Cabinet clears teachers’ pay hike

New Delhi: The proposal for a 70 per cent salary hike for college educators has finally got the Cabinet go-ahead, said sources on Monday. The Cabinet clearance for the recommendations of the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) Pay Review Committee for teachers, led by Professor G K Chadha, will benefit more than five lakh teachers in over 400 universities and more than 6,000 colleges. Incidentally, the clearance came on a day when around 8,000 teachers in Delhi University started an indefinite strike to demand an increase in their pay scales.

In addition to a 70 per cent hike in pay, the UGC panel has recommended additional allowances and new positions to academics in the higher education sector. It has also suggested that the age of retirement be raised to 65 years, extendable up to 70 years. Other perks recommended by the UGC include monetary and non- monetary incentives to ensure teachers do not face stagnation and a ‘revolutionary recruitment policy’ to attract youngsters to teaching.

Women teachers also stand to benefit in a big way, with a recommendation to grant a special two-three year sabbatical to them over and above an extended maternity leave to help them rear their children.

The UGC committee also advocated the introduction of new positions, like senior associate professor, senior professor and professor of eminence.

According to the recommendations, at the entry level, a faculty member will join as an assistant professor, not as a lecturer as earlier. While a lecturer’s pay scale is currently between Rs 8,000 to Rs 13,500, it will now lie between Rs 15,600 to Rs 39,100 for assistant professors, assistant professors (senior scale) and assistant professors (senior grade). Similarly, the committee has recommended a new pay band of Rs 37,400 to Rs 67,000 for professors against the existing scale of Rs 16,400 to Rs 22,400. A vice-chancellor will get a fixed amount of Rs 80,000 per month against the present package of Rs 25,000.

At college level, a principal will be entitled for the package of a professor as against the current package of Rs 12,000 to Rs 22,400, he said.

Apart from the existing allowances, the committee has suggested the introduction of an academic allowance of Rs 1,500 per month, as well as allowances towards house rent, transport, special duty, travel and medical expenses. Teachers with good performance records can get an annual increment of up to four per cent.


Comments

Unknown said…
higher education is in a bad shape today and no effort being made to enthuse a sense of purpose among the teachers researchers and students. entry level corruption and nepotism for academic posts has acquired worst dimensions with rampant manipulation of qualification norms, purchased Ph Ds. no recemendation for improving the quality of teaching faculty by curtailing mass entry of academic rogues in the profession.
UTTAM,lecturer in Geography
I strongly support the view post by shasikant and suggest that central government should constitute commission on the line of UPSC to recruit teacher in central university and colleges where high level of corruption(nepotism and fevouratism) is being practiced.College and universsity should not be given right to appoint teachers all the appoinment should be made by education commission.Further UGC should allow only NET as a requisit and mandatory qualification to become lecturer ,scrap ph.d and mphil degree to become lecturer as these degrees are being sold by education mafias.UTTAM, lecturer in geography
Unknown said…
this is for the information to college teachers residing other than west bengal that all college teachers and even college principals in west bengal are recruited through service commission; so corruption is minimum in this state in the process of recruitment.
what is the fate of college teachers in West Bengal?

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