University Grants Commission,
35-Ferozeshah Road
New Delhi-110001

Dear Sir,

I would like to congratulate you for a rigorous and thoughtful draft formulation of notification for the promotion of University/College teachers. This is destined to bring out transparency in the appointments and quality education in the country.  Nevertheless, I would like to manage your attention to clause of draft notification no. 4.3.0 (iii) where by the minimum qualification for the appointment of Associate Professor is "eight years teaching/research experience in regular position equivalent to Assistant Professor". This may affect the talent in following three ways:

1. A person working abroad as a Post-doc fellow or teacher on contract basis may not be able to apply for the post of Associate Professor in India.
2. An Assistant professor working in India with outstanding academic/publication record may not be eligible to apply for the post of Associate Professor unless he or she completes the required 8 years of teaching/research in a regular position.
3. A person working in a corporate sector for several years may not be able to migrate to University/Research Institute.

Therefore, it may be suggested to kindly modify the notification accordingly and the criteria of regular teaching/research may be dropped and/or replaced by some suitable alternate so as to cater the competent faculty in the Universities for betterment of teaching and research.   

With regards,
Dr. D. Prakash