fake news was being circulated in the social media saying that the ministry of human resource development had issued a circular prescribing age limit for appointment of assistant professors in universities and colleges.

 member Prof G Gopal Reddy on Friday said a fake news was being circulated in the social media saying that the ministry of human resource development had issued a circular prescribing age limit for appointment of assistant professors in universities and colleges.

It’s a completely false news and the MHRD has not put any cap on the upper age limit for recruitment of assistant professors. This is a mischief by people with vested interests and aimed at creating confusion among the aspiring young scholars,” Gopal Reddy clarified