As a statutory organisation of the Government of India, the University Grants Commission(UGC) was created in 1953 and formally instituted in 1956 under the Act of Parliament, the University Grants Commission Act of 1956. The UGC, placed under the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, is responsible for supervising and preserving the standards of Higher Education in India. It oversees to check on the University Education’s quality of teaching, research and examination. A Professor of Practice is a designation where the person appointed to the faculty duty’s primary role is incorporating skill-based, practical, real-life teachings into Academic Education. The UGC, which pioneered in introducing this designation to institute industry professional experts into Academia, has reversed its decision to make a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) an obligation and the minimum requirement for direct recruitment for the Assistant Professor role would be the National Eligibility Test (NET), State Eligibility Test (SET) and State Level Eligibility Test(SLET).
