Assistant Professor (Pay Scale: 15600- 39100+6000 AGP) | Agriculture Jobs

Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 

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Assistant Professor (Pay Scale: 15600- 39100+6000 AGP) (*)

Agriculture : Horticulture-1 (SC)

Qualifications :

i. Good academic record as defined by the Guru Nanak Dev University with; 

a) B.Sc. Agriculture 

b) Master’s Degree in the relevant discipline with at least 55% marks (or an equivalent grade in a point scale wherever grading system is followed) from an Indian University, or an equivalent degree from an accredited foreign university. 

ii. Besides fulfilling the above qualifications, the candidate must have qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) in the relevant discipline conducted by ASRB/UGC/CSIR.

iii. Candidates, who are, or have been awarded a Ph. D. Degree in accordance with the University Grants Commission (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of Ph.D. Degree) Regulations, 2009 or the subsequent Regulations if notified by the UGC, shall be exempted from the requirement of the minimum eligibility condition of NET conducted by ASRB/UGC/CSIR for recruitment and appointment of Assistant Professor or equivalent positions in Universities / Colleges /Institutions

Provided further, the award of degree to candidates registered for the M.Phil./Ph.D. programme prior to July 11,2009, shall be governed by the provisions of the then existing Ordinances/Bylaws/Regulations of the Institutions awarding the degree and the Ph.D. candidates shall be exempted from the requirement of NET conducted by ASRB/UGC/CSIR for recruitment and appointment of Assistant Professor or equivalent positions in Universities/Colleges/Institutions subject to the fulfillment of the following conditions:-

a) Ph.D. degree of the candidate awarded in regular mode only; b) Evaluation of the Ph.D. thesis by at least two external examiners; c) Open Ph.D. viva voce of the candidate had been conducted; d) Candidate has published two research papers from his/her Ph.D. work out of which at least one must be in a refereed journal; e) Candidate has made at least two presentations in conferences/ seminars, based on his/her Ph.D. work. (a) to (e) as above are to be certified by the Vice-Chancellor/Pro-ViceChancellor/Dean(AcademicAffairs)/Dean(University instructions) of the degree awarding university.

iv. A relaxation of 5% may be provided at the graduate and Masters level for the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes/Differently-abled (physically and visually differently-abled) /Other Backward Classes (OBC) (Non-creamy layer) categories for the purpose of eligibility and for assessing good academic records during direct recruitment to teaching positions. The eligibility marks of 55% marks (or an equivalent grade in a point scale wherever grading system is followed) and the relaxation of 5% to the categories mentioned above are permissible, based on only the qualifying marks without including any grace mark procedures

v. A relaxation of 5% is admissible, from 55% to 50% of the marks to the Ph.D. Degree holders, who have obtained their Master’s Degree prior to 19 September 1991

vi. Good academic record means at least 2nd class with 50% marks in graduation level.

Candidates are required to apply in the online mode only through Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar website www.gndu.ac.in. No other means/mode of application (through post, email, fax, deposit of CV etc.) will be accepted. 

For more details, please refer to official notification at Download Official Notification

NOTE

Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar Advertisement No. 10/2019 Online applications are invited for the various Teaching and Non-Teaching posts in the University. Online registration of application for these posts will start w.e.f. 14.12.2019 and end on 28.12.2019. Last Date for submitting Hard Copy of the Online submitted application is 03.01.2020. For further details visit University Website: http://www.gndu.ac.in.