7th Pay Commission and UGC Pay Review Committee

HYDERABAD: Members of the AP Federation of College Teachers’ Associations (FCTA) on Wednesday observed ‘protest day’ expressing resentment against ‘inordinate’ delay in submission of the Sixth UGC Pay Review Committee report to the Centre. S. Laxminayarana, chairman, said in a statement that the day marked the beginning of the agitation by university/college teachers. He stated that members of the federation would be forced to resort to more drastic action, including a nation-wide strike, if the committee failed to submit its report before October 5. Members of the AP Affiliated College Teachers’ Association also observed protested day in response to a call by the All-India Federation of University and College Teachers’ Organisations. G. Mallikarjun Rao, general secretary, said in a statement that 4,500 colleges across the State had protested.

Panaji, Sep 24: In response to the call given by All India Federation of University and College Teachers’ Organizations (AIFUCTO), the University College Teachers’ Association Goa (UCTAG) is going to observe Wednesday September 24 as ‘protest day’. This is to protest the failure of the sixth UGC Pay Review Committee (PRC) or Prof Chadda Committee, to submit its recommendations to the central government on time. AIFUCTO president Prof Thomas Joseph and general secretary Prof Ashok Barman, clarified that the Chadda Committee was required to submit its report by September 6. The leadership of AIFUCTO has repeatedly voiced the sentiments of teachers that the PRC should submit its report within the prescribed time limit. The failure of the committee to submit its report even after implementation of the sixth Pay Review Committee recommendations for central government employees is a matter that deserves serious national concern. The XIth Plan perspective clearly states that inclusive devel...

The University Grants Commission constituted Committee to review the pay scales and other issues of service and working conditions of university and college teachers in the country has assured to provide the teachers a very decent deal. Prof G K Chadha, Chairman UGC Pay Review Committee said that it was deliberating on issues connected with higher education in a socio-economic and cultural milieu qualitatively so much different from what it was a decade ago, particularly in view of the demands of new global challenges in the higher education sector especially at the level of college education. He asserted that the committee would provide the best for the teaching profession vis--vis corporate sector and civil services. He assured that the committee would provide recommendation which would encourage the best talent to join teaching profession, provide them incentives and pay scales parity with civil services and also remove anamolies of the last pay commission. The committee is fully co...

A University Grants Commission pay panel has promised that the average raise for university teachers will be higher than what corresponding government officials are to receive under the Sixth Pay Commission. The committee, headed by former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) vice-chancellor G.K. Chadha, is also set to recommend a uniform retirement age. The age is 65 in central universities but, as Chadha pointed out, it varies from 55 to 70 in educational institutions under states. “We will ask all states to invoke a uniform policy on the age of retirement and re-employment of teachers. The uniformity is essential to rid India’s higher education sector of inter-regional disparities,” Chadha said today. The committee has been criticised by teachers’ bodies for failing to submit its report by the September 6 deadline. The panel was set up along with the Sixth Pay Commission and both reports were to be implemented together. The Centre finalised the findings of the pay commission and notifi...

Let me welcome you all this afternoon to this press conference on behalf of the Pay Review Committee that, as you are well aware, has been constituted by the University Grants Commission to review the pay scales and other issues of service and working conditions of university and college teachers in the country. I wish to share with you and through you with my lakhs of university and college teacher colleagues spread in various parts of the country—some really remote and far flung— the progress of the functioning of the Pay Review Committee, particularly the range of issues on which the Committee has been dilating with a view to giving the teachers a very ‘decent deal’. As you are aware, the Pay Review Committee was appointed in the larger context of the VI Central Pay Commission appointed by the Government of India for recommending the revised scales of pay for central government employees. Now that the recommendations of the VI Central Pay Commission have finally been accepted and no...

New Delhi, Sept. 7, 2008: To most of the university teachers the question haunting them is that when they will get pay hike on the lines of 6th Pay Commission recommendations. Though central government employees are set to get their hiked salary from this month the university teachers may well have to wait a bit longer. University teachers were hoping that they too would get similar hikes as recommended by the sixth pay commission. Around 5.5 million central government employees have got around 25 percent pay hikes besides hefty increment in allowance and other facilities.Several state governments including Uttar Hradesh, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Uttrakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh have announced to form committees to implement the sixth commission recommendations in their respective state.The UGC Pay panel review committee headed by GK Chadha has said that the committee has not completed its study. The message was recently conveyed to the HRD minister Arjun Singh who grudgingly app...

NEW DELHI: In the light of the announcement of revised pay scales for Central Government employees, the Federation of Central Universities’ Teachers’ Associations has demanded that the University Grants Commission’s Pay Review Committee submit its report at the earliest. “When UGC Chairman S.K. Thorat met us recently, he assured us that the committee would submit its report within 15 days of the decision on the Central Pay Commission report. We are concerned over certain reports that the committee may take another three to six months to submit its report,” said Federation president Aditya Narayan Misra on Wednesday. The teachers federation has threatened that if the report is not submitted immediately it will observe a dharna and hunger strike outside the University Grants Commission office on Friday. http://www.hindu.com/2008/08/28/stories/2008082854400400.htm

New Delhi, Sep 4 (IANS) Teachers from 18 central universities have called off their strike Sep 5, keeping in mind that a number of teachers would be involved in the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) polls Friday, official sources said. The Federation of Central Universities Teachers’ Association (FEDCUTA), which has long been protesting the University Grants Commission (UGC) pay review committee’s demand for more time to submit its report, had planned to go on strike Sep 5. “However, as we realized that many teachers of Delhi University (DU) who are a part of FEDCUTA will be busy on Friday with the DUSU polls, we decided to call off the strike,” Kamal Mitra Chenoy, professor in Jawaharlal Nehru University’s (JNU) School of International Studies, told IANS. The association is now planning to organise a mass protest rally Sep 17. The pay review committee was set up Sep 7 last year, with G.K. Chadha, former vice-chancellor of JNU, as its head. It was to submit its report Sep 6 this y...