Faculty at the IITs, IIMs and other technical education institutions will receive salary hikes accompanied by a bouquet of perks and research incentives under a pre-election package to be unveiled by the government.
Besides, teachers in hundreds of university engineering colleges and in the National Institutes of Technology will for the first time receive higher pay than provided by the University Grants Commission, The Telegraph has learnt.
Faculty in the IITs and the IIMs already receive salaries higher than UGC scales — their pay will now rise further.
A central technical education pay review panel headed by former Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, director Goverdhan Mehta has recommended that salaries for all technical education teachers be raised higher than that of university teachers.
The panel submitted its report to higher education secretary R.P. Agrawal on Friday, sources said. Mehta confirmed that he had submitted the report to the human resource development ministry, but did not divulge details.
But government sources said the report for the first time aimed to correct a “historic” imbalance in the pay structure of faculty in India.
At present, teachers at the NITs and in engineering, management or architecture colleges of universities receive the same salaries as their counterparts in humanities or the pure sciences.
The private sector demand for qualified professionals is, however, significantly higher than the demand for those trained in the humanities and the sciences, officials said.
“We were losing the best brains from these institutions to the private sector. The Goverdhan Mehta committee’s recommendations, which we are likely to accept, will work towards correcting this historic imbalance,” a ministry official said.
The committee in its report, however, has not accepted a demand of teachers at the NITs that their pay be brought on a par with that of IIT faculty. “The NITs and university teachers of technical education will receive a pay a step higher than other university teachers. The IITs and IIMs will receive a take-home salary another step high,” the official said.
An earlier panel had on an average recommended a salary hike of 70 per cent — the Mehta committee’s recommendations, sources indicated, could improve that by around 10 per cent.
Source : The Telegraph., Dated 10th Feb,2009
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Now ball is in the court of MHRD who are maintainig a strange confidentiality for reasons not known to teachers!! What about the administrative and registry officials of these institutions who were drawing the identical scales and were considered to be non-teaching Academic staff. There should not be any injustice to thise people also. They should also be given the same salaries.
Nice to have before election
Mehta Committee has submitted its report on February 7th but so far there is no news about its acceptance. It is taking too long time.
IIT scales are wrapped in a mistry by MHRD. EC may declare the elections at any time but MHRD is sleeping over Mehta Commmittee report. If the scales are not announced before the declaration of dates for next general elections IIT teachers may not get the scales before July/ August '09. Responsibility should be fixed for such inordinate delay on the officials of MHRD which is the worst ministry of the Govt. of India as far as competence is concerned. I think MHRD officials have already got 6th PC arrears so they are not bothered about others.
I agree with Mr. Prem's comment posted earlier that the administrative and registry officials drawing similar scales be also given a proportionate package as their teaching counterparts.Especially in light of the fact that they are as important stakeholders in the maintenance of Quality in Institutions of Higher Educations like IIT'S,IIIT'S, NIT's and the likes. It is high time to continue thinking that teachers alone are the pillars for imparting High Quality tag to these institutions. Also , is it not a paradox, that all Institutions including IITs, IIITs, NITs, etc cry of very less faculty, but statistics show that they continue to rise on the Quality charts. If it is not due to the contribution of trained & qualified administrative and registry officials, then who else is working.
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