1. (a) For the purpose of appointment of Deans of Faculties, the Registrar shall maintain a register of those teachers (including Principals of Colleges) who are duly appointed as University Professors or in the rank of University Professor faculty-wise-arranged in order of seniority and the appointment of Deans in the Faculty concerned shall be made accordingly by rotation.

(b) In a Faculty in which there is no University Professor or Principal in the rank of University Professor, the Registrar shall maintain a list of Heads of University Departments in the rank of Reader in the Faculty concerned in order of seniority and the appointment of Dean, in that faculty shall be made accordingly by rotation.

(c) In the faculty in which there is even no University Department the Registrar shall maintain a list of Principals of colleges who are below the rank of University Professor, in order of seniority and the appointment of Dean in that faculty shall be made accordingly by rotation.

2. For the purpose of Article(l) (a), (b) (c) above the seniority shall be reckoned with effect from the date of appointment as or in the rank of University Professor, or as Reader or Principal as the case may be :

Provided that:—

(i) amongst two or more such teachers appointed in the same rank whose inter-seniority cannot be decided by relevant provisions of the statutes, the order of rotation shall be according to the year of establishment of the Department and/ or the college as the case may be;

(ii) If more than one such departments/colleges were established in the same year the order of rotation shall be according to the names of the departments/colleges arranged in alphabetical order in Hindi (Devnagari script)