13.With a view to the promotion of the objects specified in section 12, the Institute
•may—
(a)provide for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in Ayurveda, including
•Pharmacy;
(b)provide facilities for research in the various branches of Ayurveda including
•Pharmacy;
(c)prescribe courses and curricula for both undergraduate and postgraduate
•studies in Ayurveda including Pharmacy;
(d)notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in
•force, establish and maintain—
(i)one or more Ayurveda medical colleges with different Departments
•including department of Swasthvritta and such other departments as may
•deemed to be necessary for scientific validation of Ayurveda, implementing
•Ayurveda principles and theories in public health and further expansion of
•Ashtanga Ayurveda with the help of modern scientific advances sufficiently
•staffed and equipped to undertake undergraduate and postgraduate Ayurveda
•education including Pharmacy;
•(ii) one or more well-equipped hospitals;
•(iii) colleges for Ayurveda supporting staffs such as nurses, Pharmacists,
•Panchakarma technicians or therapists and such other allied disciplines of
•Ayurveda sufficiently staffed and equipped for training such students;
•(iv) rural and urban health organisations which will form centres for
•the field training in Ayurveda and for research into community health
•problems; and
(v)other institutions for the training of different types of health workers,
•such as physiotherapists, occupational therapists and Ayurvedic medical
•technicians of various kinds;
(e)train teachers for the different Ayurveda colleges in India;
(f)hold examinations (including for admissions) and grant degrees, diplomas
•and other academic distinctions and titles in undergraduate and postgraduate
•education in Ayurveda and Pharmacy as may be laid down in the regulations;
(g)institute, and appoint persons to professorships, readerships, lectureships
•and posts of any description in accordance with regulations;
(h)receive grants from the Government and gifts, donations, benefactions,
•bequests and transfers of properties, both movable and immovable, from donors,
•benefactors, testators or transferors, as the case may be;
(i)deal with any property belonging to, or vested in, the Institute in any manner
•which is considered necessary for promoting the objects specified in section 12;
(j)demand and receive such fees and other charges as may be specified by
•regulations;
(k)construct quarters for its staff and allot such quarters to the staff in
•accordance with such regulations as may be made in this behalf;
(l)establish, maintain and manage halls and hostels for the residence of students;
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(m)supervise and control the residence and regulate the discipline of students
•of the Institute and to make arrangements for promoting their health, general welfare
•and cultural and corporate life;
(n)institute and award fellowships, scholarships, exhibitions, prizes and medals;
(o)borrow money, with the prior approval of the Central Government, on the
•security of the property of the Institute;
(p)to perform all such things as may be necessary, incidental or conducive to
•the attainment of all or any of the objects of the Institute.
