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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 11th October, 2021
No. F.9-1/2010(PS/MISC)Pt. Vol.I.—In exercise of the powers conferred under clause (e) and
(g) of sub-section (1) of section 26 read with section 14 of the University Grants Commission Act,
1956 (3 of 1956), the University Grants Commission hereby makes the following amendment in
the University Grants Commission (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers and
other Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and other Measures for the Maintenance of
Standards in Higher Education) Regulations, 2018, namely:-

1. Short title and commencement.-(1) These regulations may be called the University
Grants Commission (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers and other
Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and other Measures for the Maintenance of
Standards in Higher Education) Amendment Regulations, 2021.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the University Grants Commission (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of
Teachers and other Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and other Measures for
the Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education) Regulations, 2018, in regulation 3,
for sub-regulation 3.10, the following sub-regulation shall be substituted, namely:-
3.10 ‘‘The Ph.D. Degree shall be a mandatory qualification for direct recruitment to
the post of Assistant Professor in Departments of the Universities with effect from
01.07.2023”
Prof. RAJNISH JAIN, Secy.
[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./320/2021-22]

Note: The Principal regulations were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary under Part
III, Section 4 vide No. F.1-2/2017(EC/PS) dated 18th July, 2018.

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