An Act to unify law relating to the State Universities established under the Jharkhand State Universities Act, 2000, as adapted including all its amendment; Jharkhand Raksha Shakti University Act, 2016; Jharkhand University of Technology Act, 2011 and Pandit Raghunath Murmu Tribal University Act, 2022; and to establish new Teaching Intensive Affiliating and Research Intensive Unitary State Universities in the State WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for a uniform pattern for the constitution, academic autonomy, financial independence and efficient administration of non-agricultural and non-medical Universities in the State of Jharkhand and to make better provisions thereof. AND WHEREAS the Government of Jharkhand feels it is expedient to make a law to provide for better governance, academic standards, quality education, academic autonomy and excellence, adequate representation through democratic process, and strengthen the higher education institutions AND WHEREAS the Government of Jharkhand feels it is necessary to regulate the non-agricultural and non-medical Universities in the State of Jharkhand in an effective manner, to provide for participation of Universities in social and educational spheres, to constitute various Boards and Committees and to repeal the Acts of the Universities of the State of Jharkhand; It is hereby enacted in the Seventy-Seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows: -

CHAPTER I: PRELIMINARY