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8. The respondent University has filed its reply wherein preliminary submission regarding the very maintainability of the petition has been raised on the ground that the petitioner(s) is ineligible in terms of the advertisement No.3/2011 as they do not possess .
NET/SLET/SET or qualification of Ph.D Degree as per the University Grants Commission (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of Ph.D Degree) of Regulations, 2009 and the amended Ordinances of the respondent University in this regard.
9. The petitioner claims to be fully eligible for being appointed as Assistant Professor in the Guest faculty in Sanskrit department of H.P. University and has questioned the selection of the respondents 4 to 7 on the grounds taken in the petition.
10. The respondent University in its reply has averred that the petitioner was not eligible for being appointed as Assistant Professor as she has not submitted any certificate of her qualifying NET/SLET/SET which was an essential qualification.
11. On the other hand, case of the petitioner is that the candidates who had received Ph.D degrees upto 31st December, 2009 or who had got themselves registered for Ph.D before 10.7.2009 were exempted from qualifying NET/SLET/SET. Meaning thereby, that .
the petitioner admittedly has not qualified NET/SLET/SET.
12. The petitioners in all the above petitions of have admittedly not qualified the NET/SLET/SET but their specific case as pleaded is that the University rt Grants Commission (Minimum Standard and Procedure for Award of Ph.D Degree) Regulation, 2009 dated 1.6.2009, specifically provide for exemption to candidates from NET/SLET/SET who are or have been awarded a Ph.D degree in accordance with the UGC (Minimum Standard and Procedure for Award of Ph.D Degree) Regulation, 2009. It is further claimed that as per letter dated 28.8.2009, the UGC had left it to the respective Universities/colleges and institutions to decide as to whether the degree of Ph.D awarded to various candidates is in compliance to the provisions of Regulations, 2009 (supra).
28. In pursuance of the said directive, the UGC promulgated the impugned Regulations of 2009, the 3rd Amendment of which provides as follows:-
"NET/SLET shall remain the minimum eligibility condition for recruitment and appointment of Lecturers in Universities/Colleges/ Institutions.
Provided, however, that candidates, who are or have been awarded Ph.D. Degree in compliance of the "University Grants Commission (minimum standards and procedure for award of Ph.D. Degree), Regulation 2009, shall be exempted from the requirement of the minimum eligibility condition of NET/SLET for recruitment and appointment of Assistant Professor or equivalent position in Universities/ Colleges/Institutions."