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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

CAS Promotion Criteria :
A teacher shall be promoted if;
i) He/she gets a ‘satisfactory‘ or ‘good‘ grade in the annual performance
assessment reports of at least three/four/five of the last four/five/six
years of the assessment period as the case may be (as provided in
Appendix II,Table 1), and; ii) The promotion is recommended by
the screening-cum evaluation committee.
II. Assistant Professor (Senior Scale/Academic Level 11) to Assistant
Professor (Selection Grade/Academic Level 12)
Eligibility:
i) Assistant Professors who has completed five years of service in
Academic Level 11/Senior Scale.
ii) A Ph.D. Degree in the subject relevant/allied/relevant discipline.
iii) Has done any two of the following in the last five years of Academic
Level 11/Senior Scale: Completed a course / programme from
amongst the categories of Refresher Courses/Research Methodology/
Workshops/ Syllabus Up-gradation Workshop/ Teaching-Learning-
Evaluation/ Technology Programmes / Faculty Development
Programme of at least two weeks (ten days) duration (or completed
two courses of at least one week (five days) duration in lieu of
every single course/programme of at least two weeks (ten days)
duration), or, completed one MOOCs course in the relevant subject
(with e-certification); or contribution towards the development
of e-content in 4-quadrant (at least one quadrant) minimum of 10
modules of a course/contribution towards the development of at
least 10 modules of MOOCs course/ contribution towards conduct
of a MOOCs course during the period of assessment.
iv) Published three research papers in the peer-reviewed journals or
UGC-listed journals during assessment period.
CAS Promotion Criteria:
A teacher shall be promoted if;
i) The teacher gets a ‘satisfactory‘ or ‘good‘ grade in the annual
performance assessment reports of at least four of the last five years
of the assessment period, (as prescribed in Appendix II, Table 1) and;
ii) The promotion is recommended by the Screening-cum-evaluation
committee.
III. Assistant Professor (Selection Grade/Academic Level 12) to Associate
Professor (Academic Level 13A)

1) Assistant Professor who has completed three years of service in Academic
Level 12/ Selection grade.
2) A Ph.D Degree in the subject concerned/allied/relevant discipline.
3) Any one of the following during last three years: completed one course /
programme from amongst the categories of Refresher Courses/ Research
Methodology Workshops/Syllabus Up-gradation Workshop/ Teaching-
Learning-Evaluation Technology Programme/ Faculty Development
Programme of at least two weeks (ten days) duration (or completed two
courses of at least one week (five days) duration in lieu of every single
course/programme of at least two weeks (ten days) duration); or completed

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