Patna University panel clears pay fixation

Patna University (PU) on Thursday paved the way for payment of revised salaries to its teaching and non-teaching staff. The statutory pay fixation committee approved the pay fixation of teachers as well as non-teaching staff in the revised scales of pay.
While the pay scales of university teachers have been revised by the UGC with effect from January 2006, those of non-teaching staff have been revised by the state government in the light of the Sixth Pay Commission report. While implementing the revised pay scales, the state government had categorically stated that payment in the revised scale would commence from September 2010, and that the arrears would be paid in five installments beginning from 2011-12. 
A member of the PU pay fixation committee said the revised pay of individual teachers and non-teaching staff would be notified soon. But the actual payment would start only when it gets the nod of the state HRD department and funds are released by the government for the purpose. The budget of the university for the next financial year (2011-12) would incorporate the revised pay of different categories of university staff. 

PUTA general secretary Randhir Kr Singh welcomed the pay fixation of teachers in the revised scale and urged the state government to release necessary funds to the university at the earliest so that the payment of revised pay may be started soon.
Source : Times of India