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8 The respondent-State has filed its reply, wherein it is averred that the respondent-State has notified Recruitment and .

Promotion Rules for the post of Principal (college cadre) vide notification dated 27.2.2020, whereas UGC guidelines were issued on 18.7.2018. It is claimed that the petitioners are trying to mislead the court by creating confusion between appointment and promotion to the post of Principal (College cadre). According to the respondent-State, there are two modes of filling up posts of Principal (college cadre) in the State i.e. one by direct recruitment and another by way of promotion from amongst the Assistant Professors/Associate Professors working in the government colleges of the State. The State Government has adopted academic performance indicator (API) and performance based appraisal system (PBAS) proforma as notified by the UGC in its regulation dated 30.6.2010 vide letter dated 6.6.2011 and accordingly issued notification dated 17.3.2012.

Colleges, based on the API criteria based PBAS set out in this Regulation and reprints of five major publications of the candidates.

Provided that such publications submitted by the candidate shall have been published subsequent to the period from which the teacher was placed in the Assistant Professor stage-II.

11 According to the respondent-Sate, the UGC regulations and notifications only deal with cases pertaining to the appointment of Principals on direct basis, for which candidate must essentially possess Ph.D. degree, whereas in the State Rules, quota for these posts is merely 25%, whereas remaining 75% posts are to be filled on the basis of promotion, .