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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

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) (2nd Amendment) Regulations, 2023

NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 30th June, 2023

No. F. 9-1/2010(PS/MISC)Pt. Vol. II.—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) (2nd Amendment) Regulations, 2023.
(2) They shall come into force with effect from 1st July, 2023.
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 ‘‘NET/SET/SLET shall be the minimum criteria for the direct recruitment to the
post of Assistant Professor for all Higher Education Institutions.”
As a consequence, in regulation 3, for sub-regulation 3.10, of 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) (1st
Amendment) Regulations, 2021 stands deleted.

Prof. MANISH JOSHI, Secy.
[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./249/2023-24]
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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