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Definition :

Teacher, includes a physical director, P.S. Ramamohan Rao v. Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University, 1977 Supreme Today 93: 1997 (8) SCC 350.

Means a Principal, Professor, Assistant Professor, Reader, Lecturer or any other person holding a teaching post either on whole-time or part-time basis and appointed or recognised as such by the University for the purposes of imparting instruc-tion and conducting research in the University. [Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur Act, 2004, s. 2(18)]

Means the Professors, Readers and Lecturers appointed or recognised by the University. [University of Allahabad Act, 2005, s. 3(4)]

Teacher, the Physical Director gives his guidance or teaching to the students only in the evenings after the regular classes are over. It may also be that the University has not prescribed in writing any theoretical and practical classes for the students so far as physical education is concerned. But as pointed by us earlier, among various duties of the Physical Director, expressly or otherwise, are included the duty to teach the skills of various games as well as their rules and practices. The said duties bring him clearly within the main part of the definition as a 'teacher', P.S. Ramamohana Rao v. A.P. Agricultural University, (1997) 8 SCC 350: AIR 1997 SC 3433 (3439). [A.P. Agricultural University Act, 1963 (24 of 1963), s. 2(n) and 40]