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Regulations on Establishment, Maintenance and Recognition of Institutions:

7.0 Delegation of Powers
Subject to the provisions of these Regulations and Rules, any authority or officer of the
institution deemed to be university, with the approval of Board of Management, may delegate
its power to any other authority or officer or person under their respective control and subject
to the conditions that the overall responsibility for exercising the powers so delegated shall
continue to rest in the authority or officer delegating such powers.
8.0 Seniority List
(a) Whenever in accordance with these Rules any person is to hold an office or to be
a member of an authority of the Institution deemed to be University by rotation of
seniority, such seniority shall be determined according to the length of the continuous
service of such person in the grade in the institution deemed to be university in
accordance with such other principles as the Board of Management may from time to
time prescribe.
(b) It shall be the duty of the Registrar to prepare and maintain in respect of each class/
cadre of persons to whom the provisions of these Rules apply a complete and up-to-
date seniority list in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing clause.
(c) If two or more persons have equal length of continuous service in a particular grade/
cadre or the relative seniority of any person or persons is in doubt, the Registrar may
on his/her own notion and shall at the request of any such person, submit the matter to
the Board whose decision shall be final and binding.
9.0 Dispute as to Membership
If any question arises, whether any person has been duly nominated or appointed, as or is
entitled to be a member of any authority or any committee of the institution deemed to be
university, the matter shall be referred to the Chancellor, whose decision thereon shall be
final and binding.
10.0 Grievance Redress Mechanism

For individual grievances and complaint(s), every institution deemed to be university shall
have a Grievance Redress Mechanism as may be prescribed by the Rules

11.0 Resignation
Any member other than an ex-officio member of any authority may resign by a letter
addressed to the Registrar and the resignation shall take effect as soon as it is accepted by the
Chancellor or the Chairman of the Board of Management, as the case may be.
12.0 Acting Chairman of the Meetings
Where no provision is made for a Chairman to preside over a meeting of an authority of the
institution deemed to be university or any committee of such authority, or if the Chairman so
provided is absent, the members present may select one from amongst themselves to preside
at such meeting.
13.0 Validation of certain actions, decisions

No action or proceedings of any authority or anybody or any committee of the institution
deemed to be university shall be invalid merely by reason of any vacancy therein.

14.0 Disqualification
(a) A person shall be disqualified for being chosen as and for being a member of any of the
authorities of the institution deemed to be university:

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