The Postgraduate Committee shall have jurisdiction in the following matters concerning the postgraduate programme of the Institute: the formal approval of new courses of instruction, modification of courses already approved, the credit value of courses, the formal approval of admission of postgraduate students, the admission of qualified students to candidacy for degrees, the rules governing the form of presentation and disposal of theses, the conduct of oral and written examinations and in such other related matters as may be referred to it by the Senate.
The functions of the Committee shall consist primarily of general policy determination, coordination and review, but the Senate shall retain the power of final review. In the discharge of its responsibilities the committee shall make full use of the appraisals and recommendations of the various academic departments concerned. This committee shall be assisted by the Departmental Postgraduate Committees.
Each department/interdisciplinary programme (approved by the Senate ) shall have a Departmental Postgraduate Committee (DPGC) consisting of a Convener to be nominated by the Head of Department in consultation with the faculty of the department, the Head of Department and a minimum of four and a maximum of eight faculty members to be chosen by the department, and two students, one from the Ph.D. and other from the M.Tech. programme. If an M.Tech. programme does not exist both shall be from the Ph.D programme. The student members shall be chosen by the postgraduate students of the departments for a period of one year.
The
student members shall not participate when the cases of academic evaluation
of individual students are being considered, although the student's opinion
might be sought prior to taking any decision.