(1) In a composite private aided Pre-University college, fifty per cent of the total posts of the lecturers shall be filled by promotion from the cadre of Secondary School Assistants- if on the date of arising of vacancy a Secondary School Assistant is eligible for promotion, in accordance with sub-rule (2).
(2) A Secondary School Assistant working in a composite private aided Pre-University college shall be eligible for promotion to the post of a lecturer, if the Secondary School Assistant possesses a post graduation degree in the subject in which he teaches in the high school.
(3) When a private higher secondary school or high school gets upgraded to a Pre- University college, the headmaster of that school may act as the principal of the Pre-University college, for the first two years of the up-gradation even if the headmaster is not academically qualified to be a lecturer. But, the headmaster shall not be eligible to become the principal beyond a period of four years unless the headmaster has a post graduation degree in any of the subjects taught in that Pre-University college and has served as headmaster for a minimum period of five years or otherwise the managing committee shall take necessary action for filling the post of principal by appointing either a lecturer from the same or any other college who has put in not less than five years of service as a lecturer in a recognised college in a post approved by the Department or a person who has worked as a principal in another Pre-University college which has been recognized by the Government.