New Delhi, 24 November 2021: University of Delhi (DU), a Central University, has extended the deadline of application portal for recruitment of Assistant Professors. The total number of vacant posts are 267 in various departments.
The application portal has opened from 01 November 2021. Earlier the closing date of application portal had been scheduled on 22 November 2021. After extension of the deadline, the revised date for closing date for submission of the application is 07 December 2021.
The UGC has extended the date of applicability of PhD as mandatory qualification for direct recruitment of Assistant Professors from 01 July 2021 to 01 July 2023.
Accordingly, PhD will not be a mandatory qualification for this advertisement.
University of Delhi (DU) has released the employment notice yesterday (24 September 2021) on its official website under Advt. No. Estab. IV/291/2021 dated 20.09.2021. Earlier the total number vacant posts were 251. Then in an addendum notice, the vacant posts have hiked to 267 posts.
DU is an Institute of Eminence by the University Grants Commission under Ministry of Education. Students from any state and union territory can apply for these above posts as DU is a Central university.
Pay Scale of Assistant Professor: In the Academic Pay Level 10 as per 7th Central Pay Commission Pay Matrix.
Key Dates:
The application portal has opened from 01 November 2021.
After extension of the deadline, the revised date for closing date for submission of the application is 07 December 2021.
List of Departments with Number of Vacant Posts:
| Name of Departments | No of Posts |
| African Studies | 1 |
| Anthropology | 1 |
| Bio-Physics | 2 |
| Botany | 3 |
| Buddhist Studies | 6 |
| Chemistry | 14 |
| Cluster Innovation Centre | 2 |
| Commerce | 17 |
| (Dr.) B.R. Ambedkar Research Centre for Bio-Medical Research | 2 |
| East Asian Studies | 7 |
| Education | 2 |
| Electronic Science | 2 |
| English | 2 |
| Finance and Business Economics | 4 |
| Geography | 2 |
| Geology | 2 |
| Germanic & Romance Studies | 14 |
| Hindi | 19 |
| History | 1 |
| Institute of Informatics & Communication | 1 |
| Law | 22 |
| Library & Information Science | 2 |
| Linguistics | 4 |
| Management Studies | 29 |
| Mathematics | 2 |
| Modern Indian Languages & Literary Studies | 11 |
| Music | 16 |
| Operational Research | 3 |
| Persian | 2 |
| Philosophy | 2 |
| Physics & Astrophysics | 17 |
| Plant Molecular Biology | 2 |
| Political Science | 16 |
| Psychology | 6 |
| Punjabi | 1 |
| Slavonic & Finno-Ugrian Studies | 7 |
| Sociology | 4 |
| Statistics | 5 |
| Women’s Studies & Dev. Centre | 1 |
| Zoology | 11 |
| Total | 267 |
The notification mentioned that the details regarding qualifications, experience, screening guidelines and indicative proforma etc. are available on the University website www.du.ac.in, along with this advertisement.
For eligibility, how to apply and other details the candidates should visit the official website of University of Delhi.
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