23. Appointment and promotion of faculty members, officers and other employees.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, such number of Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors and Officers, shall be appointed by the Chairperson. The other employees, as may be necessary, shall be appointed by the Director. (2) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (1) the officers, faculty members and other employees of the Institute shall be appointed in such manner and with such designations and grades as may be prescribed by the rules. (3) The employees of the Institute appointed under this Act shall be entitled to such salary and allowances and shall be governed by such conditions of service as may be prescribed by the rules. (4) No person shall be appointed as a faculty member of the Institute, unless he fulfils the qualifications prescribed by the University Grants Commission, the All India Council for Technical Education or any other Central/State Regulatory Body and the regulations made under this Act, as the case may be, and recommended by a Selection Committee constituted in this behalf under this Act. (5) The Selection Committee for the appointment or promotion to a Professor, an Associate Professor, an Assistant Professor and other faculty members of the Institute shall consist of- (a) the Director who shall be the Chairperson of the Selection Committee; (b) the Dean; (c) three experts to be nominated by the Chairperson; and (d) such other persons as may be prescribed by the rules. (6) The Selection Committee constituted under this section shall follow such procedures as may be prescribed under the rules framed under this Act. (7) No recommendations made by the Selection Committee shall be considered to be valid, unless a majority of the members present support it: Provided that in the case of Selection Committee constituted under sub-section (5), the presence of at least two experts shall be necessary. (8) Where the Selection Committee fails to make a recommendation in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (7), the minutes of the Selection Committee shall be submitted to the Chairperson who shall forward the same, along with his views thereon, to the Governing Board for decision and the decision of the Board shall be final. (9) Where the recommendations of the Selection Committee are not acceptable to the Chairperson, it shall refer the whole case to the Board specifying the grounds of objection to such recommendations in precise terms, and the decision of the Board thereon shall be final: Provided that it shall be lawful for the Chairperson to refer the case to the Selection Committee for reconsideration or to require another Selection Committee to be constituted for consideration of the case.