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"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 positions in Universities/Colleges/Institutions.

10. Mr. Chaudhari also submitted that it was necessary to have a test to judge the abilities and standard of innumerable candidates who wish and aspire to secure the job of a Lecturer in colleges and universities. Keeping this objective in mind, the retention of NET/SLET as a compulsory requirement was insisted upon for appointment to the post of Lecturer for both undergraduate and post graduate level, irrespective of the candidate possessing M.Phil or Ph.D degree. It was submitted by Mr. Chaudhari that the NET/SLET is not an examination for degree but an eligibility test to determine the merit in an objective manner and the Regulations, 2009 were issued in this background.

(2) the UGC shall notify the date or dates from which exemption from qualifying in NET/SLET in respect of Universities/Institutions Deemed to be Universities as well as the discipline for which such exemption is being granted only on the recommendations of a Committee of Experts to be constituted by the Commission and that the experts therein shall be persons of high eminence in the respective disciplines for which the persons possessing Ph.D. are considered for exemption from qualifying NET/SLET.
(3) The UGC shall not give any blanket or general exemption from NET/SLET to any University/Institution Deemed to be University unless the degree of Ph.D. awarded by it in all disciplines or programmes meet the same level of rigour in terms of standards and quality as laid down by the Commission for each discipline under the regulations for the purpose, and that exemption from NET/SLET in respect of Ph.D. awarded by any University/Institution Deemed to be University or to one or more of its programmes/disciplines in respect of such Ph.D. shall be further subject to the University/Institution continuing to comply with the regulations of the UGC and shall be open to review or reconsideration by the Commission; and, such exemption shall be withdrawn in any or all disciplines or in respect of an award of Ph.D. to any person or persons, where the Commission has, on the basis of recommendation by the Committee of experts or on the basis of any inquiry conducted by it suo moto, reasons to believe that there has been deviation from or violation of the procedure prescribed by Commission."