Monday, October 10, 2011
UGC scale for Karnataka teachers, retirement age raised to 62 years.
The pay revision along the lines of the Sixth Pay Commission
recommendations will benefit an estimated 18,630 university and college
teachers. The beneficiaries of the retirement age enhancement will,
however, be much less.
Announcing the Cabinet decisions, Home Minister V S Acharya said the
revised pay scales for teachers would be implemented with retrospective
effect from January 1, 2006.
The hike for teachers will range between Rs 10,000 and Rs 35,000 per
month depending on the seniority and the positions they hold. The
Cabinet also met the long-pending demands of junior doctors, who had
threatened to go on indefinite strike.
Nearly 4,000 doctors are employed with the health department. The
Cabinet approved allowances between Rs 4,000 and Rs 12,500 a month for
the government doctors.
The hike for doctors (ranging between Rs 3,000 and Rs 8,000 per month)
would be with immediate effect. The decision to hike the pay scale of
university/college teachers is in line with the UGC-constituted Chaddha
Committee recommendation.
The Chaddha committee had recommendations implementation of the revised
UGC scales for college teachers. According to education department
sources, a total of 18,630 lecturers, including 6,740 faculty members in
government colleges, 9,650 in private aided colleges and 2,360 in
university colleges, will benefit from the decision.
The teachers’ wage bill for the government will shoot up from the
present Rs 590 crore to Rs 815 crore per annum, sources added. The
Centre will bear 80 per cent of the revised salary bill from January 1,
2006 to March 2010. Later on, the State Government will have to foot the
entire bill.
Acharya said the arrears of Rs 954 crore would have to be paid as the
difference for a period of 51 months from January 1, 2006, to March 31,
2010. The Union Government will bear 80 per cent (Rs 763 crore) of the
salary bill, and the remaining 20 per cent (Rs 191 crore) will be borne
by the State Government from January 1, 2006, to March 2010. The date of
release of the first instalment of arrears as well as the revised
salary will be announced later.
Source : Deccan Herald
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