IndiaToday.in | Posted by Bijin Jose
New Delhi, October 11, 2017 | UPDATED 19:45 IST
"7.51 lakh teachers in universities will get benefits of the 7th Pay Commission. We must attract talent into academics," Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said.
Image for representationIn a major Diwali bonanza for over seven lakh university and college teachers, the government today announced that they will be getting the benefits of the Seventh Pay Commission.
"7.51 lakh teachers in universities will get benefits of the 7th Pay Commission. We must attract talent into academics," Union Human Resource Development Minister 
Prakash Javadekar said.
The minister said teachers of all centrally-funded deemed universities and 43 central universities will get the benefit of the 7th Pay Commission.
Javadekar also said all assistant and associate professors of 329 state universities and 12912 colleges will also get benefits of the 7th Pay Commission, which will be restrospectively effective from January 1, 2016.