UGC PANEL RECOMMENDS OVER 70% PAY HIKE FOR UNIVERSITY TEACHE

Assistant professors and associate professors are kept in the same pay band. There should be a new pay band for associate professors in between professors and assistant professors.

Chadha committee has done terrible injustice to very senior teachers with 35 - 36 years of service & 15-18 years in the Grade of Readers. They have been equated  / placed in the same street with new Asst. Professors.    How mindless on the part of the Committee to ignore the fact that  in 1998 MHRD under Murli Joshi abolished Professor posts from Colleges. Consequently , Lecturers  became Readers after 15-16 years and stagnated inthat grade for 15-18 years. Is there any other service in this country  where one stagnates for 18 years in the same grade? Look at the injustice that Chadha has done to this class. They (Readers who stagnated at Rs. 18300/-  18 with 18 years in the Reader grade will get what a new Asst. Professor or lecturer will get and less than  half the pay of  young University professors. Chadha committee  has done a death blow to the already  demoralised senior Readers/ Lecturers -selection grade.My  request to  media  is  not to  skate  on the surface  , and kindly highlight the  terrible  injustice done  to  the middle , senior ranks of academics with 35-36 years of service.
 

Professor A. Vaishampayan, UGC Career Awardee :

          Professor Chaddha and his associates need to be heartily thanked for creating the post of Senior Professor in a university for those who have spent 10 years as a Professor. I request, however, that with this legitimate honour a small incentive of few extra increments may also please be granted by the UGC, MHRD and Cabinet, if missed to have got a mention by Prof. Chaddha, and this should be extended to all those who have completed 10 years consistently as a Professor and nothing is known against their character and academic conduct, since Professors who are selected or promoted following UGC norms are already crossed through a rigorous screening of their outstanding record of eminence.  This will be the minimum courtesy from the MHRD to honour this highest qualified position under the Govt. of India who builds up and shapes the able human resources with ultimate conclusive advice through this noble profession to carefully and graciously command different spheres of the whole nation.

It has the following characteristics 1. Plethora of anomalies. 2. Did not understand the concept of Grade Pay and Pay Bands given in Sixth Central Pay Commission. 3. Putting School Principal higher than the Sr. Lecturer could turn out to be cancerous for higher education.( In 4th pay commission he was lower and in 5th he became at par with Sr. Lecturer) Next time he may cross the readers, courtesy Prof Chadha. 4. Biased Approach. 5. Contradictions throughout the report. For this report he wanted an extension of 3 months. How justifiable he was, just imagine. This report is a matter of a day or two and leads to a wastage of tax money of the public, which he enjoyed for 13 months. Finally I say that this report is a Garbage and should be thrown into the dustbin.

 Just Professor Senior Scale on completion of 10 yrs as professor, the Principal with 10 yr of service may be considered for Senior Scale Principal.

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	What the Authorities are thinking reg. implementation of the age of ret. as 65 yrs. WEF 01/01/2006? What would be the fate of the college teachers who have already retired on or after 01/01/2006 on attaining  60 yrs. of age?   Professor A. Vaishampayan, UGC Career Awardee :           Professor Chaddha and his associates need to be heartily thanked for creating the post of Senior Professor in a university for those who have spent 10 years as a Professor. I request, however, that with this legitimate honour a small incentive of few extra increments may also please be granted by the UGC, MHRD and Cabinet, if missed to have got a mention by Prof. Chaddha, and this should be extended to all those who have completed 10 years consistently as a Professor and nothing is known against their character and academic conduct, since Professors who are selected or promoted following UGC norms are already crossed through a rigorous screening of their outstanding record of eminence.  This will be the minimum courtesy from the MHRD to honour this highest qualified position under the Govt. of India who builds up and shapes the able human resources with ultimate conclusive advice through this noble profession to carefully and graciously command different spheres of the whole nation.           I further feel indebted to the PRC for the redressal of previous PRC anomalies and granting CAS promotions from the date of eligibility with arrears from 01.01.1996. This has been a long due justice to the sufferers, as their redressed salary arriving at on 01.01.2006 will now be considered for fixation under the new UGC pay scale under the Sixth Pay guidelines. Explicit orders to this effect may please be issued in order to avoid any confusion/inadvertent discrepancy in this context at the local level.               Further, I do agree with Professor Chaddha that teachers’ periodical appraisal and emphasis on the maintenance of discipline, morality and sense of integrity should be the part and parcel of the new pay package.                Thanks for a historically remarkable recommendation by true academicians for true academicians.	"

 

To

 

Sh. Arjun Singh,

Minister for Human Resources Development

Government of India,

New Delhi.

 

Reference: MHRD Notification on pay scales of University and college teachers. 

  

Subject: Readers/Lecturer (Selection Grade) in service at Present- UGC draft notification not in concurrence with MHRD notification.

 

Sir,

It is humbly submitted before you the agony of the teachers working as Readers/Lecturers (Selection Grade) in service at Present (i.e. on 31-12-2008 the date of MHRD Notification) as follows:

1. In the MHRD Notification regarding the scheme of pay of teachers and equivalent cadres in universities and colleges, No. 1-32/2006-U.II/U.I (i) dated 31-12-2008,  page 3 Clause  2 (a) xi it is said that Readers/Lecturers (Selection Grade) in service at present shall continue to be designated as Lecturer (Selection Grade) or Readers, as the case may be, until they are placed in the pay Band of Rs.37400-67000 and re-designated as Associate Professor in the manner described in sub clause ( x ) i.e. for incumbent readers and Lecturer (Selection Grade) who have not completed 3 years in the pay scale of Rs. 12000-18300.
2. In the above notification no condition is imposed by the MHRD on the Readers/Lecturer (Selection Grade) who even acquire the grade of 12000-18300 after 01-01-2006 and suggest the same formula for these Readers/ lecturer (Selection Grade) to become Associate Professor as is applicable for the Readers/Lecturer (Selection Grade) who got the scale of 12000-18300 before 01-01-2006 and who have not completed 3 years in the present scale (Page 2 Clause 2 (a) point x and xi)

  But the University Grants commission in negation of the above notification imposed certain conditions on all incumbent Readers/Lecturer (Selection Grade) and Readers/Lecturer (selection Grade) in service at present which relates to  Academic performance indicators (API) and Weight age points (WP) required to develop performance appraisal scoring system (PASS) .

 

4. On the Protest of stake-holders UGC later withdraw the conditions on all the incumbent Readers/Lecturer (Selection Grade) through a clarification on the UGC website. But the point regarding the Readers/Lecturers (Selection Grade) in service at present has not been clarified. It is the demand of the teachers that teachers who have been awarded the designation of Readers/Lecturer (Selection Grade) even after 01-01-2006 and are going to complete three years in service in the pay scale of 12000-18300 in 2008 or 2009 should also be re-designated as Associate professor as and when they complete the required three years of Service and should not be imposed any condition. This is because MHRD Notification Clause 2 (a) (xi) also suggests the same formula as it is for Incumbent Readers/ Lecturer (Selection Grade) who has not completed three years of Service in the pay scale of 12000-18300 on 01-01-2006. The Clause 2 (a) (xi) is reproduced here for quick reference:

" Readers/Lecturer (Selection Grade) in service at present shall continue to be designated as Lecturer (Selection Grade) or Readers, as the case may be,  until they are placed in the pay Band of Rs. 37400-67000 and re-designated as Associate Professor in the manner described in (x) above"

 

The above clause do not put any condition on the Readers/Lecturers (Selection Grade) working presently and suggest the same manner as suggested for the teachers who got the grade of 12000-18300 before the 01-01-2006. 

 

• It is therefore requested to you that kindly clarify this point also and adopt the same formula for promoting the Reader/Lecturer (Selected Grade) in service at present as it is applicable for the incumbent Readers/Lecturer (Selection Grade) who have not completed three years of service in the pay scale of 12000-18300 as given in the clause 2 (a) (x) and as suggested in the Clause 2 (a) (xi) in the page 3 of the MHRD Notification.  

 

 

• If this is not clarified then a teachers who has got the Reader/Lecturer (Selection Grade) say in Feb 2006 will be at disadvantageous position and just for getting the grade two months late he/she has to face lot of hardships and secondly he/she will not have the ample time to cover the conditions put in by the UGC. The conditions put in by the UGC are also not in concurrence of the MHRD notification which is supreme document.
• We also request you to get the exemption from conditions for all Readers/Lecturer (Selection Grade) who has been placed in the grade of 12000-18300 till the date of notification of MHRD i.e. 31-12-2008.

 

I hope you will fight our case and instruct the University Grants Commission not to exceed its mandate so that the true spirit of MHRD Notification should not be defeated.

 

 

 

  

 

(Prof. Ashwani Bhalla)

Executive Vice President

Punjab Commerce and Management Association

 

 

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"	The fact that the UGC Pay report approved by the Government does not incorporate the fitment table is strange and defies all logic. It is still more puzzling how the Teachers Unions have not pointed out this glaring blunder in a report. While the employees of the Central Government could have their first instalment of arrears, the UGC is yet to present a fulfledged report enabling the UGC teachers enjoy the new package, even after a lapse of six months. Even more puzzling is the fact that the MHRD has introduced a strange philosophy of applying an illogical principle of classifying the Readers/Associate Professors into (a) those who have completed 3 years of service and (b) those who have not competed 3 years of service in the cadre as on 01.01.2006. No Pay Commissions have in the past made such a wonderful(!) classification, as adopted above, and thus depriving a just and equitable treatment to this hapless cadre “Readers/Associate Professors” which is the middle position between Lecturer and Professor. It is imperative on the part of the Government to set right this anomaly and do justice to this important cadre among UGC teachers. Indifference in this regard will only complicate the matters resulting in discrimination and injustice meted out to this cadre. Let the UGC, the MHRD and Government act and rectify the blunder committed.Dr CN Swmy, Faculty Membe, ICFAI Law School, ICFAI University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand.	"