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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

University Grants Commission
(Minimum qualifications required of a person to be appointed to the
teaching staff of university of institutions affiliated to it) Regulation,1982

F.1-93/74(CP) June,1983
Enclosure

Notification

In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (e) of Sub-section (1) of Section 26 read with
section 14 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956), the University Grants
Commission makes the following regulations, namely:-

1. Short title, application and commencement:-
(i) These regulation may be called the University Grants Commission (Qualifications
required of a person to be appointment to the teaching staff of a University or other
institutions affiliated to it) Regulation, 1982.
(ii) They shall apply to every University established or incorporated by under a Central Act,
Provincial Act or a State Act, every institutions including a constituent or an affiliated
college recognized by the Commission, in consultation with the University concerned,
under clause (f) or section 2 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 and every
institution Deemed to be University under section 3 of the said Act.

(iii) They shall come into source of the date of the issue of this notification.
2. Qualifications:-
No person shall be appointed to a teaching post in a University or in any of institutions
including constituent or affiliated colleges recognized under clause (f) of Section 2 of the
University Grants Commission Act, 1956 or in an institutions deemed to be University under
section 3 of said Act in a subject if he does not full fill the requirements as to the qualifications
for the appropriate subject as provided in schedule I to X of these regulations,
Provided that any relaxation in the prescribed qualifications can only be made by a university
in regard to the post under it or any of the institutions including constituent or affiliated
colleges recognized under clause (f) of section 2 of the aforesaid Act or by an institution
deemed to be University under section 3 of the said Act with the prior approval of the
University Grants Commission.
Note: Attention is invited to Section 114 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 which
reads as follows:-
14. ‘’If any University fails within a reasonable time to comply with any recommendation
made by the Commission under section 12 or section 13, or contravenes the provisions of any
rule made under clause (f) or clause (g) of sub-section (2) of section 25 or of any regulation
made under clause (e) or clause (f) or clause (g) or section 26, the Commission after taking into
consideration the cause, if any shown by the University for such failure or contravention, may
withhold from the University the grants proposed to be made out of the Commission.’’

Consequences of failure of Universities to comply with recommendations of the Commission.

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