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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

6.4.2 An Assistant Professor with completed service of four years, possessing Ph. D. degree in the
relevant discipline shall be eligible, for moving to AGP of Rs.7000.
6.4.3 Assistant Professors possessing M.Phil degree or post-graduate degree in professional courses
approved by the relevant statutory Body, such as LL.M / M.Tech etc. shall be eligible for the
AGP of Rs.7000 after completion of 5 years service as Assistant Professor.
6.4.4 Assistant Professors who do not have Ph.D. or M.Phil or a Master degree in the relevant
Professional course shall be eligible for the AGP of Rs.7000 only after completion of 6 years’
service as Assistant Professor.

6.4.5 The upward movement from AGP of Rs.6000 to AGP of Rs.7000 for all Assistant Professors
shall be subject to their satisfying other conditions as laid down by the UGC in these Regulations.

6.4.6 The pay of the incumbents to the posts of Lecturer (senior scale) (i.e. the unrevised scale
of Rs.10,000-15200) shall be re-designated as Assistant Professor, and shall be fixed at the
appropriate stage in Pay Band III of Rs.15600-39100 based on their present pay, with AGP
of Rs.7000.
6.4.7 Assistant Professors with completed service of 5 years at the AGP of Rs.7000 shall be eligible,
subject to other requirements laid down by these UGC Regulations, to move up to the AGP
of Rs.8000.
6.4.8 Posts of Associate Professor shall be in the Pay Band IV of Rs.37400-67000, with AGP of
Rs.9000. Directly recruited Associate Professors under these Regulations shall be placed in
the Pay Band IV of Rs.37400-67000 with an AGP of Rs.9000, at the appropriate stage in the
Pay Band in terms of the conditions of appointment.
6.4.9 Incumbent Readers and Lecturers (Selection Grade) who have completed 3 years in
the current pay scale of Rs.12000-18300 on 1.1.2006 shall be placed in Pay Band III of
Rs.37400-67000 with AGP of Rs.9000 and shall be re-designated as Associate Professor.
6.4.10 Incumbent Readers and Lecturers (Selection Grade) who had not completed three years in
the pay scale of Rs.12000-18300 on 1.1.2006 shall be placed at the appropriate stage in the
Pay Band of Rs.15600-39100 with AGP of Rs.8000 till they complete 3 years of service in
the grade of Lecturer (Selection Grade)/ Reader, and thereafter shall be placed in the higher
Pay Band III of Rs.37400-67000 and accordingly re-designated as Associate Professor.
6.4.11 Readers/Lecturers (Selection Grade) in service at present shall continue to be designated as
Lecturer (Selection Grade) or Readers, as the case may be, until they are placed in the Pay
Band of Rs.37400-67000 and re-designated as Associate Professor in the manner described
in 6.4.9 and 6.4.10 above.
6.4.12. The incumbent Reader who is selected on or after 1.1.2006, shall be redesignated as
Associate Professor from the date of his/her selection, and will be placed in the Pay Band
IV of Rs.37400-67000 with AGP of Rs. 9000.

6.4.13. Assistant Professors completing 3 years of teaching in the AGP of Rs.8000 shall be eligible,
subject to other API conditions prescribed by these Regulations, to move to the Pay Band
IV of Rs.37400-67000 with AGP of Rs.9000 and to be designated as Associate Professor.

6.4.14. Associate Professor completing 3 years of service in the AGP of Rs.9000 and possessing
a Ph.D. degree in the relevant discipline shall be eligible to be appointed and designated
as Professor, subject to satisfying the required credit points as per API based on PBAS
methodology provided in Appendix III, Table I-III stipulated in these Regulations through a
duly constituted selection committee as suggested for the direct recruitment of Professor. No
teacher other than those with a Ph.D. shall be promoted, appointed, or designated as Professor.
The Pay Band IV for the post of Professors shall be Rs.37400-67000 with AGP of 10000.

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