Council; (iv) Secretary to the Board of Affiliation and Recognition; and (v) Secretary to the Planning Board. - (7) It shall be the duty of the Registrar so designated in relation to the authority concerned to — (a) be the custodian of the records, the common seal and such other property of the University as the Executive Council shall commit to his charge; (b) issue all notices convening meetings of that authority and the Committees appointed by it; (c) keep the minutes of all the meetings of that authority and the Committees appointed by it; (d) conduct the official correspondence of the Court, the Executive Council, the Academic Council, the Planning Board and the Board of Affiliation and Recognition; (e) arrange for and superintend the examinations of the University in accordance with the manner prescribed by the Ordinances; (f) supply to the Visitor copies of the agenda of meetings of the authorities of the University as soon as they are issued; and the minutes of such meetings; (g) represent the University in suits or proceedings by or against the University, sign powers-ofattorney and verify pleadings or depute his representative for the purpose; and (h) perform such other duties as may be specified in the Statutes, the Ordinances or the Regulations or as may be required, from time to time, by the Executive Council or the ViceChancellor. (xix) to prescribe fees and other charges to be levied on the students of self-financing colleges and institutions; (xx) to coordinate the work of different colleges and institutions working in the same and similar areas; (xxi) to set up central facilities like computer centre, training centre, instrumentation centre, library, simulators; (xxii) to set up curriculum development centres for different subjects; (xxiii) to admit to its privileges colleges and institutions, not maintained by the University, and to withdraw all or any of those privileges in accordance with such conditions as may be prescribed by the Statutes; (xxiv) to recognise guide, supervise and control Halls not maintained by the University and other accommodation for students, and to withdraw any such recognition; (xxv) to make provision for research and advisory services and for that purpose, to enter into such arrangements with other institutions or bodies as the University may deem necessary; (xxvi) to prescribe fees for recognising of colleges and institutions; (xxvii) to determine standards of admission to the University which may include examination, evaluation or any other method of testing; (xxviii) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, studentships, assistantships, medals and prizes; (xxix) to demand and receive payment of fees and other charges; (xxx) to supervise the residences of the students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health and general welfare; (xxxi) to make such special arrangements in respect of women students as the University may consider desirable; (xxxii) to regulate the conduct of the students of the University and of colleges and institutions; (xxxiii) to control and regulate admission of students for various courses of study in Departments, recognised institutions, schools and centres of studies; (xxxiv) to regulate the work and conduct of the employees of the University and of the employees of the colleges and institutions; (xxxv) to regulate and enforce discipline among the employees and students of the University and to take such disciplinary measures in this regard as may be deemed necessary; (xxxvi) to prescribe code of conduct for managements of recognised colleges and institutions; (xxxvii) to make arrangements for promoting the health and general welfare of the employees of the University and those of colleges and institutions; (xxxviii) to receive benefactions, donations and gifts from persons and to name after them such chairs, institutions, buildings and the like, the University may determine, whose gift or donation to the University is worth such amount as the University may decide; (xxxix) to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of any property, movable or immovable, including trust and endowment properties for the purposes of the University; (xl) to borrow, with the approval of the Central Government, on the security of the property of the University, money for the purposes of the University; (xli) to assess needs of the students in terms of subjects, fields of specialisation, levels of education and training of technical manpower, both on short and long term basis, and to initiate necessary programmes to meet these needs; (xlii) to initiate measures to enlist the co-operation of the industry to provide complementary facilities; (xliii) to provide for instruction through "distance learning" and "open approach" and for mobility of students from the non-formal open learning stream to the formal stream and vice versa ; (xliv) to establish such campuses, special centres, specialised laboratories or other units for research and instruction as are, in the opinion of the University, necessary for the furtherance of its objective; (xlv) to confer autonomous status on a college or an institution or a Department, as the case may be, in accordance with the Statutes; (xlvi) to arrange for the training to upgrade maritime standard of the employees of the industry and institutes and to levy fees for such training as prescribed by the Statutes; (xlvii) to establish Off-shore Campus at any place outside the Country as and when it is considered necessary for advancing the aims and objectives of the University; and (xlviii) to do all such other acts and things as may be necessary, incidental or conducive to the attainment of all or any of its objects.