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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

3.5. A relaxation of 5% shall be provided, (from 55% to 50% of the marks) to the Ph.D.
Degree holders who have obtained their Master‘s Degree prior to19 September, 1991.
3.6 A relevant grade which is regarded as equivalent of 55%, wherever the grading system is
followed by a recognized university, at the Master‘s level shall also be considered valid.
3.7 The Ph.D. Degree shall be a mandatory qualification for appointment and promotion to
the post of Professor.

3.8 The Ph.D. Degree shall be a mandatory qualification for appointment and promotion to
the post of Associate Professor.

3.9 The Ph.D. Degree shall be a mandatory qualification for promotion to the post of
Assistant Professor (Selection Grade/Academic Level 12) in Universities.
3.10 The Ph.D. Degree shall be a mandatory qualification for direct recruitment to the post
of Assistant Professor in Universities with effect from 01.07.2021.
3.11 The time taken by candidates to acquire M.Phil. and / or Ph.D. Degree shall not be
considered as teaching/ research experience to be claimed for appointment to the
teaching positions. Further the period of active service spent on pursuing Research
Degree simultaneously with teaching assignment without taking any kind of leave, shall
be counted as teaching experience for the purpose of direct recruitment/ promotion.
Regular faculty members upto twenty per cent of the total faculty strength (excluding
faculty on medical / maternity leave) shall be allowed by their respective institutions to
take study leave for pursuing Ph.D. degree.
3.12 Qualifications:

No person shall be appointed to the post of University and College teacher, Librarian
or Director of Physical Education and Sports, in any university or in any of institutions
including constituent or affiliated colleges recognised under clause (f) of Section 2
of the University Grants commission Act, 1956 or in an institution deemed to be a
University under Section 3 of the said Act if such person does not fulfil the requirements
as to the qualifications for the appropriate post as provided in the Schedule 1 of these
Regulations.
4.0 Direct Recruitment
4.1 For the Disciplines of Arts, Commerce, Humanities, Education, Law, Social
Sciences, Sciences, Languages, Library Science, Physical Education, and
Journalism & Mass Communication. I. Assistant Professor:
Eligibility (A or B) : A.

i) A Master‘s degree with 55% marks (or an equivalent grade in a point-scale
wherever the grading system is followed) in a concerned/relevant/allied subject
from an Indian University, or an equivalent degree from an accredited foreign
university.

Besides fulfilling the above qualifications, the candidate must have cleared the
National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by the UGC or the CSIR, or a similar
test accredited by the UGC, like

SLET/SET or who are or 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) Regulations, 2009 or 2016 and their amendments from
time to time as the case may be exempted from NET/SLET/SET :

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