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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

University Grants Commission
(minimum qualifications required for the appointment and career
Advancement of teachers in Universities and institutions affiliated to it )

Regulations, 2000.

Dr. (Mrs.) Pankaj Mittal D.O.N0. F3-1/2000(PS)

DEPUTY SECRETARY GRAMS : UNIGRANTS
Phone No. 3232055
4th April, 2000

Sub : UGC Regulations on minimum qualifications for appointment and Career Advancement of
Lecturers, Readers and Professors in the Universities and Colleges.
Dear Sir/Madam,

In supersession of UGC Regulation No.F.1-11/87 (CPP-11) dated 19th September, 1991 and
Notification No. F.3-l/94 (PS) dated 24 December, 1998, the UGC had made the Regulations
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for minimum qualifications required for the appointment and career advancement of teachers in
universities and institutions affiliated to it.

The Regulations have been sent to Assistant Controller (Commercial), Government of India,
Department of Publication, (Urban Development and Employment) Civil Lines, Delhi, for
publication in the Gazette of India.

The provision contained in the UGC Notification of 24üi December, 1998 mentioning that it would
be optional for the university to exempt Ph. D. degree holders from NET or to require NET in their
case as a desirable or essential qualification for appointment as lecturer has been withdrawn. NET
shall remain the compulsory requirement for appointment as Lecturer even for candidates having
Ph. D. degree. However, the candidates who have completed M.Phil. degree or have submitted Ph.
D. thesis in the concerned subject up to 3 1 st December, 1993, are exempted from appearing in
the NET examination.
The proviso in the Regulation, 1991 which reads as follows :-

Provided that any relaxation in the prescribed qualifications can only be made by a University in
regard to the posts under it or any of the institutions including constituent or affiliated colleges
recognised under clause C) of Section 2 of the aforesaid Act or by an institution deemed to be
a university under Section 3 of the said Act with the prior approval of the University Grants
Commission.
has been dropped and is replaced by the following proviso :-

Provided that any relaxation in the prescribed qualifications can only be made by the University
Grants Commission in a particular subject in which NET is not being conducted or enough
number of candidates are not available with NET qualifications for a specified period only. (this
relaxation, if allowed, would be given based on sound justification and would apply to affected
Universities for that particular subject for the specified period. No individual applications would
be entertained.)
The Regulations issued by the UGC are mandatory in nature and all the universities are advised
to strictly comply with them. It shall be necessary for the universities and the management of
colleges to make the necessary changes in their statutes, ordinances, rules, regulations, etc. to
incorporate these Regulations.

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