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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

3.3
I. The National Eligibility Test (NET) or an accredited test (State Level Eligibility
Test SLET/SET) shall remain the minimum eligibility for appointment of Assistant
Professor and equivalent positions wherever provided in these Regulations.
Further, SLET/SET shall be valid as the minimum eligibility for direct recruitment
to Universities/Colleges/Institutions in the respective state only:
Provided that candidates who have been awarded a Ph.D. Degree in accordance
with the University Grants
Commission (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M.Phil./Ph.D.
Degree) Regulation, 2009, or the University Grants Commission (Minimum
Standards and Procedure for Award of M.Phil/Ph.D. Degree) Regulation,2016,
and their subsequent amendments from time to time, as the case may be, shall
be exempted from the requirement of the minimum eligibility condition of
NET/SLET/SET for recruitment and appointment of Assistant Professor or any
equivalent position in any University, College or Institution.

Provided further that the award of degree to candidates registered for the M.Phil/
Ph.D.programme prior to July 11, 2009, shall be governed by the provisions of
the then existing Ordinances / Bye-laws / Regulations of the Institutions awarding
the degree. All such Ph.D. candidates shall be exempted from the requirement
of NET/SLET/SET for recruitment and appointment of Assistant Professor or
equivalent positions in Universities/Colleges/Institutions subject to the fulfillment
of the following conditions:

a) The Ph.D. degree of the candidate has been awarded in regular mode only;
b) The Ph.D. thesis has been awarded by at least two external examiners;
c) An open Ph.D. viva voce of the candidate has been conducted;
d) The candidate has published two research papers from his/her Ph.D. work
out of which at least one is in a refereed journal;
e) The candidate has presented at least two papers, based on his/her Ph.D.
work in conferences/seminars sponsored/funded/supported by the UGC/
ICSSR/CSIR or any similar agency.
The fulfilment of these conditions is to be certified by the Registrar or the
Dean (Academic Affairs) of the University concerned.
II. The clearing of NET/SLET/SET shall not be required for candidates in such
disciplines for which NET/SLET/SET has not been conducted.
3.4 A minimum of 55% marks (or an equivalent grade in a point-scale, wherever the grading
system is followed) at the Master‘s level shall be the essential qualification for direct
recruitment of teachers and other equivalent cadres at any level.
I. A relaxation of 5% shall be allowed at the Bachelor’s as well as at the Master‘s level
for the candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe/Other Backward
Classes (OBC)(Non-creamy Layer)/Differentlyabled ((a) Blindness and low
vision; (b) Deaf and Hard of Hearing; (c) Locomotor disability including cerebral
palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid-attack victims and muscular dystrophy; (d)
Autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disability and mental illness;
(e) Multiple disabilities from amongst persons under (a) to (d) including deaf-
blindness) for the purpose of eligibility and assessing good academic record for
direct recruitment. The eligibility marks of 55% marks (or an equivalent grade in
a point scale wherever the grading system is followed) and the relaxation of 5%
to the categories mentioned above are permissible, based only on the qualifying
marks without including any grace mark procedure.
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