Gujarat Teachers to send letters signed with blood to Modi, Jammu and Kashmir makes Panel to examine pay anomalies. 5% D.A. for Central PSUs

Letters signed with blood will soon flood chief minister Narendra Modi's office. This is the next phase of college teachers' agitation
against the state government's decision to implement its own pay scale instead of the one recommended by University Grants Commission (UGC).

"On Tuesday, teachers from colleges and universities across the state will gather at their respective institutes to write letters and sign those in blood," said KS Shastri, president of Gujarat teachers' federation.

"The letters which will be addressed to the chief minister will in one paragraph drive home the point - implement the pay scale of UGC with immediate effect," said Shastri.

The next phase of the agitation will be burning of the government resolution (GR). The GR was issued recently by the state government to block UGC's pay scale and introduce state government's pay structure that is significantly lesser than the one recommended.

On Monday the three-day seminar of All India Federation of University and College Teachers' Organisation (AIFUCTO) concluded. The participants college teachers from across the country decided that the agitation in Gujarat will spread to other parts of the country.

"College teachers across the country will take up cudgels on behalf of the teachers in Gujarat. In other states too, ill-treatment being meted out to professors, readers and lecturers of colleges and universities in Gujarat will be protested," said members of AIFUCTO.

The theme of the seminar was focused on higher education in India and the challenges it faces. Participants presented 50 research papers on this topic.

Source : Times of India.

Jammu and Kashmir Pay Update.

Jammu and Kashmir government has constituted a committee to go into the pay anomalies resulting from the implementation of the 6th Pay Commission report. The committee with the Finance secretary as its convener will have the secretaries of General Administration Department, the Law Department and the ARI/ Trainings Department, and representatives of the chief minister’s secretariat not below the rank of special secretary as members and the director Codes (Finance Department) as its member/secretary.
The terms of reference of the committee would be to examine various anomalies in the existing pay structure as may come to its notice and suggest measures to remove these; to examine the issues of “legitimate” pay anomalies resulting from implementation of the sixth Pay Revision and to examine any connected or incidental matter. The committee would be serviced by the Finance Department, an official handout issued today said.

Source : Greater Kashmir

Dearness Allowance for PSU [14.10.09]

Employees of select central public sector enterprise will get more D.A with effect from 1st July 2009. It will go up by 5 percentage points in enterprises that follow the central dearness allowance pattern.

Source : The Telegraph.14.10.09.