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ii) EXPERIENCE:
a) For the Post of Professor:
Total teaching experience of ten years in concerned subject is necessary out of which there should be five years teaching experience as Reader/Associate Professor in concerned subject.
b) For the Post of Associate Professor (Reader):
Teaching experience of five years in concerned subject. (Reader will be treated as Associate Professor).
c) For the post of Asst. Professor (Lecturer): (age not exceeding 40 years).

No teaching experience is required. Lecturer will be treated as Asst. Professor.

8. We have considered the submissions made by both the sides in the written pleadings and during oral arguments. The first issue that needs to be addressed is whether there exists a provision for relaxing the postgraduate qualification in respect of 1989 appointees. The CCIM Regulations of 2012 provide a Note below Regulation-12 regarding qualification and experience for teaching staff for UG teachers as follows:

(b) The teacher(s) who had been considered eligible in the post on the basis of previous Regulations shall not be considered ineligible on the basis of amendment. According to the applicant it refers to the provision of 12 (i)(b) that stipulates that a Post-graduate qualification for the post of teaching staff. The respondents, on the other hand, have argued that this refers only to the table in the Note below which this has been mentioned. A plain reading of the aforementioned note would indicate that the words teacher(s) who had been considered eligible in the past on the basis of previous Regulations is related to the words the candidates of the following subjects as mentioned against them shall be eligible for the post of Lecturer/Assistant Professor mentioned above the Table. The clause (a) below the table limits the applicability of this relaxation only for 05 years and clause (b) exempts earlier decision with regard to eligibility in respect of Specialty required. The clauses (a) and (b) below the Table are, therefore, linked to the provisions contained in the Note and the Table in it. We do not agree with the submission of the learned counsel for the applicant that the CCIM Regulations of 2012 contains a provision that would exempt the pre-1989 appointees from possessing postgraduate qualification for promotion to higher posts. As a corollary, we also do not find the Rules framed by the respondents and notified in 2013 to be inconsistent with the provisions of CCIM Regulations of 2012. The learned counsel of applicant has also drawn our attention to the notification issued by the CCIM on 24.05.2013 in respect of Unani stream where there is a specific provision that Teachers appointed and working in recognized Unani colleges prior to this notification shall be eligible for appointment or promotion for the post of Professor, Associate Professor (Reader) and Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the respective discipline without post-graduate qualification. This provision does put a question mark on the CCIM Regulations, 2012 in respect of Ayurveda stream. The CCIM should examine whether the logic and reasons behind the exemption clause in the Regulations for the Unani stream would be applicable to Ayurveda stream as well.