7th Pay Commission and UGC Pay Review Committee

Sirsi, Mar 15 (UNI) The University Grants Commission (UGC) has agreed to consider the long-pending demands of All India Federation of University and College Teachers' Organisation (AIFUCTO). Karnataka University College Teachers' Association President Prof Lingaraj R Angadi, also AIFUCTO Executive Committee Member, told reporters here today that an assurance to this effect was given by UGC Chairman Sukhadeo S Thorat and Union Human Resources Development Ministry Secretary Sudeep Banarjee when a AIFUCTO delegation, led by its President Thomas Joseph, met them in New Delhi recently. He said the AIFUCTO members had also staged a dharna in front of the UGC at New Delhi recently, urging the Union Government to fulfil their demands. They were demanding, among other things, abrogation of privatisation and commercialisation of education from primary to university, concrete government order on constituting the Sixth Pay Commission and UGC Pay Review Committee, deletion of neg...

Top academicians of the country can hope for top salaries too. The faculty members of IITs and IIMs may see a salary rise as high as 200%, to bring them at par with global pay levels. Not just that, the pay scales will be relaxed and a contract system introduced for offering flexible pay packs to ensure that the best brains are not lost to the private companies.Despite the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations not having a direct bearing on their salaries, the recommendations made by a separate committee formed by the Union ministry of HRD—to be possibly submitted within six months—will have enough clues to take from the Commission recommendations to help country’s top institutes compensate their faculty members in the best terms possible. The exercise is to ensure that the faculty is encouraged, salarywise, to put in their best in shaping up the country’s top talent.“The recommendations will be based on what has been laid down in the Sixth Pay Commission, as has been the norm. And if t...

New Delhi, Aug 16, 2008: With Union Cabinet’s approval, 6th Pay Commission becomes a reality. But people are finding it difficult to get news about pay bands, gratuity, its effects on Golden Hand Shake or VRS schemes and host of other issues. http://www.khabrein.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15969&Itemid=88