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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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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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UGC REPORT 2008 IS DEVIOUS AND DOWNGRADING TO READERS
Dear Sir/Madam,
Once a while please take a look at how Chaddha has handled teachers in University and College. The UGC Commission in the past has appointed Mahrortra Committee for 1986, Rastogi Committee 1996 and now Chadha Committee for 2006. I would want you to closely look at the three rungs of academic ladder of Universities and Colleges across this great country India.
TABLE 1
Mehrotra Committee
1988 Ratio Rastogi Committee
1998 Ratio Chadha Committee
2008 ratio
2200 1 8000 1 22200 1
3700 1.7 12000 1.5 23600 1.06
4500 2.04 16400 2.05 46100 2.07
The overall increase from 1986 scales to 1998 and 2008:
TABLE 2
1988 – 1998 increase by 1998 – 2008 increase by
Lecturer 3.63 2.75
Reader 3.24 1.96
Professor 3.64 2.81
Chadha Committee has recommended the pay bands for all the three sectors like Lecturer, Reader and Professor since 01.01.2006.
Lecturer & Reader = 15600-39100 PB 3
Professor = 37400-67000 PB 4
Take a situation where, a Lecturer (Asst. Professor), a Reader (Associate Professor) and a Professor are recruited in a College on 01.01.2009. Their pay fixation (?) would be as below:
Lecturer (Asst. Professor) – PB3 15600+6600 = 22200
Reader - (Associate Professor) PB3 15600+8000 = 23600
Professor - PB4 37400+8700 = 46100
Now take look into Table 1 for the ratio among these three sectors in successive committees formed by UGC and the minimum salary at entry point. The Ratio of Lecturer if considered 1 then the ratio of Reader in 1988 report was 1.7, in 1998 report was 1.5 and in 2008 report is 1.06. There is evident decrease in the ratio for Lecturer Selection Grade and Reader over the last three reports. If this is not bias then what is?
The Table 2 very clearly shows that Professors have always enjoyed a definite edge over all other teacher grades, specially this time with a whopping 2.81 times more than what they received at the entry point in the last report. Why? Because the Chairman of the Committee is a PROFESSOR and a VICE CHANCELLOR himself.
And it very clearly indicates from the decision for fitment & fixation formula to be exactly like VI CPC and the god forbidden pay bands PB 3 for the Lecturers and Readers, that they (committee members) were not interested in applying their brains as was at least done by earlier committees in 1988 and 1998 reports.
The people who decide things at the helm of affairs must know that each College in itself is like a University and how difficult it is for the teachers of College to pursue research when managements be it private or Government snub them. The teacher in College has to handle 18 periods per week irrespective whether Lecturer errr….., Assistant Professor or Associate Professor/Assistant Professor (Sel.Grade), upon other duties handed over by the Principal. In such a scenario expecting the teachers to undertake research work is highly burdensome. Therefore, there should be straight-away promotional benefits for him like after completion of 5/6 years to Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) and after another 5 years as Associate Professor. The Government and UGC should do away with DPCs Selection Committees and mandatory research articles, writing books and / or participation in workshops and seminars symposia etc which will become grounds for corruption among teachers. Already, there are umpteen numbers of cases where many a teachers have paid (undertaking) for attending the refresher courses which was made mandatory for promotion and placement. The very fact that UGC from time to time has relaxed this condition by extending the time limit within which the refresher courses to be completed shows how impossible it is for all to attend the refresher courses / orientation courses. What can not be achieved as easily as possible then why keep it as a mandatory condition? However, stipulating a logical number of refresher courses in the entire career would be another option UGC and MHRD can think about. Therefore in these conditions, it is wiser to give time-bound promotions to a teacher so that he is academically active in both mental and physical sectors.
The cardinal organization of teachers’ welfare like AIFUCTO, FEDUCTA, DUTA etc, should dig this into as strongly as possible and stage protests for the very contents of their Associations lest people start losing faith in them.
The other recommendations of incentives are carrots and do not form substantively attractive factors. Ministry of HRD and the Minister also needs to look into these and apply corrective measures and save the teachers from deviating to court and litigation instead of concentrating at teaching a profession so noble needs more efforts than any other profession and in highly incomparable. Let us make teaching at College hassle free, politics free and worry free about career benefits so that THE TEACHER can concentrate on ‘teaching’ ONLY.
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