d) The Secaretary General shall be the Secretary
of the Council.
The terms of members other than ex-officio members
shall be five years.
B. Powers and Functions
The Advisory Council shall be the principal advisory
body of the CIU which will have the power to constitute any Board or
Cell on such subjects as it may determine from time to time and shall,
in addition to all other powers and duties vested in it, have the
following specific powers and duties :
a) To exercise general supervision over the work
of the CIU and to give directions regarding the overall functioning of
the CIU.
b) To promote research and extension work by the
CIU and to require reports on such works from time to time.
c) To consider matters of academic interest
either on its own initiative or at the instance of the Board of
Management and to take appropriate action theron.
d) To suggest measures for inter-state,
inter-national and continental co-ordination.
e) To recommend to the Board of Management on the
measures for improvement of standards of the working of CIU and
organisation and implementation of the programmes of the CIU.
f) To appoint Sub-committees to advise on such
specific matters as may be referred to it by the Board of Management
g) To consider the recommendations of the
Sub-committees and to take such action (including making of
recommendations to the Board of Management as the circumstances of each
case may require) as considered necessary.
C. Meeting of the Advisory Council
a) The Advisory Council shall meet as often as
may be necessary but not less than one time during the financial year.
b) One third of the total members of the Advisory
Council shall constitute the quorum for the meeting of the Council.
c) Any emergent business which it may be necessary for the
Advisory Council to perform except such as may be placed before its
meeting may be carried out by circulation of a resolution among all its
members and the resolution so circulated and approved by a simple
majority shall be as effective and binding as if such resolutions had
been passed in the meeting of the Advisory Council, provided that at
least one half of the total number of the members of the Advisory
Council have recorded their views on the resolution.
