1. Permanent faculty members serving as Professors or Associate Professors at higher educational institutions with a Ph.D. and a minimum of five research publications in peer-reviewed or refereed journals, as well as permanent faculty members working as Assistant Professors with a Ph.D. and at least three research publications in peer-reviewed or refereed journals, may be recognized as Research Supervisors at the University.
2. Permanent faculty members serving as Professors or Associate Professors at higher educational institutions with a Ph.D. and a minimum of five research publications in peer-reviewed or refereed journals, as well as permanent faculty members working as Assistant Professors with a Ph.D. and at least three research publications in peer-reviewed or refereed journals, may be recognized as Research Supervisors at the University.
3. Ph.D. scholars working in central government, state government, and research institutions may take a Ph.D. guide from the same institute. Faculty or scientists in such research institutions who hold positions equivalent to Professor, Associate Professor, or Assistant Professor may be recognized as supervisors, provided they fulfill the aforementioned requirements.
4. In areas or disciplines where there are no, or only a limited number of peer-reviewed or refereed journals, the higher educational institution may relax the above condition to recognize a person as a Research Supervisor, with reasons documented in writing. Co-supervisors from within the same department, other departments of the same institution, or other institutions may be permitted with the approval of the competent authority. Adjunct faculty members shall not serve as Research Supervisors but may act as co-supervisors.
5. In the case of interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary research work, a Co-Supervisor or Joint Supervisor from outside the Department, School, Centre, College, University, industry, or foreign universities may be appointed if required. This appointment will be contingent upon the establishment of a legal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the concerned Department, Centre, College, University, or Industry.
6. An eligible Professor, Associate Professor, or Assistant Professor may guide up to eight (8), six (6), and four (4) Ph.D. scholars, respectively, at any given time. However, if there are no vacant seats, each supervisor may accommodate one RDET-exempted candidate (such as UGC-CSIR-IRF, GATE, INSPIRE Fellowship holders, or teachers) on a supernumerary basis, with special permission from the Research Degree Committee (RDC) or the Hon'ble Vice Chancellor. The additional supervision for research scholars will be permissible only for faculty serving at university campuses who have published in high-impact journals (SCL, ESCI, Scopus, Web of Science) during the last five years.
7. In case of relocation of a female PhD scholar due to marriage or otherwise, the research data shall be allowed to be transferred to the Higher Educational Institution to which the scholar intends to relocate, provided all the other conditions in these Regulations are followed, and the research work does not pertain to a project sanctioned to the parent Institution/Supervisor by any funding agency. The scholar is required to duly credit the parent institution and the supervisor for the research that has already been accomplished.
8. Faculty members with less than three years of service before superannuation shall not be permitted to take on new research scholars under their supervision. However, these faculty members are allowed to maintain their roles in supervising Ph.D. program scholars who are already registered until their superannuation and may act as co-supervisors after superannuation, but not beyond the age of 70 years.
9. Relatives of the candidate for the Ph.D. degree shall not act as supervisors. Relations will include father, mother, husband, wife, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, nephew, father-in-law, mother-in-law, or such other relations, as may he have determined by the Executive Council.
10. If unforeseen circumstances necessitate a change of supervisor, the Research Degree Committee shall appoint a new supervisor as a supervisory allotment.