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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

SCHEDULE FOR CLAUSE 6.8.0
(FOR PAY SCALES, DESIGNATIONS AND STAGES OF PROMOTION UNDER
CAS OF INCUMBENT AND NEWLY APPOINTED ASSISTANT PROFESSORS/
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS/ PROFESSORS AND OTHER EQUIVALENT CADRES IN
LIBRARY AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS IN CENTRAL UNIVERSITIES
AND COLLEGES THEREUNDER AND INSTITUTIONS DEEMED TO BE
UNIVERSITIES WHOSE MAINTENANCE EXPENDITURE IS MET BY THE UGC).
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1.0. Persons entering the teaching profession in universities and colleges shall be designated
as Assistant Professors and shall be placed in the Pay Band III of Rs.15,600 – Rs. 39,100
with AGP of Rs. 6,000. Lecturers already in service in the pre-revised scale of Rs. 8,000 –
Rs.13,500, shall be re-designated as Assistant Professors with the said AGP of Rs. 6,000.
Their CAS promotions would be subject to the API criteria based PBAS system norms laid
out in these regulations
1.1. 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.7,000.

1.2. An 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. 7,000 after completion of five years service as
Assistant Professor.
1.3. An 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. 7,000 only after
completion of six years’ service as Assistant Professor.
1.4. The upward movement from AGP of Rs. 6,000 to AGP of Rs. 7,000 for all Assistant
Professors shall be subject to their satisfying the API criteria based PBAS conditions as
laid down by the UGC in these Regulations.
2.0. The pay of the incumbents to the posts of Lecturer (senior scale) (i.e. the unrevised scale of
Rs. 10,000 – Rs.15,200) shall be re-designated as Assistant Professor, and shall be fixed at
the appropriate stage in Pay Band III of Rs.15,600 – Rs. 39,100 based on their present pay,
with AGP of Rs. 7,000.

2.1. Assistant Professors with completed service of five years at the AGP of Rs. 7,000 shall
be eligible, subject to other API requirements laid down by these UGC Regulations, to
move up to the AGP of Rs. 8,000.

3.0. Posts of Associate Professor shall be in the Pay Band IV of Rs. 37,400 – Rs. 67,000, with
AGP of Rs. 9,000. Directly recruited Associate Professors under these Regulations shall
be placed in the Pay Band IV of Rs. 37,400 – Rs. 67,000 with an AGP of Rs. 9,000, at the
appropriate stage in the Pay Band in terms of the conditions of appointment.
3.1. Incumbent Readers and Lecturers (Selection Grade) who have completed three years in
the current pay scale of Rs. 12,000 – Rs. 18,300 on 1 January, 2006 shall be placed in
Pay Band IV of Rs. 37,400 – Rs. 67,000 with AGP of Rs. 9,000 and shall be redesignated
as Associate Professor.

3.2. Incumbent Readers and Lecturers (Selection Grade) who had not completed three years
in the pay scale of Rs.12,000 – Rs.18,300 on or after 1 January, 2006 shall be placed at
the appropriate stage in the Pay Band of Rs.15,600 – Rs. 39,100 with AGP of Rs. 8,000
till they complete three years of service in the grade of Lecturer (Selection Grade) /
Reader, and thereafter shall be placed in the higher Pay Band IV of Rs. 37,400 – Rs.
67,000 and accordingly re-designated as Associate Professor.
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