College teachers to join rally in Delhi for pay revision

Members of the Karnataka Government College Teachers’ Association will be going to New Delhi on May 15 to join a rally there, demanding that the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) make public the recommendations of the seventh pay review committee.

The committee of the University Grants Commission (UGC), headed by V S Chauhan, submitted its recommendations on implementing the seventh pay commission recommendations in educational institutions in February to the MHRD.

“The ministry is creating delays in publishing the recommendations and there is secrecy around it. We do not know what the committee report says. Our foremost demand is that they publish the report so that we can see if there are any anomalies,” said Dr H Prakash, president of the Karnataka Government College Teachers’ Association.

In Delhi, lecturers from Karnataka and several other states will join the All India Federation of University and College Teachers' Association (AIFUCTA) on May 15, in front of the head office of the UGC.
When a delegation of faculty members from various associations met the HRD minister Prakash Javadekar in April, they were told that a committee had been formed to review the recommendations.
‘No response’

“The pay scale is revised every 10 years. It should have been revised and implemented in the beginning of 2016. We have repeatedly written to the minister, but we have not got a response. Hopefully, with this rally, we will be able to put pressure on them,” Prakash said.

DH News Service