Section 15A(1)(c) in The Gauhati University Act, 1947
(c)In making recommendations for the appointment of Readers or Lecturers and other teachers of the University the Selection Committee shall co-opt the Head of the Department concerned, one Professor of the Department to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor and two persons to be nominated by the Executive Council out of a panel of not less than five names of persons recommended by the Academic Council being persons not connected with the University, who have special knowledge of or interest in the subject for which the Reader of Lecturer is to be selected :