A 40 per cent cap on the number of IIT and IIM professors eligible for the experience-based salary raise is likely to be lifted in a revised pay notification, government officials confirmed.
IIT and IIM professors start with a salary of Rs 48,000 a month with a post-based increment — known as the academic grade pay (AGP) — of Rs 10,500 a month under the notified pay regime.
But the notified regime has a provision of a higher AGP, of Rs 12,000 a month, for professors who have held the post for over six years.
The notified pay structure, however, clarifies that only 40 per cent of professors at an institute can receive the higher AGP at any point in time.
The cap, IIT and IIM faculty have argued, may stall the growth of relatively younger professors, as seniors in the faculty would fill the higher salary posts till they retire.
The 40-per cent limit could also lead to nepotism and politics involving institute administrators in picking beneficiaries of the higher salary, the faculty have argued.
But Sibal’s consent to lifting the cap at the IITs and the IIMs could fuel similar demands from central universities and the National Institutes of Technology (NITs).
Central universities have a 10 per cent cap on professors eligible for a higher AGP while the NITs have a 20 per cent restriction. “The arguments that the IIT faculty have used are equally valid for universities and NITs too,” an HRD ministry official said.
Representatives of the Professors Forum of India — the country’s largest apolitical block of central university teachers — today met Sibal demanding that the 10 per cent cap be lifted.
The ministry has already agreed to the single biggest demand of the IIT and IIM faculty. The pay regime at the centre of the controversy places assistant professors in a salary range known as “pay band three”, with a starting salary of Rs 30,000 a month and a post-based increment of Rs 8,000 a month.
Unlike pay scales for central universities, however, there is no provision in this regime for upgrading assistant professors to a higher pay range starting at Rs 37,400 a month after three years of teaching.
IIT and IIM faculty have argued that their job requirements mandate that only those with three years’ teaching experience can apply for the post of assistant professor — and demanded higher starting salaries. The demand has been accepted.
5% DA for Central Govt Staff
The cabinet is most likely to announce 5% DA for Central staff w.e.f. 01.07.2009. It may be recalled that this was informed in this blog on 1st July itself.
Source : The Telegraph and our own source.
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Release of additional instalment of dearness allowance to Central Government employees and dearness relief to Pensioners, due from 1.7.2009
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The Cabinet has decided to release an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to Central government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to pensioners w.e.f. 1.7.2009 representing an increase of 5% over the existing rate of 22% of the Basic Pay/Pension, to compensate for price rise. The increase is in accordance with the accepted formula, which is based on the recommendations of the 6th Central Pay Commission. The combined impact on the exchequer on account of both dearness allowance and dearness relief would be of the order of Rs.4355.35 crore in a full year and Rs.2903.55 crore in the financial year 2009-2010 (for a period of 8 months from July, 2009 to February, 2010).
What is the position of PENSION for the NEW Assistant.professors of IIM and IIT? Can anyone help me with Government notification on this?
WHAT IIT DIRECTORS COULD SECURE FROM MHRD IS A BETTER PAY FOR NEW ENTRANTS THAT IS TO SAY THAT TO 'ALLURE' THE TELENTED PEOPLE TO JOIN TEACHING IN IIT, BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE ALREADY SERVING FACULTY? DO THEY ALSO NEED TO BE 'RETAINED' OR NOT ? IN THE ABSENCE OF PROPER 'BUNCHING' THE SALARIES OF ALL - OLD(SENIOR) AND NEW HAVE COME TO THE SAME LEVEL. IN ORDER TO REFLECT THE NUMBER OF SERVICE OR SENIORITY OF ALREADY SERVING TEACHERS OVER THAT OF A NEW ENTRANT THE BUNCHING FOR SENIOR PEOPLE'S SALARY SHOULD START FROM THE MINIMUM SALARY OFFERED TO THE NEW ENTARANT i.e. FOR EXISTING APs ONE INCREMENT FOR TWO INCREMENTS IN OLD PAY STARTING ABOVE Rs 37400 BEING GIVEN TO NEW ENTRANTS. SO THE SALARY OF AN ASST PROFESSOR GETTING 12750 IN OLD SCALE SHOULD GET ONE INCREMENT ABOVE Rs 37400 = 38530 AND SO ON.
SIMILARLY FOR ASSOCIATE PROF CONSIDERING THE NEW BASIC PAY OF 42800 FOR OLD PAY 16400 ONE INCREMENT IN NEW SCALE FOR TWO IN OLD SCALE SHOULD BE GIVEN FOR EXAMPLE A BASIC OLD SCALE SALARY OF 17300 ONE INCREMENT NEW INCREMENT SHOULD BE ADDED TO THE MINIMUM SALARY OF 42800 TO MAKE IT Rs 43390 AND FURTHER ON FOR OLD TWO INCREMENTS ONE INCREMENT IN NEW SCALE. sIMILARLY FOR PROFESSORS ALSO THE BUNCHING SHOULD BE DONE STARTING FROM 48000 FOR EACH TWO OLD INCREMENT ONE INCREMENT IN NEW SALARY. THIS WOULD REMOVE THE ANAMOLY WHICH HAS ARISEN AMONG THE SENIOR AND JUNIOR TEACHERS SALARY.
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