Pay Commission revision in allowances cheer academicians
Hike in salaries and stipend will motivate researchers and increase the dignity of academicians
04.02.2019
c-Jagriti.Kumari@timesgroup.com
Seventh Pay Commission brought a bouquet of delightful news for 30,000 teachers and staff of central universities and 5,500 in deemed to be universities, while it will also make the lives of retired professors relevant. The government announced revision of allowances and special allowances for teachers and equivalent academic cadre, registrars, finance officers and controller of examinations in central universities.
Besides increasing the allowance for academicians, the UGC has enhanced honorarium for guest faculty to Rs1500 per lecture subject to a maximum of Rs 50,000 per month. Guest faculties are not entitled for benefit of allowances, pension, gratuity and leave etc as admissible to regular teachers.
“Announcement of allowances, HRA, and the 100% honorarium hike for guest faculties in universities and colleges has come as morale booster for teachers. Such kind of hike is an effort to maintain dignity of a university teacher,” said VS Negi, associate professor, SBS College (evening), Delhi University.
Apart from allowance for academicians, central government has also enhanced the fellowship of PhD students and other research personnel enrolled in any area of science and technology, effective January 1, 2019.
“Hike in research stipend is a commendable move as it will help to retain young talent to focus on research, which is largely ignored in India,” said Vinod Kumar Jain, vice-chancellor of Tezpur University, Assam.
Increased in Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) is yet another welcome step. “Earlier, the hike in fellowship would take place only after 3-4 years of announcement of pay commission,” says Negi.
Fellowship increase will directly benefit more than 60,000 research fellows and will also provide a template to the state government to consider increase in their fellowship rates. Fellowship for the JRFs in the first two years of PhD has increased from Rs25,000 to Rs31,000 per month. Similarly, in the remaining tenure of PhD, SRF will get Rs35,000 a month as against Rs28,000, offered earlier.
This might come as a relief to researchers who recently staged a protest against the MHRD in December 2018, demanding a hike in the stipend.
Hike in salaries and stipend will motivate researchers and increase the dignity of academicians
04.02.2019
c-Jagriti.Kumari@timesgroup.com
Seventh Pay Commission brought a bouquet of delightful news for 30,000 teachers and staff of central universities and 5,500 in deemed to be universities, while it will also make the lives of retired professors relevant. The government announced revision of allowances and special allowances for teachers and equivalent academic cadre, registrars, finance officers and controller of examinations in central universities.
Besides increasing the allowance for academicians, the UGC has enhanced honorarium for guest faculty to Rs1500 per lecture subject to a maximum of Rs 50,000 per month. Guest faculties are not entitled for benefit of allowances, pension, gratuity and leave etc as admissible to regular teachers.
“Announcement of allowances, HRA, and the 100% honorarium hike for guest faculties in universities and colleges has come as morale booster for teachers. Such kind of hike is an effort to maintain dignity of a university teacher,” said VS Negi, associate professor, SBS College (evening), Delhi University.
Apart from allowance for academicians, central government has also enhanced the fellowship of PhD students and other research personnel enrolled in any area of science and technology, effective January 1, 2019.
“Hike in research stipend is a commendable move as it will help to retain young talent to focus on research, which is largely ignored in India,” said Vinod Kumar Jain, vice-chancellor of Tezpur University, Assam.
Increased in Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) is yet another welcome step. “Earlier, the hike in fellowship would take place only after 3-4 years of announcement of pay commission,” says Negi.
Fellowship increase will directly benefit more than 60,000 research fellows and will also provide a template to the state government to consider increase in their fellowship rates. Fellowship for the JRFs in the first two years of PhD has increased from Rs25,000 to Rs31,000 per month. Similarly, in the remaining tenure of PhD, SRF will get Rs35,000 a month as against Rs28,000, offered earlier.
This might come as a relief to researchers who recently staged a protest against the MHRD in December 2018, demanding a hike in the stipend.
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