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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

First Class graduate and professionally qualified Charted Accountant / Cost and
Works Accountant / Company Secretary of the concerned statutory body.
2. A minimum of ten years experience of teaching industry / research / profession,
out of which five years must be at the level of Assistant Professor or equivalent
excluding the period spent for obtaining research degree. The candidate should
have Professional work experience, which is significant and can be recognized
at national / international level as equivalent to Ph.D. and ten years managerial
experience in industry / profession of which at least five years should be at the
level comparable to that of lecturer / assistant professor.

v. Without prejudice to the above, the following conditions may be considered
desirable:
a) Teaching, research industrial and / or professional experience in a reputed
organization;
b) Published work, such as research papers, patents filed / obtained, books
and / or technical reports; and
c) Experience of guiding the project work /dissertation of PG / Research
Students or supervising R&D projects in industry.
3. Professor:
i. Consistently good academic record with at least 55% marks (or an equivalent
grade in a point scale wherever grading system is followed) in Master’s Degree in
Business Management / Administration / in a relevant discipline or consistently
good academic record with at least 55% marks (or an equivalent grade in a point
scale wherever grading system is followed) in two year full time PGDM declared
equivalent by AIU / recognized by the AICTE / UGC;
OR

First Class graduate and professionally qualified Chartered Accountant / Cost and
works Accountant / Company Secretary of the concerned statutory body. ii. Ph.
D. or Fellow of Indian Institute of Management or of an Institute recognized by
AICTE and declared equivalent by the AIU.
iii. A minimum of ten years’ experience of teaching / industry / research / professional
out of which five years must be at the level of Reader or equivalent excluding the
period spent for obtaining the research degree.

OR
iv. In the event the candidate is from industry and the profession, the following shall
constitute as essential:
1. Consistently good academic record with at least 55% marks (or an equivalent
grade in a point scale wherever grading system is followed) in Master’s Degree
in Business Management / Administration / in a relevant management related
discipline or consistently good academic record with at least 55% marks (or an
equivalent grade in a point scale wherever grading system is followed) in two years
full time PGDM declared equivalent by AIU / recognized by the AICTE / UGC.

OR
First Class graduate and professionally qualified Charted Accountant / Cost and
works Accountant / Company Secretary of the concerned statutory body.

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