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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

APPENDIX I

No.1-32/2006-U.II/U.I(i) Government of India Ministry of Human Resource Development
Department of Higher Education
New Delhi, dated the 31St December, 2008

To

The Secretary,
University Grants Commission,

Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi - 110 002.

Subject:- Scheme of revision of pay of teachers and equivalent cadres in universities and colleges
following the revision of pay scales of Central Government employees on the recommendations
of the Sixth Central Pay Commission.
Sir,

I am directed to say that the Government of India have decided, after taking into consideration
the recommendations made by the University Grants Commission (UGC) based on the decisions
taken at the meeting of the Commission held on 7-8 October 2008, to revise the pay scales of
teachers in the Central Universities. The revision of pay scales of teachers shall be subject to
various provisions of the Scheme of revision of pay scales as contained in this letter, and
Regulations to be framed by the UGC in this behalf in accordance with the Scheme given below.
The revised pay scales and other provisions of the Scheme are as under:- 1. General

(i) There shall be only three designations in respect of teachers in universities and colleges,
namely, Assistant Professors, Associate Professors and Professors. However, there shall be
no change in the present designation in respect of Library and Physical Education Personnel
at various levels.
(ii) No one shall be eligible to be appointed, promoted or designated as Professor, unless he or
she possesses a Ph.D. and satisfies other academic conditions, as laid downy the University
Grants Commission (UGC) from time to time. This shall, however, not affect those who are
already designated as ‘Professor’.
(iii) The pay of teachers and equivalent positions in Universities and Colleges shall be fixed
according to their designations in two pay bands of Rs. 15600-39100 and Rs.37400-67000
with appropriate “Academic Grade Pay” (AGP in short). Each Pay Band shall have different
stages of Academic Grade Pay which shall ensure that teachers and other equivalent cadres
covered under this Scheme, subject to other conditions of eligibility being satisfied, have
multiple opportunities for upward movement during their career.
(iv) Posts of Professors shall be created in under-graduate (UG) colleges as well as in postgraduate
(PG) colleges. The number of posts of Professors in a UG College shall be equivalent to 10
percent of the number of posts-of Associate Professors in that College. There shall be as
many posts of Professors in each PG College as the number of Departments in that College.
No new Departments shall be created in UG or PG Colleges without prior approval of the
UGC.
(v) Up to 10% of the posts of Professors in universities shall be in the higher Academic Grade
Pay of Rs. 12000 with eligibility conditions to be prescribed by the UGC.

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