e) Finance Committee means Finance Committee of
the CIU.
f) General Conference means the General Confeence
of the CIU.
g) Government means the Central and the
State Governments.
h) Patron-in-Chief means the
Patron-in-Chief of the CIU.
i) President means President of the CIU.
j) Planning Committee means of the
Planning Committee of the CIU.
k) Rules and Bye-Laws means Rules & Bye-laws
of the CIU.
l) Secretary General means Secretary General of
the CIU.
m) Vice President means Vice-President of the CIU.
n) Year means the Financial Year.
Patron-in-Chief
a) There shall be a Patron-in-Chief of the CIU.
b) The role of the Patron-in-Chief in the realm
of the set-up of the CIU shall be that of the supreme guide in the moral
discipline of the CIU. He will, interalia, advise/exhort/address as and
when he feels opportune or on the request of the authorities of the CIU
and also about the advancement of knowledge/learnings in the CIU.
The Partron-in-Chief will head the Board of Patrons
with members invited by the CIU.
Authorities of the CIU
The following shall be the authorities of the CIU :
a) The General Conference
b) The Board of Management
c) The Advisory Council
d) The Planning Committee
e) The Finance Committee
f) Such other Authorities as may be deemed necessary by the CIU.
Income of Confederation of Indian Universities
The income and the property of the Confederation of
Indian Universities (CIU) shall be utilized only for the purpose of the
aims and objects as set forth above and no portion of the fund shall be
directly or indirectly diverted to any other organisation(s) or person(s).
This would identify the CIU as a Non Profit Making Organisation.
Accordingly the registeration taking place by the
name of the "Confederation of Indian Universities (CIU)" will
be applying from time to time to the Income Tax Department for seeking
exemption under different sections and provisions of the Income Tax Act
of the Government of India.
Powers and Functions of the Confederaton of
Indian Universities (CIU)
Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing
powers of the management and control, the CIU shall have the following
functions it may consider necessary or desirable:
a) To purchase, hire, take on lease, land,
movable or immovable properties and assets anywhere in the world, accept
gifts, grants or loans on such terms and conditions and subjects to the
payment of interest or otherwise as the CIU may consider necessary.
b) To enter into contracts, agreements and
arrangements with any including the Government authorities, municipal,
local and others for the purpose of obtaining concessions, privileges or
other benefits or which may seem conducive to carrying out all the
objects and purposes of the CIU or any of them to obtain and carry out,
exercise and comply with any such contracts, agreements or arrangements.
c) To borrow or receive money with or without
security or secured by bonds, mortgages, or other securities charged on
the undertaking of all or any of the assets of the CIU.
d) To deal with, sell, mortgage, charge, lease,
invest, open bank accounts, advance loans against adequate security and
generally deal with the fund or any part thereof as the CIU may decide
and consider desirable or necessary.
e) To invest money of the CIU in such a manner
and in such investments as the CIU may in their absolute discretion from
time to time deem fit so to be in confirmity with any law or provision
of the relevant acts of the Government.
f) To open, operate and close such accounts with
any bank or banks as the CIU may deem necessary.
g) To manage the CIU’s fund and to collect and
recover interest, dividends and income thereof and to pay the expenses
for collection and other outgoings if any.
h) To pay or utilise the balance of such interest
and dividends and income of the CIU and if the CIU so desires, to
utilise the corpus of the CIU’s Fund if any or part thereof for the
CIU's purposes.
i) To maintain separate accounts of the CIU for
facilities like provident funds, pension funds, or any other fund for
the support or relief or maintenance of any employee or class of
employees either full time or part time or their dependents or any other
person/persons.
j) To institute, defend, compound, compromise or
abandon any legal proceedings by or against the CIU or its officers or
otherwise concerning the assets of the CIU and also to compound and
allow time for payment or satisfaction of any debt due to be paid and
claim or demands by or against the CIU.
k) To refer matters to arbitration.
l) To engage the services of any person or
persons upon such remuneration and terms as the CIU may deem fit, to
take disciplinary action against them and also to terminate their
services.
m) The CIU may incur all costs and expenses
considered necessay for the due and efficient management of the affairs
and properties of the CIU.
n) To sign, endorse, transfer and negotiate all
kinds of documents relating to the investment of the funds of the CIU.
o) To receive money and to grant receipts and
discharge thereof.
p) To delegate to any person or persons all or
any of the foregoing powers conferred on the CIU in so far as they may
lawfully do, subject however to the CIU retaining the ultimate control
and descretion over the delegated action and conduct.
q) To transfer any funds or property of the CIU
with objects or purposes similar to those of the CIU and whose income is
exempt from any liability by virtue of different sections related to the
non profit making organisation.
r) To frame and implement from time to time rules
and regulations for the administration of the CIU fund and carrying out
of all/any of the CIU purposes.
s) To help organise full time, part time,
weekend, correspondence and distance learning educational programmes for
conferring secondary, post secondary, bachelor's, master's and doctoral
level degrees, diplomas and certificates in different areas and subjects
through the insitutions including universities, colleges and schools
already existing anywhere in the world or established / to be
established with the assistance approval of the CIU.
t) To empanel the institutions, colleges and
universities offering recognised degrees, diplomas and certificates.
u) To establish branch offices and campuses of
CIU for educational planning, publication, study, training, research and
consultancy as may be required for the benefit of regional, national as
well as global society.
v) To do all such things as may be necessary for
the effective functioning of the CIU.
Interpretation of the Object
The CIU is established for public benefit and
accordingly the objects of the CIU as setforth above will be interpreted
and restricted to mean such objects and purposes as are regarded in law
to be of a public charitable nature.
The CIU Open to all Universities
a) The CIU shall be open to all Universities
including Fedeation and / or Association of Universities in India. The
CIU may also admit similar bodies from other countries.
b) No benefaction shall be accepted by the CIU
which in its opinion involves conditions and obligations opposed to the
spirit and objects for which this CIU stands for.
Properties and Assets
a) The CIU shall be the custodian of its
properties and assets pertaining to its computer centres, reprography
units, printing and publishing outfits, constituent units, its
administrative offices and other activities that are transferred to it
by the donors and sponsors on lease or otherwise or obtained by it or
constructed by it with its own funds or the grants from the
State/Central Government or any other outside agency or charitable
organisations besides business, trade and industrial houses.
b) The CIU shall hold, transfer or otherwise
dispose of any immovable property so acquired and settled in for the
purpose of the CIU provided that where such assets have been created
through a grant from any agency, prior concurrence of the agency
concerned will be obtained in this behalf.
c) Movable as well as immovable properties and assets for the CIU
will be created as per the provisions of the Income Tax Act of the
Government of India viewing the rules and regulations regarding Income
Tax exemption declared from time to time.
Utilisation Clause
The income and property of the CIU however derived, shall be
utilised solely for promoting the objects of the CIU as set out in this CIU
Charter.
Bar on Payments
No portion of income and property of the CIU shall be paid or
transferred directly or indirectly by way of dividend, bonus or otherwise
howsoever, by way of profit to the persons who were at any time or are members
of the CIU or to any of them or any person(s) claiming through them or any of
them provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent the payment in good
faith of remuneration to any member thereof or other person as consideration for
any service rendered to the CIU or for travelling or other allowances and such
other charges.
Funds, Accounts, Audits and Annual Report
a) The funds of the CIU shall be utilised solely for the
purpose of the CIU.
b) The accounts of the CIU shall be maintained in the
name of the CIU.
The accounts of the CIU shall be kept in such forms as may be
laid down by the Board of Management.
c) All funds belonging to the CIU shall be shown
separately in the accounts of the CIU.
d) Annual reports and the Audit reports shall be
submitted to the President within nine months of the closure of the accounting
year for the purpose of being laid down on the records of the CIU.
e) The accounts of the CIU opened in Banks, Post Offices
or any other financial institution will be operated under the signature(s) of
person(s) as resolved by the Board of Management.
f) The nucleus of the CIU Fund is Rs. One Thousand One
only.
Alteration, Amendments and Additions
The rules and Bye-Laws of the CIU may be altered amended and
added by the General Conference and should these be deemed necessary in the
interests of the CIU.
Proposals for the amendment of this Constitution shall be
submitted in writing to the Secretary General, not less than five months before
the opening date of the General Conference at which they are to be considered,
and copies shall be sent by the Secretariat to all member institutions, by
registered mail, not less than four months before such opening date. The
proposals of which notice has been given shall be debated during the sessions of
the General Conference and shall come into immediate effect if adopted on a
written ballot by a two-thirds majority of the members attending a meeting
called for the purpose, provided that the total number of votes cast shall
constitute a majority of the members attending the Conference. Regulations which
are complementary to the Constitution but do not alter it may be adopted by the
Board of Management, and shall come into force immediately; they must, however,
be submitted for ratification to the next General Conference.
Dissolution
The Confederation may be dissolved by the decision of two-thirds majority of
members of the General Conference. On the winding up or dissolution of the CIU
there shall remain, after the satisfaction of all its debts and liabilities any
property whatsoever, the same shall not be paid or distributed among the members
of the CIU or any of them but shall be donated to any other organisation having
similar aims and objects.
