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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

For avoidance of doubt, it is clarified that sanctioned posts include the posts
approved under both direct recruitment and CAS promotion.
(ii) Identification of posts of Professor in an Under Graduate College for being filled
through direct recruitment / deputation shall be carried out by the affiliating/
concerned University acting in consultation with the College. Where the number
of posts of Professor worked out as a percentage of the number of posts of
Associate Professor for CAS promotion or direct recruitment / deputation is not
an integer, the same shall be rounded off to the next higher integer.
(iii) The selection process is to be conducted by the university by receiving PBAS
proformas from eligible Associate Professors based on seniority and three times
in number of the available vacancies. 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 selection shall be
conducted through the API scoring system with PBAS methodology and selection
committee process stipulated in these Regulations for appointment of Professors.
For direct recruitment of the 25% of the posts, the ‘Rota-Quota system shall be
followed starting with promotions and the direct recruitment quota shall be rotated
in an alphabetical order.
6.5.2. There shall be one post of Professor in each Department of a Post-Graduate College
which shall be subject to the same criterion for selection / appointment as that of
Professors in Universities, provided that one-fourth (25%) of the posts of Professor
shall be filled on deputation/direct recruitment from among eligible teachers and the
remaining three-fourths (75%) of posts shall be filled through merit promotion from
among the eligible Associate Professors in the relevant department of the PostGraduate
college. Identification of posts of Professor in a Post-Graduate College for being filled
through direct recruitment/deputation shall be carried out by the affiliating/concerned
University acting in consultation with the College. The decision regarding whether the
posts of professor will be for CAS promotion or direct recruitment/deputation shall be
within the competence of the University acting in consultation with the College. Where
the number of posts of professor for CAS promotion or direct recruitment / deputation
worked out as a percentage of the total number of posts in a Post Graduate College is
not an integer, the same shall be rounded off to the next higher integer.

The selection process is to be conducted by the university by receiving PBAS proformas
from eligible Associate Professors based on seniority and three times in number of
the available vacancies. 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 selection shall be conducted through the API
scoring system with PBAS methodology, selection committee process stipulated in
these Regulations for appointment of Professors. For direct recruitment of the 25% of
the posts, the ‘Rota-Quota System’ shall be followed starting with promotion and the
direct recruitment quota shall be rotated in an alphabetical order.

6.6.0 STAGES OF PROMOTION UNDER THE CAREER ADVANCEMENT SCHEME
FOR ASSISTANT LIBRARIANS, ETC.

6.6.1 Assistant University Librarian / College Librarian in the entry level grade, possessing
Ph.D. in Library Science, after completing service of four years in the lowest grade, if
otherwise eligible as per API scoring system and PBAS methodology laid down by the
UGC in these Regulations, shall be eligible for the higher grade (stage 2).

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