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API score 340 against
                                                                               API score     110
                                                                               required       and     4
                                                                               activities      involved
                                                                               against        minimum
                                                                               required 3 activities.

5. The Writ Petition is resisted by the respondent University by filing a counter-affidavit. According to the counter-affidavit, the petitioner was given Career Advancement as an Associate Professor with effect from 14.09.2016. Thereafter, the petitioner submitted her CAS application, dated 20.02.2020 for CAS promotion from Associate Professor (Stage 4) to https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Professor (Stage 5). As per the orders, further process about her CAS promotion was done and after receiving satisfactory evaluation reports and API score, she was called to appear before the Selection Committee on 11.02.2022. However, her CAS as Professor was not recommended by the Selection Committee. The Selection Committee report was placed before the syndicate and the same was also approved vide the action taken report, dated 17.03.2023. As per the UGC regulations, if a candidate does not succeed in the first assessment, he/she has to be re-assessed only after one year. Subsequently, Disciplinary Proceedings are now sought to be initiated against the petitioner concerning her continuous absence in the Research Review Committee. The petitioner has also separately filed a Writ Petition concerning the said proceedings, whereunder, this Court directed her to give an explanation to the show-cause notice and the proceedings are pending.

22. Regulations 6.1 to 6.3 prescribe the various tables and methods of assessing criteria such as API scores etc. Regulation 6.4 provides for the https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis steps of promotion under CAS. Under the scheme, the Assistant Professor would first get advancement to Senior Scale/Academic Level 11, then, the second Career Advancement from Senior Scale/Academic Level 11 to Selection Grade/Academic Level 12. The third Career Advancement is Assistant Professor (Selection Grade/Academic Level 12) to Associate Professor (Academic Level 13A). The fourth level is the Associate Professor (Academic Level 13A) to the Professor (Academic Level 14).

23. On a careful reading of Regulation 6.4, it will be clear that once the candidate possesses minimum qualification in terms of the API score etc., the promotion will be granted if she fulfills the promotion criteria mentioned therein. As far as the first and second advancement from Academic Level 10 to Academic Level 11 and Academic Level 11 to Selection Grade/Academic Level 12 in the post of Assistant Professor is concerned, the twin criteria is that she should get a satisfactory or good grade in the annual performance assessment report for the last four and five https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis years concerning the assessment period and the promotion should be recommended by the Screening-cum-Evaluation Committee. The procedure is slightly changed when it comes to the next levels of promotion from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor and Associate Professor to Professor. Here, the candidate, apart from possessing minimum eligibility standards, should also possess a satisfactory or good grade in the annual performance assessment report of atleast two of the last assessment period and the promotion should also be recommended by the Selection Committee in accordance with the Regulations. The relevant Regulation concerning the Career Advancement from Associate Professor to Professor is extracted hereunder:-