Audit: Lapses in fixing govt college teachers pay caused ₹125cr loss
Ram.Sundaram@timesgroup.com 15.03.2018
Chennai: Violations in fixing pay for teaching staff in government and aided arts and science colleges in Tamil Nadu and other procedural lapses resulted in a loss of ₹125 crore, an internal audit report has said.
The higher education department received several complaints over procedures followed by the collegiate education directorate in pay fixation under the career advancement scheme (CAS), rectification of anomalies in salaries of seniors compared to juniors and release of incentives for MPhils/PhDs.
Subsequently, the auditwas taken up in all 241 government and aidedcolleges and thefinal report, a copy of which is available with TOI, was submitted afew months ago.
Government orders and University Grants Commission (UGC) norms were violated in all three procedures, the audit noted. While anomalies in salariesof seniors can be rectifiedonly by comparing itwith juniors in the same discipline, comparison was made with thosefrom other disciplines.
Similarly, incentives can be given for acquiring Ph Ds/M Phils only if they are from the discipline in which the staff currently work. However, incentives were given to those with degrees from other disciplines. There were several other procedural lapses which made the state pay more than ₹100 crore to undeserving candidates, itsaid.
The government paid nearly ₹55 crore in excess when orders were passed in 2009 re-designating a section of staff associate professors (APs) as per pay commission recommendations. Readers without a Ph D degree were re-designated APs withselection gradelecturers.
Weeks after receiving the report, collegiate education director J Manjula in a February 2 letter urged all regional joint directors to submit an actiontaken report on the violations pointedout.
Ram.Sundaram@timesgroup.com 15.03.2018
Chennai: Violations in fixing pay for teaching staff in government and aided arts and science colleges in Tamil Nadu and other procedural lapses resulted in a loss of ₹125 crore, an internal audit report has said.
The higher education department received several complaints over procedures followed by the collegiate education directorate in pay fixation under the career advancement scheme (CAS), rectification of anomalies in salaries of seniors compared to juniors and release of incentives for MPhils/PhDs.
Subsequently, the auditwas taken up in all 241 government and aidedcolleges and thefinal report, a copy of which is available with TOI, was submitted afew months ago.
Government orders and University Grants Commission (UGC) norms were violated in all three procedures, the audit noted. While anomalies in salariesof seniors can be rectifiedonly by comparing itwith juniors in the same discipline, comparison was made with thosefrom other disciplines.
Similarly, incentives can be given for acquiring Ph Ds/M Phils only if they are from the discipline in which the staff currently work. However, incentives were given to those with degrees from other disciplines. There were several other procedural lapses which made the state pay more than ₹100 crore to undeserving candidates, itsaid.
The government paid nearly ₹55 crore in excess when orders were passed in 2009 re-designating a section of staff associate professors (APs) as per pay commission recommendations. Readers without a Ph D degree were re-designated APs withselection gradelecturers.
Weeks after receiving the report, collegiate education director J Manjula in a February 2 letter urged all regional joint directors to submit an actiontaken report on the violations pointedout.
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