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11. The crucial qualification issue as to whether a Ph.D holder is entitled to get exemption from passing the NET/SLET/SET for appointment as Assistant Professor is no longer res integra. The Hon'ble Division Bench of this Court in P.Susheela and others v. University Grants Commission represented by its Chairman, New Delhi and another, 2011 (2) CTC 593 has held in paragraph-49 that the NET/SLET should be retained as compulsory requirement for appointment of Lecturers irrespective of the candidates possessing degree in M.Phil or Ph.D, holding further that the Central Government has rightly refused to approve the decision of the University Grants Commission to give relaxation to certain candidates possessing M.Phil or Ph.D from appearing in NET/SLET examination, without considering the object and purpose of raising the standard of education, rather the decision is lawful and based on public interest. The relevant paragraph of the judment of the Division Bench reads as follows:-

25.....The other appeals from the Delhi, Madras and Rajasthan High Courts are, consequently, also dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs.?

14. The above detailed discussion made by the Apex Court makes the picture very clear that when a similar exemption was granted to M.Phil and Ph.D holders not to pass NET/SLET/SET as the minimum eligibility condition for appointment as Lecturer/Assistant Professor in universities/colleges/institutions, the Apex Court, refusing to accept the said exemption, holding that the policy of the Central Government that a common uniform nationwide test should be the minimum eligibility condition for appointment of Lecturer/Assistant Professor in universities/colleges/institutions, has made the pass in NET/SLET/SET as the minimum eligibility condition, for the obvious reason that M.Phil or Ph.D degrees are granted by different universities/institutions having differing standards of excellence, because some of the universities, which did not have stringent standards of excellence, grant this type of degrees. Therefore, as envisaged by the Central Government, the need for bringing a national entrance test as a minimum eligibility condition for appointment of Lecturer/Assistant Professor has become necessary.