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UGC Supported Orientation Programmes and Refresher Courses for Teachers to be Conducted By UGC-Academic Staff Colleges (UGC-ASCs) & UGC-Refresher Cour

The University Grants Commission, in pursuance of the National Policy on Education 1986 and its programme of action, had set up 57 Academic Staff Colleges (ASCs) in different Universities/ Institutions in the country. The Academic Staff Colleges so established are conducting specially designed Academic Staff orientation programmes for newly appointed lecturers and refresher courses for in service teachers. The Orientation programmes is intended to inculcate in the young lecturers the quality of self- reliance through awareness of the social, intellectual and moral environment as well as to discover self-potential and confidence. The orientation programmes contributes to the teacher awareness of the problems of the Indian society and the role of education, higher education leaders and educators in the resolution of these problems to achieve desired goals in national development. The Commission has identified 11 Universities/Institutions on the recommendation of Expert Committee as U

MHRD NOTIFICATION ON PAY REVISION

No.1-32/2006-U.II/U.I(i) Government of India Ministry of Human Resource Development Department of Higher Education New Delhi, dated the 31st December, 2008 To The Secretary, University Grants Commission Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi – 110 002. Subject:- Scheme of revision of pay of teachers and equivalent cadres in universities and colleges following the revision of pay scales of Central Government employees on the recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission. Sir, I am directed to say that the Government of India have decided, after taking into consideration the recommendations made by the University Grants Commission (UGC) based on the decisions taken at the meeting of the Commission held on 7-8 October 2008, to revise the pay scales of teachers in the Central Universities. The revision of pay scales of teachers shall be subject to various provisions of the Scheme of revision of pay scales as contained in this letter, and Regulations to be framed by the UGC in this behalf

From Chadha to MHRD - The slip between the cup & the lip

FROM CHADHA TO MHRD THE SLIP BETWEEN THE CUP & THE LIP Thomas Joseph, President, AIFUCTO t.thomas.joseph@gmail.com The announcement made by Smt.D.Purandeswari, Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development in the Lok Sabha on the 16th of December, regarding Revision of Pay Scales of Teachers in Universities and Colleges, is a far cry from the recommendations of the UGC Pay Review Committee under the Chairmanship of Prof. G.K. Chadha. It is totally at variance with the resolution on the pay revision adopted by the National Executive Council of the All India Federation of University and College Teachers Organizations (AIFUCTO), which was submitted to the Chadha Committee on 15-4-2008. It has also failed to accommodate most of the post-Chadda charter of demands highlighted through the Movement Resolution adopted at the National Conference of AIFUCTO held at Bangalore from 17 to 19th October. In the result, the status and promotional prospects of teachers have been su