UGC directs colleges to pay ₹50,000 to guest faculty
Sambath.Kumar@timesgroup.com
Trichy:31.01.2019
While the state government is yet to adopt a decade-old guideline of the University Grants Commission (UGC) to enhance the monthly honorarium of guest faculty members in arts and science colleges up to ₹25,000, the commission has now doubled the honorarium in its new guidelines issued on Monday.
Guest faculty across university-run constituent arts and science colleges and government arts colleges in TN get a monthly salary of ₹15,000. There are about 2,400 guest faculty in 41 constituent colleges and more than 1,600 in government arts colleges. Their salary has remained the same for years.
“UGC must make adoption of guidelines mandatory for getting funds,” said A Senthil Kumar, general secretary, TN government constituent college guest lecturers’ association. He raised concern over a UGC move allowing superannuated teachers to be hired as guest faculty up to 70 years. This would affect the prospects of existing guest faculty, he said.
“We have been pleading for salary hike for several years,” said another guest faculty member of a constituent college under Bharathidasan University. “Manonmaniam Sundaranar University pays ₹20,000 a month to guest faculty in its constituent colleges. Other state universities, including Bharathidasan, refuse to do so,” he said.
TN Government College Teachers Association vice-president G Ramesh said, “We were informed that the state is to increase the honorarium to ₹25,000 in a few weeks. We will ask the state to increase the honorarium further as teachers cannot be exploited.”
Sambath.Kumar@timesgroup.com
Trichy:31.01.2019
While the state government is yet to adopt a decade-old guideline of the University Grants Commission (UGC) to enhance the monthly honorarium of guest faculty members in arts and science colleges up to ₹25,000, the commission has now doubled the honorarium in its new guidelines issued on Monday.
Guest faculty across university-run constituent arts and science colleges and government arts colleges in TN get a monthly salary of ₹15,000. There are about 2,400 guest faculty in 41 constituent colleges and more than 1,600 in government arts colleges. Their salary has remained the same for years.
“UGC must make adoption of guidelines mandatory for getting funds,” said A Senthil Kumar, general secretary, TN government constituent college guest lecturers’ association. He raised concern over a UGC move allowing superannuated teachers to be hired as guest faculty up to 70 years. This would affect the prospects of existing guest faculty, he said.
“We have been pleading for salary hike for several years,” said another guest faculty member of a constituent college under Bharathidasan University. “Manonmaniam Sundaranar University pays ₹20,000 a month to guest faculty in its constituent colleges. Other state universities, including Bharathidasan, refuse to do so,” he said.
TN Government College Teachers Association vice-president G Ramesh said, “We were informed that the state is to increase the honorarium to ₹25,000 in a few weeks. We will ask the state to increase the honorarium further as teachers cannot be exploited.”
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