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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

6.4.10. Ten percent of the positions of Professors in a university, with a minimum of ten
years of teaching and research experience as professor either in the pre-revised scale
of Professor’s pay or the revised scale pay will be eligible for promotion to the higher
grade of Professorship (stage 6), on satisfying the required API score as per Tables
I and II through the PBAS methodology stipulated in these Regulations through a
duly constituted Expert committee, and such teachers promoted to the higher grade
shall continue to be designated as ‘Professor’. As this AGP elevation for Professor is
applicable to only university departments, additional credentials are to be evidenced by:
(a) post-doctoral research outputs of high standard;
(b) awards / honours /and recognitions;
(c) Additional research degrees like D.Sc., D.Litt., LlD, etc.; patents and IPR on
products and processes developed / technology transfer achieved in the case of
teachers in science and technology.
The selection is to be conducted by the university by receiving duly filled PBAS
proformas from eligible professors based on seniority, three times in number of
the available vacancies in each faculty. In case the number of candidates available
is less than three times the number of vacancies, the zone of consideration will
be limited to the actual number of candidates available. The assessment process
shall be through an Expert-Committee evaluation of all credentials submitted as
stipulated in Table-II(A) of Appendix-III for teachers in University departments.
No separate interview need to be conducted for this category.

6.4.11 Discretionary award of advance increments for those who enter the profession as
Associate Professors or Professors with higher merit, high number of research
publications and experience at the appropriate level, shall be within the competence
of the appropriate authority of the concerned University or recruiting institution
based on the recommendations of selection committee(s) while negotiating with
individual candidates in the context of the merits of each case, taking into account
the pay structure of other teachers in the faculty and other merit- specific factors.
Discretionary award of advance increments is not applicable to those entering
the profession as Assistant Professor/Assistant Librarian/Assistant Director of
Physical Education and Sports and to those who are entitled for grant of advance
increments for having acquired Ph. D., M. Phil., M.Tech., etc. However, those
entering service as Assistant Professor/Assistant Librarian/Assistant Director of
Physical Education and Sports with post-doctoral teaching/research experience after
Ph.D. and proven credentials may be eligible for discretionary award of advanced
increments to be decided and recorded by the selection committee in its minutes.
6.5.0. PROFESSORS IN UNDER GRADUATE AND POST GRADUATE COLLEGES:

6.5.1. (i) Ten percent of the number of the posts of Associate Professor in an Under
Graduate College shall be that of Professors and shall be subject to the same
criterion for selection/ appointment as that of Professors in Universities,

Provided that there shall be no more than one post of Professor in each Department;
Provided further that one-fourth (25%) of the posts of Professor in Under Graduate
Colleges shall be directly recruited or filled on deputation by eligible teachers and
the remaining three-fourths (75%) of posts of Professors shall be filled by CAS
promotion from among eligible Associate Professors of the relevant department
of the Under Graduate College.

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