The government has agreed to hike the starting salary of assistant professors by almost 25 per cent from that stipulated in a new pay regime it had notified earlier this month, top officials revealed.
The decision was firmed up today, on the eve of a meeting between human resource development minister Kapil Sibal and IIT directors to resolve the crisis.
Faculty at the IITs and the IIMs are protesting revised pay scales that snip salaries recommended by a central pay panel under former Indian Institute of Science director Goverdhan Mehta.
The pay regime notified earlier this month also ignores a slew of additional incentives suggested by the Mehta panel to counter the lure of better salaries offered by industry and foreign universities.
Poor salaries for assistant professors, the institutes argued, were at the root of the dispute.
Under the pay scales notified earlier this month, assistant professors were placed at a starting monthly salary of Rs 30,000, in a range referred to as pay band 3.
The HRD ministry has decided that salaries for assistant professors will now start at Rs 37,400 a month, in a higher pay range — called pay band 4.
The academic grade pay — a rank-based increment — for assistant professors will remain at Rs 8,000 a month, as notified earlier this month.
The ministry has not yet accepted demands from the IITs for additional incentives — financial compensation for the years spent in study and research instead of working, or a performance-related incentive scheme.
The salaries notified earlier this month — and first reported by The Telegraph on August 19 — represented the first hike in pay scales for the IIT and IIM faculties since 1999.
On learning about the notification, faculties across the IITs and IIMs protested against the new pay regime, wearing black bands. Teachers at different IITs took turns at boycotting classes.
The IITs last week submitted a memorandum of demands to the HRD ministry, threatening a mass hunger strike on September 5 — Teacher’s Day — if their demands were not accepted.
The IIMs have also formulated a similar charter of demands, though they have not specified any protest action they are planning.
Under current pay scales for teachers at India’s universities, assistant professor salaries automatically proceed from pay band 3 to pay band 4 after three years in service. The pay scales for IIT and IIM faculties notified this month did not include any similar provision for shifting the salaries of assistant professors to pay band 4 after three years.
Teachers at the IITs and the IIMs have traditionally been paid higher than their counterparts at universities because of the higher demand they command in the corporate market.
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Hello Mrs. sspplm,
Read the following part which I took from this news. Current pay scale means 5th Pay and Asst. Prof.
means Reader in University in 5th pay scale. Again, you will see the equivalence of Asst. Prof. In IIT/IIM is equivalent to Associate Prof. in University.
Add this valuable information in your Ph.D. Thesis.
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Under current pay scales for teachers at India’s universities, assistant professor salaries automatically proceed from pay band 3 to pay band 4 after three years in service. The pay scales for IIT and IIM faculties notified this month did not include any similar provision for shifting the salaries of assistant professors to pay band 4 after three years
very good
pkp
Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today met the IIT directors for an-hour-and-a-half to discuss around 13 important issues, including that of pay scale.
While the IIT directors were reluctant to comment on the proceedings of the meeting, a senior ministry official said: “With all the IIT directors present at the meeting, the issue related to pay hikes for the faculty appears resolved. The ministry made a presentation to the IIT directors on how the IIT salaries are better than the UGC ones and the directors were convinced.”
Sibal assured them that their grievances would be considered positively. Though there were some minor concerns, the minister said these would be considered after obtaining appropriate orders, the official added.
An IIT director Business Standard spoke to said on condition of anonymity: “I am satisfied with the discussions that took place and hope that the IIT system too agrees to the same.”
However, when contacted, a member from the All India IIT Faculty Federation said if their demands were not met, they would approach the HRD ministry on September 6. The federation has given the ministry a deadline till September 4 to come up with a solution on this matter. Another IIT director confirmed that faculty members from his institute planned to meet the MHRD. The IIT faculties have been demanding that assistant professors should be placed in higher pay band besides performance-related “scholastic pay” and compensation to aspiring faculties for the time they spend in research before taking up teaching as a profession.
Faculty of some IITs had staged strike recently in protest against the new pay regime passed by the Union Cabinet last month based on the recommendations of the Goverdhan Mehta Committee report.
All IIT colleagues, please dont waste your time in rumours spreading through The Telegraph.
Dear Siva,
Regarding your first blog, I doubt your interpretation of current pay scale as 5th pay scale and assistant professor as reader. The UGC/MHRD pay scale had already been accepted several months earlier in universities. Therefore, current pay scale in true sense should be interpreted as 6th pay commission. In this context, the news published in The Telegraph is erroneous.
Thanks
SIVA do not waste time with sspplm. he or she has very different way of interpretation and he or she dare to say, The Telegraph is erroneous!
Siva can you help us, by interpreting NIT pay scales. write something about NIT pay scales interpretation.
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.
SIMILSRLY 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.
Dear Kapil Sibal Ji,
WILL You walk a mile only for IITs ... ??????
WHY CANT YOU WALK A FEW STEPS----- ONLY A FEW STEPS.... FOR NITs.... .... IN PARTICULAR YOUNG FACULTY MEMBERS..... ARE WE NOT YOUR KIDS.....
NIT faculty members were made to wait for almost an year more than UGC. Finally MHRD discovered that we are same like UGC and has given the same UGC scales.....
Various NITs made a number of memorandums.(In a dignified manner as reported by IIM)
But, not even a single time their concerns were heard, in the TWO modifications MHRD has given dated 16th and 22nd.
The pay commission was framed to attract young faculty members with PhD and to retain existing faculty.
As far as NITs are converned MHRD has done everything possible to retain existing senior faculty members.
For young faculty members, MHRD said seven non compoundable advance increment will be given for a person with PhD.
Unfortunately, we don,t know, whether our English is bad or MHRDs, the existing faculty members with PhDs are given a mere TWO increments only. The argument is that a person who is going to be recruited after this GO and who joins with a PhD only will be given 7 increments. Even if a person submits his thesis and gets his PhD the next day of joining NIT, he will be eligible for only TWO increments.
Young faculty members with PhD represented MHRD through various memorandums to keep them at 7000 AGP AT LEAST.
BUT NOTHING HAPPENED FOR THIS DIGNIFIED(AS REPORTED BY IIM)PETITIONS TILL DATE. INSTEAD WE ARE PUNISHED STILL MORE BY GIVING JUST TWO INCREMENTS.
OKAY, If we think that We will leave this institution and join another as a fresher to get atleast the SEVEN increments promised for a fresher, UGC has recently come up with another regulation saying, Discretionary award of advance increments can be given only to Asso Profs and Professors and not to a person joining fresh AS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR(6.4.19 IN REGULATION 2009).
WHY..... What wrong thing we made....Spending 5 to 10 years in various industries and institutions before joining NIT is a fault...OR Did a bit of research to get a PhD in service is a fault... WHAT WRONG THING WE MADE....
SO, U WONT GIVE US PROPER SALARY... U wont allow us to join ANOTHER INSTITUTION also peacefully....(B,COS WE WILL LOSE OUR SERVICE AND WE MAY NOT GET ADVANCE INCREMENTS OTHER THAN FOR PHD......) So, MHRD should tell us what service we should do in our existing institutes...
THOSE WHO JOINED NIT AFTER SUBMITTING THEIR THESIS AND GOT THEIR PhD IN SERVICE IN A MONTH OR TWO AFTER JOINING NIT DONT KNOW
WHETHER WE ARE A FRESH FACULTY
OR
AN EXISTING FACULTY......
WE ARE NOT PROVIDED EITHER THE BENEFITS SHOWN TO EXISTING FACULTY(SENIORS)
NOR
THE BENEFITS GIVEN TO FRESH FACULTY.....
AND WE CANT LEAVE FOR ANOTHER INSTITUTION ALSO(for the reason mentioned above)
ONLY GOD CAN SAVE US ...........
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