Sixth pay commission: University teachers to be paid 40 % arrears in November
New Delhi, Oct 28, 2008: If all goes well the university teachers will be paid 40 percent pay arrears in November. It must come as a Divali gift for most of teachers who still don’t seem to have any idea as to when they will start receiving the revised pay scale.
University teachers of all ranks have been anxious as to when the new and revised pay scales will be implemented.
The university teachers went on strike on 22nd October over alleged discrepancies in the UGC pay panel repot or Chaddha
Committee recommendations.
Though the committee has recommended around 75 percent pay hikes for the university teachers there is severe discontent
brewing in the university teachers. The university teachers are ready to undertake a prolonged stir to get the discrepancies
amended.
In the meantime Universities have been directed by the UGC to pay 40 percent arrears to the teachers on ad-hoc basis.
In a communication to registrars of central universities and UGC maintained deemed Universities, UGC joint secretary Renu
Batra requested that this installment of arrears should be paid by Deepavali. “In view of the procedural requirement, it may
take more time to get approval from the union ministry of human resources development for implementing the recommendations of
the sixth pay commission. Therefore, the universities can pay the arrears on an ad-hoc basis,” she said.
“Till the non-plan additional grants are released on account of implementation of the sixth pay commission or due to
immediate non-availability of funds under non-plan, the university may make the payments towards ad-hoc arrears of first
instalments from grants available with the universities from other schemes and the same may be recouped once the additional
non-plan grants are released by the UGC for implementation of the sixth pay commission,” she added.
Source: http://www.khabrein.info
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