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Varsity teachers yet to get revised pay scalesMore...

2009-03-25T00:31:00.000-07:00

Varsity teachers yet to get revised pay scales

More than six lakh university and college teachers of the country are yet to get the new salary package though the Human Resource Development(HRD) Ministry notified the salary revision in December last year and announced it in Parliament.

The delay in implementing the new pay scales was due to the fact that the University Grant Commission(UGC) was still awaiting the HRD Ministry's formal nod for fixation of salaries in different pay bands for the university and college teachers as per fitments of the Central Pay Commission, sources said here on Sunday.

They also said the Ministry also sent a note to the UGC informing that the new salary formulae should not be notified without the clearance of the Ministry.

Incidentally, the December 31 notification was issued after Cabinet approval and was declared in the Lok Sabha. And by the end of this month, according to the original notification, the teachers should have got their 40 per cent arrears! But nothing has moved.

Peeved over the delay in implementation of the new pay scales, leaders of several teachers' associations and unions charged that HRD Minister Arjun Singh was not allowing the implementation of the Cabinet-approved notification to settle political scores.

"He is making teachers victims and is not willing to implement pay revision of the teachers,'' said an academician.

Sources told The Pioneer that the UGC top officials, who met the FEDCUTA and AIFUCTO representatives on January 6, 2009 on the pay revision issue, had assured that the fixation formulas would be notified immediately. But as it turned out till date _ more than two-and-a-half months _ have rolled by the UGC has failed to notify the fixation formulas.

They said as the matter stands now after the UGC had submitted the fixation tables to the HRD Ministry it forwarded them again to the Expenditure Department, Ministry of Finance.

This action of the HRD Ministry was ultra-vires as the December 31, 2008 notification had clearly stated that the fixation has to be done as per the Central Pay Commission fixation tables, sources said.

The Expenditure Department went a step further and rejected the pay fixation tables submitted by the HRD Ministry and the files were now shuttling between the two ministries for a long time.

When contacted, IGNOU Teachers' Association president Prof Kapil Kumar accused HRD Minister Arjun Singh of settling his scores with the Congress high command by indulging in these delaying tactics as non-payment of revised salary and arrears as per the fixation tables of the CPC had already created an uproar amongst the teaching community throughout the country.

Professor Kumar said "This is the best way to embarrass the Congress and defame the party amongst the teachers for non-implementation of the pay package given to them before the elections and to score a political point.":

Similar voices have been raised by many others in the teaching community and a senior professor from Delhi University stated that "Arjun Singh has been too busy in fixing his favourites on various positions rather than getting the pay package of the teachers implemented."

Source-http://www.dailypioneer.com/164372/Varsity-teachers-yet-to-get-revised-pay-scales.html

In a country where qualities like corruption and i...

2008-10-31T03:56:00.000-07:00

In a country where qualities like corruption and inefficiency are not only rewarded but expected from civilian offices (read bureaucrats and politicians), the armed forces MUST be reduced in status and monetary standards. Otherwise, their standards of efficiency and attitude of "getting the job done" may slowly become the norm. That must be a scary thought for those who are in charge of formulating pay and status policy.

BLOGGER - ANY -ONE ELSEANY INFORMATION REGARDING U...

2008-09-03T01:10:00.000-07:00

BLOGGER - ANY -ONE ELSE

ANY INFORMATION REGARDING UGC-PAY COMMISSION REPORT FOR PROFESSORS

IT HAS TO COME BY 5th SEPTEMBER???????

PLEASE POST

Hi All,It seems people have misconception about th...

2008-08-26T07:00:00.000-07:00

Hi All,

It seems people have misconception about the fitment benefit... blogger himself seems confused about the same.

In article 1.2.3 CPC describes the Fitment Benefit as under -
Fitment benefit 1.2.3 The efforts of the Commission have been to devise a
suitable pay package which will not only provide enough
incentive to retain the brightest officers but also attract the best
to join it in future. The quantum of fitment has been decided,
accordingly. At the time of Fifth Central Pay Commission,
fitment of 20% of the pre-revised basic pay was recommended.
This was subsequently raised by the Government to 40%. The
Commission is recommending a new structure of running pay
bands and grade pay. In the structure, grade pay has been
normally taken at 40% of the maximum of the pre-revised pay
scale. Grade pay is, therefore, in the nature of fitment benefit.
The pay in the running pay band, as on 1/1/2006, has been
computed by adding the basic pay and dearness allowance at
the rate of 74% that would have been payable on the existing
Fifth CPC pay scales w.e.f. 1/1/2006 had merger of dearness
allowance equal to 50% of the basic pay not been allowed from
1/4/2004.

At another place again CPC says -
Rates of grade pay have been generally
computed at the rate of forty percent of the maximum of the
corresponding pre-revised pay scale which is rounded off to the
next multiple of hundred.

As per blogger if we are going to get multiplier of 1.86 then The fitment had to be (Basic + DP)*24%.

Which is incorrect as CPC clearly mentioned that fitment benefit is being computed at the rate of 40% of the maximum of the
corresponding pre-revised pay scale which is rounded off to the
next multiple of hundred. So in no case it can be (Basic + DP)*24%.

It seems blogger has not read the important parts of the report.

Another thing which is not clear is regarding DA, CPC clearly mentions in article 4.1.18 as follows -

4.1.18 The corollary to this merger should necessarily have been
a revision in the existing reference base of price index of 306.33.
The new reference base, therefore, should have been the 12
monthly average index when the index increased by 50 percent.
The reference base index would have, therefore, been higher than
306.33, given the uptrend in price levels, which would translate to
a lower DA rate compared to the extant rates. Logically, therefore,
conversion of dearness allowance as dearness pay should
invariably be accompanied with simultaneous revision of the
base index. This conversion, however, is not necessary in the
revised structure being recommended where increments are
payable as a percentage of the pay in the pay band and grade pay
thereon and provision has been made for all allowances/benefits
to be revised periodically linked to the increase in the price
index. The Commission is, therefore, not recommending merger
of dearness allowance with basic pay at any stage.

Then how the recommended calculators using da rates which are to be computed and declared accordingly?

I think everybody is just guessing the things.

So please please please.... don't play with feelings or emotions of the Govt employees and please dont try to create hypes among all of them.

Before writing any thing on such blogs, Please, first, make sure its correct to the extents of the information. Because whatever you are writing is going to be read by millions of people all over the world.

Thanks.

Ashwini Kumar.