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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

(c) Minor Projects (Amount Minor Projects (Amount 10/each Project
mobilized with grants above mobilized with grants above Rs.
Rs. 50,000 up to Rs. 5 lakh) 25,000 up to Rs. 3 lakh)
III (C) (ii) Consultancy Projects Amount mobilized with Amount mobilized with 10 per every
carried out / ongoing minimum of Rs.10.00 lakh minimum of Rs. 2.0 lakhs Rs.10.0 lakhs and Rs.2.0 lakhs,
respectively
III (C) Completed projects: Completed project Report Completed project report 20 /each major project and 10 / each
(iii) Quality Evaluation (Acceptance from funding (Accepted by funding agency) minor project
agency)
III (C) (iv) Projects Outcome / Outputs Patent/Technology transfer/ Major Policy document of Govt. 30 / each national level output or patent
Product/Process Bodies at Central and State level /50 /each for International level,
III (D) RESEARCH GUIDANCE
III (D) (i) M.Phil. Degree awarded only Degree awarded only 3 /each candidate
III (D) (ii) Ph.D Degree awarded Degree awarded 10 /each candidate
Thesis submitted Thesis submitted 7 /each candidate
III(E) TRAINING COURSES AND CONFERENCE /SEMINAR/WORKSHOP PAPERS
III(E) (i) Refresher courses, (a) Not less than two weeks (a) Not less than two weeks 20/each
Methodology workshops, duration duration
Training, Teaching- (b) One week duration (b) One week duration 10/each
LearningEvaluation
Technology Programmes,
Soft Skills development
Programmes, Faculty
Development Programmes
(Max: 30 points)
III(E) (ii) Papers in Conferences/ Participation and Presentation Participation and Presentation of
Seminars/ workshops etc.** of research papers (oral/ research papers (oral/poster) in
poster) in
a) International conference a) International conference 10 each
b) National b) National 7.5 / each
c) Regional/State level c) Regional/State level 5 /each
d) Local –University/ d) Local –University/College 3 / each
College level level
III(E) (iv) Invited lectures or (a) International (a) International 10 /each
presentations for
conferences/ symposia
(b) National level (b) National level 5
*Wherever relevant to any specific discipline, the API score for paper in refereed journal would be
augmented as follows: (i) indexed journals – by 5 points; (ii) papers with impact factor between
1 and 2 by 10 points; (iii) papers with impact factor between 2 and 5 by 15 points; (iv) papers with
impact factor between 5 and 10 by 25 points. ** If a paper presented in Conference/Seminar is
published in the form of Proceedings, the points would accrue for the publication (III (a)) and not
under presentation (III (e)(ii)).

Notes.

1. It is incumbent on the Coordination Committee proposed in these Regulations and the
University to prepare and publicize within six months subject-wise lists of journals,
periodicals and publishers under categories IIIA and B. Till such time, screening/selection
committees will assess and verify the categorization and scores of publications.

2. The API for joint publications will have to be calculated in the following manner: Of the
total score for the relevant category of publication by the concerned teacher, the first/
Principal author and the corresponding author/supervisor/mentor of the teacher would
share equally 60% of the total points and the remaining 40% would be shared equally by
all other authors.

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