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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

3 Professional Development activities (such as participation in 15
seminars, conferences, short term, training courses, camps and events,
talks, lectures, membership of associations, dissemination and general
articles, not covered in Category III below)
Minimum API Score Required 15
CATEGORY-III: RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTIONS

S.No. APIs Faculties of Physical education Max. points for
University and college
teacher position
Refereed Journals* 15/ Publication
Non-referred but recognized and
reputable journals
III(a) Research and periodicals, having ISBN/ISSN 10 / Publication
Publication numbers.
(Journals) Full papers in Conference proceedings, 10 / publication
etc.*
(Abstracts not to be included)
III(b) Research Text or Reference Books Published by 50 /sole author 10 /
Publications (books, International Publishers ** chapter in an edited book
chapters in books, Text or Reference Books Published by 25/sole author, 5/chapter
other than refereed National/ Central/ State Government/ in edited books
journal articles) Societies **
Subject Books by Other local publishers 15/ sole author, 3/
with ISBN/ISSN numbers ** chapter in edited books
Chapters in knowledge based volumes 5 / Chapter
in Indian/National level publishers with
ISBN /ISSN numbers and with numbers of
national and international directories **

*For Joint Research papers, the First/Principal author will share 60%, while the rest joint authors
will share the 40% of API scores
** Scores (50/25/10/03 whatever the case may be) to be shared equally by all authors

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