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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

(iv) All issues relating to grant of advance increments to teachers engaged in engineering/
technical courses in the university system shall be subject to recommendations of
the Committee separately constituted by the Central Government for pay review
of teachers in technical education.
(b) Pay ‘fixation formula’:

The pay ‘fixation formula’ recommended by 6th Central Pay Commission as accepted
by the Central Government shall be adopted for teachers and equivalent positions in the
Library and Physical Education Cadres.
(c) Allowances:
(i) Allowances such as Leave Travel Concession, Special Compensatory Allowances,
Children’s Education Allowance, Transport Allowance, House Rent Allowance,
Deputation Allowance, Travelling Allowance, Dearness Allowance, area based
Special Compensatory Allowance etc. as applicable to teachers and Library and
Physical Education Cadres, shall be at par with those accepted by the Central
Government for Central Government employees on the recommendations of 6th
Central Pay Commission and shall be applicable from 1.09.2008.
(ii) For teachers and equivalent positions in Library and Physical Education cadres in
UGC maintained universities/colleges and institutions deemed to be universities,
the rates of allowances as applicable to Central Government Group ‘A’ employees
shall be adopted.
(iii) Teachers and equivalent positions in Library and Physical Education cadres, in
UGC maintained universities/colleges and institutions deemed to be universities,
with visual, orthopedic hearing or other disabilities under the provisions of
‘Persons with Disabilities (Protection of Rights, Equal Opportunities and Full
Participation) Act, 1995’ shall be entitled to twice the normal rate of transport
allowance as accepted by the Central Government on the recommendations of 6th
CPC for Central Government Employees with disabilities.
(d) Study Leave:

(i) University Grants Commission shall revise its guidelines in respect of granting
study leave with pay for acquiring M. Phil etc. and Ph.D. in the relevant discipline
while in service by relaxing the number of years to be put in after entry while
keeping in mind the availability of vacant positions for teachers and other cadres
in colleges and universities, so that a teacher and other cadres entering service
without Ph.D. or M.Phil. or higher qualification could be encouraged to acquire
these qualifications in the relevant disciplines at the earliest rather than at a later
stage of the career.

(e) Research Promotion Grant:
(i) University Grants Commission shall prescribe a scheme with appropriate
guidelines for providing by way of appropriate ‘start up grants’ to teachers and
other cadres taking up research in all disciplines including basic science research
as recommended by ‘Prof. M.M. Sharma Committee on Strengthening of Basic
Science Research’ and suitably adopted for research in social sciences/humanities
and other disciplines by the UGC.

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