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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

v) Participated in National/International Seminars/Conferences/Workshops
and/or recipient of National/International Awards/Fellowships;
vi) Ability to explain with logical reasoning the subject concerned;
vii) Adequate knowledge to teach theory, with illustrations in the said
discipline.
4.4 Yoga Discipline
I. Assistant Professor :
Eligibility (A or B) :

A. Good academic record, with at least 55% marks (or an equivalent grade in a point-
scale wherever the grading system is followed) at the Master‘s degree in Yoga
or any other relevant subject, or an equivalent degree from an Indian/foreign
University.
Besides fulfilling the above qualifications, the candidate must have cleared the
National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by the UGC, 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.

OR
B. A Master’s degree in any discipline with at least 55% marks (or an equivalent
grade in a point-scale wherever the grading system is followed) and a Ph.D.
Degree in Yoga* 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.
*Note: Considering the paucity of teachers in the newly-emerging field of Yoga,
this alternative has been provided and shall be valid only for five years from the
date of notification of these Regulations

II. ASSOCIATE PROPFESSOR
i) A good academic record, with a Ph.D. degree in the subject concerned or
in a relevant discipline.
ii) A Master‘s degree with at least 55% marks (or an equivalent grade in a
point-scale, wherever the grading system is followed).
iii) A minimum of eight years’ experience of teaching and/ or research in
an academic/research position equivalent to that of Assistant Professor in
a University, College or Accredited Research Institutions/Industry with
evidence of published work and a minimum of 7 publications as books
and / or research/policy papers in peer- reviewed or UGC listed journals
and a total research score of at least Seventy five (75), as per the criteria
given in Appendix II,Table 2.
III. PROFESSOR
Eligibility (A or B) : A.
i) An eminent scholar with Ph. D. degree in the subject concerned or in
an allied/relevant subject and published work of high quality, actively
engaged in research with evidence of published work, with a minimum
of 10 publications as books and/ or research/policy papers in the peer-
reviewed or UGC listed journals and a total research score of at least 120
as per the criteria given in Appendix II,Table 2.
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