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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

xvi. For posts at the entry level where no such advance increments were admissible
for possessing Ph.D./M.Phil. under the earlier schemes/regulations, the benefit

of advance of increments for possessing Ph.D./M.Phil shall be available to only
those appointments which have been made on or after the coming into force of
these Regulations.

19.2 Promotion

When an individual gets a promotion, his new pay on promotion would be fixed in the
Pay Matrix as follows:
On promotion, the teacher or equivalent position would be given a notional increment

in his/her existing Academic

Level of Pay, by moving him/her to the next higher Cell at that Level; and the pay
shown in this Cell would now be located in the new Academic Level corresponding to
the post to which he/she has been promoted. If a Cell identical with that pay is available
in the new Level, that Cell shall be the new pay, otherwise the next higher Cell in that

Level shall be the new pay of the teacher or equivalent position. If the pay arrived at in
this manner is less than the first Cell in the new Level, then the pay shall be fixed at the
first Cell of the new Level.

19.3 Allowances and Benefits

I. Other allowances and benefits, such as Hometown Travel Concession, Leave
Travel Concession, Special

Compensatory Allowances, Children’s Education Allowance, Transport
Allowance, House Rent Allowance, House Building Allowance, Deputation
Allowance, Travelling Allowance, Dearness Allowance, Area-based Special
Compensatory Allowance etc. for teachers and Library and Physical Education

and Sports Cadres, shall be as applicable to the Central Government employees
and be governed by the relevant rules as notified by the Government of India from
time to time.

II. Pension, Gratuity, ex-gratia compensation etc. as applicable to Central/State
Government employees shall also be applicable to teachers and Library and

Physical Education and Sports Cadres of Central/State Universities and Colleges
including affiliated and constituent Colleges as the case may be.

III. Medical Benefits: All medical benefits for teachers and Library and Physical
Education Cadres, shall be as applicable to the Central Government employees.
Further, the Teachers and Library and Physical Education Cadres may be placed
under Central Government Health Scheme or any other such scheme of the Central

Government/ Health Scheme of respective State Government, as the case may be,
for Central/State Universities/Colleges respectively.

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