UGC pushes for college teachers’ pay hike

To bring teachers pay scales on a par with bureaucrats, the UGC has recommended higher pay scale for three grades of college teachers than what was recommended by the Chadda Committee, reports Chetan Chauhan.

Updated on: Oct 15, 2008, 01:16:43 IST

Hindustan Times | By Chetan Chauhan, New Delhi

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To bring teachers pay scales on a par with bureaucrats, the UGC has recommended higher pay scale for three grades of college teachers than what was recommended by the Chadda Committee. The panel had submitted its report on new pay structure for teachers to UGC a fortnight ago.

The higher scale recommended are for lecturers in senior scale and selection scale and readers in selection grade. “These grades will bring teachers at par with bureaucrats,” a UGC official said. Increase in pay structure was done by UGC following a representation of Federation of Central Universities Teacher’s Association.

In a report submitted to the HRD Ministry this week, the UGC has agreed with the committe’s recommendations that the Centre should foot the entire bill of the increase in pay scales of teachers of state universities for the first five years. Thereafter, for another five years it should bear 50 per cent of expenses of the state universities, the UGC has recommended.

Till now, the Centre used to pay for 80 per cent of the extra burden. But, even after that many states failed to implement UGC pay scales for university and college teachers.

“To prevent any such a situation we have recommended that the Centre should pay the entire cost of implementing the new pay scales,” a UGC official said. But, the ministry, which would discuss the new pay structure may face a problem of getting a clearance from the Finance Ministry to foot the bill.

The government may not be willing to bear the entire cost as it would lead to huge burden on the Central exchequer and will absolve the state from its responsibility to share the higher salary of its employees, a government official told HT.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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