The UGC agreed to this and developed the API system. Under the system, for an upward jump in the pay scale for an assistant professor and promotion to associate professor and, further, to ...

Instead of depending on API, the 2025 UGC draft regulations emphasise qualitative judgment and peer evaluation for assessing a scholar’s contributions. This evaluation process accommodates ...

While the previous UGC guidelines relied heavily on the Academic Performance Indicator (API) system, which reduced academic contributions to numerical scores. The 2025 draft completely eliminates ...