Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Board shall have the following powers and functions, namely:

(a) to prescribe courses of instruction for recognised institutions in such branches of Secondary Education as it may think fit;

1[(b) to take steps to co-ordinate Secondary Education with University Education on the one side and Primary or Basic Education on the other and if necessary for this purpose, to take such steps as it deems it proper for preparing syllabus and textbooks for primary and middle school classes;]

(c) to make regulations for the purpose of prescribing and recommending any book as a text-book or a hand-books and undertake compilation and publication of such books;

(d) to make regulations for imposing penalties for acts of misconduct of students, teachers, examiners, examinees, printers of text-books or question papers and of persons connected with an examination of the Board;

(e) to conduct examinations based on such courses as may be prescribed;

(f) to admit candidates to its examinations in accordance with regulations;

(g) to publish the result of its examinations;

(h) to grant diplomas or certificates to successful candidates;

(i) to recommend to Government to respect to teachers and other employees of Secondary Schools or other institutions controlled by it, conditions of service such as appointment, promotion, punishment, 2[appeals against orders of punishment], transfer, pay, allowances, provident fund, pension and gratuity, if any, age of superannuation etc. and to incorporate such conditions as approved by Government in the regulations;

(j) to recommend to Government scales of pay or allowances if and when required by the Government for such of the employees of the Industrial Institutes, Agricultural Farms, Vocational Institutes Animal Husbandry Centres or Fish Culture Institutes or Laboratories, who may be appointed as part-time teachers or instructions in the Secondary Schools or Institutions duly recognised by the Board;

(k) to establish, control, regulate or administer new, Secondary Schools or Post-Basic Schools subject to approval of the State Government;

(l) to bring about practical co-ordination between State-owned Industrial Institutes, Factories or Workshops or Vocational Institutes and the Secondary Schools, also between Industrial Establishment and Secondary or Technical Institutions by way of providing systematic, practical training which will be complementary to the theoritical instructions at the schools or institutions;

(m) to bring about practical co-ordination between the State Agricultural Farms either model or experimental, or Laboratories, Silviculture Farms or Nurseries or State Animal Husbandry Centres, Poultry Farms, Diary Farms or Laboratories or Fish Culture Institution either general, industrial, vocational or technical;

(n) to provide for the use of land, building, implements, instruments, tools and plants, etc. on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between the Board and parties, Farms, Departments, Institutions or Institutions concerned subject to the approval of the State Government;

(o) to frame regulations regarding the management of Secondary Schools such as constitution or reconstitution of Managing Committees, dissolution thereof when and where necessary, to take over the Management under its direct control of such Schools other than Government Secondary Schools for such period as may be considered necessary to assume the ownership of properties of such institutions which would be under its direct control;

(p) to call for reports from the Department of Public Instruction on the conditions of recognised institutions or of institutions applying for recognition and to direct inspection of such institution;

(q) to recognise institutions for the purposes of admitting them to the privileges of the Board including examinations conducted by it;

(r) to adopt measure to promote the intellectual, physical, moral and social welfare of the students in recognised institutions and to supervise and control the conditions of their residence, health and discipline;

(s) to organise and provide for lecturers, demonstrations, educational exhibitions and to take other measures such as provisions of refresh courses for teachers as may be necessary to promote the standard of Secondary Education;

(t) to institute and award scholarships, medal and prizes to a scheme or schemes framed by the Board approved by the Government;

(u) to demand and receive such fees as may be prescribed;

(v) to submit annual accounts and balance-sheet together with the annual report of the Board to the State Government for audit and to publish the audited accounts and balance sheet in the Gazette;

(w) to submit to the State Government its view on any matter with which it is concerned;

(x) to co-operate with other authorities in such manner and for such purposes as the Board may determine;

(y) to take measures necessary to provide military education, opportunities for organised social service and such other activities as the Board considers necessary to inculcate in the minds of students enrolled in recognised institutions a high sense of citizenship and to train and prepare them to discharge their civic obligations effectively;

(z) to furnish to the State Government such reports, returns and statements as may be prescribed by regulations and such other information relating to any matter under the control of the Board as the State Government require; and

(z-i) to do such other acts and things as may be requisite in order to further the object of the Board as a Body constituted to regulate and supervise Secondary Education.