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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

(e) Refrain from allowing considerations of caste, creed, religion, race, gender or sex
in their professional endeavour.
18.0 Maintenance of Standards in Higher-Education Institutions:
In order to maintain the academic standards in higher education, the following recommendations
shall be adopted by the respective Universities/Colleges/Institutions:
i. The process of evaluation for Ph.D shall be uniform in all the universities in accordance
with the respective UGC Regulations and their amendments from time to time, in
this regard. The Universities shall adopt these Regulations within six months of their
notification.
ii. There shall be special provision of supernumerary Ph.D seats not exceeding 10% of
the total seats available in the department, if there is no vacant seat available with the
eligible Supervisors in that department, to the in-service teachers for encouraging the
faculty members of colleges and universities for getting a Ph.D. degree.

iii. In order to encourage research and increase country‘s research output, Universities shall
accord permission and provide need-based facility for college teachers to supervise
Ph.D./M.Phil. scholars. Universities shall amend their Statutes and Ordinances
accordingly.
iv. All newly-recruited faculty members shall be provided one-time seed money/start up
grant/research grant for establishing a basic research/computational facility as per the
provisions laid down in these regulations.
v. The Ph.D. degree shall be made a mandatory requirement for recruitment and promotions
in accordance with the provisions laid down in these Regulations.
vi. Research clusters shall be created amongst the universities/colleges/research
institutions within the state for sharing research facilities, human resources, skills and
infrastructure to ensure optimal utilisation of resources and to create synergies among
higher education institutions.
vii. An induction programme of one month shall be introduced for all newly-recruited
Assistant Professors in the universities /colleges/institutions ideally before the starting
of their teaching work, but definitely within one year of the recruitment of the new
faculty member. In addition to the Human Resource Development Centres of the UGC,
Universities/Institutions with the Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on
Teachers and Teaching(PMMMNMTT) scheme shall also organize such induction
programmes as per their mandate.
viii. These induction programmes shall be treated at par with the Orientation Programmes
already being run by the Human Resource Development Centres of the UGC for the
purpose of the CAS requirements.

Universities/Colleges/Institutions shall send the faculty members to such programmes
in a phased manner so that the teaching work does not suffer.

ix. All short-term and long-duration capacity-building programmes for teachers/faculty
ranging from one week to one month as well as seminars, workshops in different
pedagogic and discipline-specific areas being conducted by centres such as Schools of
Education (SoEs), Teaching Learning Centres (TLCs), Faculty Development Centres
(FDCs), Centres for Excellence in Science and Mathematics (CESMEs), Centres for
Academic Leadership and Education Management (CALEMs) under the PMMMNMTT
scheme shall be taken into consideration for fulfilment of the requirements as laid down
in Career Advancement Scheme of these Regulations.

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