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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

IV. Senior Professor
(a) The Selection Committee for the post of Senior Professor in the University
shall consist of the following persons:
i) Vice Chancellor who shall be the Chairperson of the Committee.
ii) An academician not below the rank of Senior Professor/Professor
with minimum ten years experience who is the nominee of the
Visitor/Chancellor, wherever applicable.
iii) Three experts not below the rank of a Senior Professor/Professor
with a minimum of ten years’ experience in the subject/field
concerned nominated by the Vice-Chancellor out of the panel of
names approved by the relevant statutory body of the university.
iv) Dean (not below the rank of Senior Professor/Professor with
minimum ten years experience) of the faculty, wherever applicable.
v) Head/Chairperson (not below the rank of Senior Professor/Professor
with minimum ten years experience) or Senior-most Professor (not
below the rank of Senior Professor/Professor, with a minimum of
ten years’ experience) of the Department/School.
vi) An academician (not below the rank of a Senior Professor/Professor
with minimum ten years experience) representing SC/ST/OBC/
Minority / Women / Differently-abled categories, if any of candidates
representing these categories is the applicant, to be nominated by
the Vice Chancellor, if any of the above members of the selection
committee do not belong to that category.
(b) Four members, including two outside subject experts, shall constitute the
quorum.
V. Assistant Professor in Colleges, including Private and Constituent Colleges:

(a) The Selection Committee for the post of Assistant Professor in Colleges,
including Private and constituent Colleges shall consist of the following
persons:
i) Chairperson of the Governing Body of the college or his/her nominee
from amongst the members of the Governing body, who shall be the
Chairperson of the Committee.
ii) The Principal of the College.
iii) Head of the Department/Teacher-incharge of the subject concerned
in the College.

iv) Two nominees of the Vice-Chancellor of the affiliating university, of
whom one should be a subject-expert. In case of colleges notified/
declared as a minority educational institution, two nominees of
the Chairperson of the college from out of a panel of five names,
preferably from the minority community, recommended by the
Vice-Chancellor of the affiliating university, from the list of experts
suggested by the relevant statutory body of the college, of whom
one should be a subject-expert.
v) Two subject-experts not connected with the college who shall be
nominated by the Chairperson of the College governing body out
of a panel of five names recommended by the Vice-Chancellor from
the list of subject experts approved by the relevant statutory body

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