Teaching fraternity stands against anomalies in UGC Pay Panel.

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After armed forces it is the turn of the teaching fraternity to stand against anomalies in UGC Pay Panel recommendations.

Teachers who initially seemed very happy with around 70 percent pay hikes as suggested by the University Grants Commission Pay review committee are now up in arms against the panel accusing it to be insensitive towards some segments among the teaching fraternity.

Even the Left leaning teachers’ organizations that had said everything good regarding the recommendations are slowly coming forward to criticize the Chaddha committee recommendations.Dr GK Chaddha a former Jawaharlal Nehru University vice chancellor headed the University Grants Commission Pay panel.Teachers and teachers union, both have their grouses.

University and college readers are annoyed by the fact that they have been bracketed with lecturers. Says a university reader “How can be an associate professor equilised with assistant professor?

A newly recruited assistant professor would get equal salary with that of newly promoted/selected associate Professor. There would be around 75% hike in the salary of Professor as agianst only 30%in case of associate Professor.

The Chadha committee has recommended lower band for associate Professor (Band3) while govt has put Pay scale ending at Rs.18300 in PB 4.

Therefore all Associate Professor should be placed in PB4 without discrimination. The age of retirement should also reduced to 60 years.”Teaching associations say that their major demands have been ignored by the UGC Pay panel that could help attract and retain best of the brains towards academics.

The Delhi University Teachers’ Association has said major demands of teachers for higher pay scale to lecturers so as to attract talent to the university system have not been accepted. “The demand for introduction of Professor’s grade in all colleges to retain talent has not been considered by the committee headed by Prof. G.K. Chadha,” it said.

In the meantime Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) representatives on Monday met UGC chairman, Mr Sukhadeo Thorat, to air their grievances, its president, Mr Aditya Narayan Mishra, said.
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