The dispute relates to the appointment of teachers in theDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences which was a constituentteaching department at one stage under the self-financing schemeof HNB Garhwal University. At the ... time of appointment of theappellants, University was a State University governed by the Act1973 established under Section 4(1) of the Act. On 15th January,2009, the University was converted into a Central University andis governed by Central Universities Act, 2009(hereinafter beingreferred to as the “Act 2009”).