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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

AMENDED Category II: Co-curricular, EXTENSION AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT RELATED ACTIVITIES

Brief Explanation: Based on the teacher’s self-assessment, category II API scores are proposed
for co-curricular and extension activities; and Professional development related contributions.
The minimum API required by teachers for eligibility for promotion is 15. A list of items and
proposed scores is given below. It will be noticed that all teachers can earn scores from a number
of items, whereas some activities will be carried out only by one or a few teachers. The list of
activities is broad enough for the minimum API score required (15) in this category to accrue to
all teachers. As before, the self-assessment score should be based on objective verifiable criteria
and will be finalized by the screening/selection committee.
The model table below gives groups of activities and API scores. Universities may detail the
activities or, in case institutional specificities require, adjust the weightages, without changing
the minimum total API score required under this category.

S. No Nature of Activity Maximum Score
1 Student related co-curricular, extension and field based activities (such 20
as extension work through NSS/NCC and other channels, cultural
activities, subject related events, advisement and counseling)
2 Contribution to Corporate life and management of the department 15
and institution through participation in academic and administrative
committees and responsibilities.
3 Professional Development activities (such as participation in seminars, 15
conferences, short term, training courses, talks, lectures, membership
of associations, dissemination and general articles, not covered in
Category III below)
Minimum API Score Required 15
Note:

The model table proposes API scores and the mode for awarding these scores for various
parameters of Category II of PBAS.

1. Wherever the unit of assessment is the number of hours, the teacher is required to compute
the total number of hours allocated as per the time-table or the actual number of hours spent
in that activity in the precious academic year. The institution can verify these from the official
Time Table and the record of students’ attendance.

2. In calculating the number of hours allocated, only working days/weeks will be taken into
account. For example, if a teacher has been assigned 20 hours of classroom teaching per
week, in an institution that teaches for 16 weeks per semester, the teacher would write 320
hours (plus another 320 hours if his/her teaching load is the same in the second semester) in
the row 1A(i). Since this is 2 hours higher than the UGC norm, s/he would claim additional
2 x 16 hours in row 1A(ii). If s/he has actually taught for 275 hours in that semester, s/he
would claim 275 hours in row 1A(iii). So, in all, s/he would get credit for 320+32+275 = 627
hours for that semester. S/he would do similar calculation for the second semester and the
total would do entered in each row.
3. In most sub-categories, the total score of a teacher may exceed the maximum score permitted
against the relevant sub-total. In that case, the score of the teacher will be credited the
maximum score. For example, a teacher who marks 900 scripts can get credit for 300 hours

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