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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

Further, in order to avoid any hardship, the candidates who fulfil all other criteria
mentioned in these Regulations, as on and till the date on which these regulations
are notified, can be considered for promotion from the date, on or after the date,
on which they fulfil these eligibility conditions.

II. The Selection Committee specifications as contained in Clauses 5.1 to 5.4 shall
be applicable to all direct recruitments of faculty positions and equivalent cadres
and Career Advancement promotions from Assistant Professor to Associate
Professor, from Associate Professor to Professor, Professor to Senior Professor
(in University) and for equivalent cadres.
III. The CAS promotion from a lower stage to a higher stage of Assistant Professor
shall be conducted through a “Screening-cum-Evaluation Committee”, following
the criteria laid down in Table1 of Appendix II.
IV. The promotion under the CAS being a personal promotion to a teacher holding a
substantive sanctioned post, on his/her superannuation, the said post shall revert
back to its original cadre.
V. For the promotion under the CAS, the applicant teacher must be on the role and
in active service of the University/College on the date of consideration by the
Selection Committee.
VI. The candidate shall offer himself/herself for assessment for promotion, if he/she
fulfils the minimum grading specified in the relevant Assessment Criteria and
Methodology Tables, by submitting an application and the required Assessment
Criteria and Methodology Proforma. He/she can do so three months before
the due date. The university shall send a general circular twice a year, inviting
applications for the CAS promotions from the eligible candidates.

i) If a candidate applies for promotion on completion of the minimum
eligibility period and is successful, the date of promotion shall be from
that of minimum period of eligibility.
ii) If, however, the candidate finds that he/she would fulfils the CAS promotion
criteria, as defined in Tables 1, 2, 4, and 5 of Appendix II at a later date and
applies on that date and is successful, his/her promotion shall be effected
from that date of the candidate fulfilling the eligibility criteria.
iii) The candidate who does not succeed in the first assessment, he/she shall
have to be re-assessed only after one year. When such a candidate succeeds
in the eventual assessment, his/her promotion shall be deemed to be one
year from the date of rejection.
VII. Regarding the cases pending for promotions from one Academic Level/Grade Pay
to another Academic Level/Grade Pay under the Career Advancement Scheme
provided under the UGC Regulations on Minimum
Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers and other Academic Staff in
Universities and Colleges and Measures for the Maintenance of Standards in
Higher Education 2010 and its subsequent amendments, the teachers shall be
given the option to be considered for the promotion from one Academic Level/
Grade Pay to another Academic Level/Grade Pay as per the following:
(a) The teachers shall be considered for promotion from one Academic Level/
Grade Pay to another as per the CAS under these Regulations.
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