7th
Pay Commission: HRD ministry forms panel to review UGC recommendations
HRD ministry forms committee to review UGC
recommendations on implementation of 7th Pay Commission in educational
institutions after teachers’ associations threaten strike
Prakash Javadekar urged the teachers to refrain from going to strike in view of the examination time and to avoid any disruption in the academic functioning of the varsities. Photo: PTI
New Delhi: The human resource and development (HRD) ministry has formed a committee to review the recommendations made by a University Grants Commission (UGC) panel on implementation of the 7th Pay Commission in educational institutions.
The development comes against the backdrop of teachers’ associations of various universities threatening to go on strike over the “delay” in implementation after the UGC panel submitted its report earlier this year.
“Seventh Pay Review committee for implementing the recommendations (of the 7th pay commission) in educational institutions, universities and colleges has submitted its report to the Ministry. I have constituted a committee headed by Higher education secretary to study them,” Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar said.
The committee will have officials from finance ministry and other relevant offices and it will submit its final recommendations which will go to Cabinet, he added. Javadekar urged the teachers to refrain from going to strike in view of the examination time and to avoid any disruption in the academic functioning of the varsities.
“I appeal to every one not to stage any protests as exams are around the corner and the ministry will ensure that justice is done to everyone. “Those who had some doubts whether government is moving in this direction, let me dispel their doubts that we have already started action and soon they will get good news,” he added.
Prakash Javadekar urged the teachers to refrain
from going to strike in view of the examination time and to avoid any
disruption in the academic functioning of the varsities. Photo: PTI
New
Delhi: The human resource and development (HRD) ministry has formed a
committee to review the recommendations made by a University Grants Commission
(UGC) panel on implementation of the 7th Pay Commission in educational
institutions.
The
development comes against the backdrop of teachers’ associations of various
universities threatening to go on strike over the “delay” in implementation
after the UGC panel submitted its report earlier this year.
“Seventh
Pay Review committee for implementing the recommendations (of the 7th pay
commission) in educational institutions, universities and colleges has
submitted its report to the Ministry. I have constituted a committee headed by
Higher education secretary to study them,” Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar
said.
The
committee will have officials from finance ministry and other relevant offices
and it will submit its final recommendations which will go to Cabinet, he added.
Javadekar urged the teachers to refrain from going to strike in view of the
examination time and to avoid any disruption in the academic functioning of the
varsities.
“I appeal
to every one not to stage any protests as exams are around the corner and the
ministry will ensure that justice is done to everyone. “Those who had some
doubts whether government is moving in this direction, let me dispel their
doubts that we have already started action and soon they will get good news,”
he added.
The pay review committee of
the UGC, which was formed last year and was headed by it member VS Chauhan, had
recommended scrapping ad-hoc and temporary appointments of teachers across
universities. The panel had also suggested that pay of teachers should be in
accordance with the 7th central pay commission, which means the overall salary
of teachers would also go up if the suggestion is accepted by the HRD ministry.
Linking grants to universities to the vacant posts filled by them was also
among the recommendations made by the committee.
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