ABRSM hails MHRD move for teachers’ welfare

The State executive president of Akhil Bhartiya Rashtriya Shaikshik Mahasang (ABRSM) Prashant Singh hailed the move taken by the Union Ministry of human resource development (MHRD) of accepting the demands raised by the organisation for the betterment of teachers.

Listing the demands, he said that they included additional incentives like increment and restoration of the higher education qualification like M.Phil and PhD.

“They have been accepted along with the demand to get back to the five-hour work time in higher education from the seven-hour one. 

Besides, we demand that   the college principal can be reappointed for one more term of five years by a committee formed in the respective universities.

Professors with five-year experience in a university or college or a professor with total teaching experiences of 25 years should be made eligible for the post of the vice-chancellor (VC). We are happy to state that all these demands have been accepted by the Ministry along with some others,” he said.  

Singh, further, said, “We appreciate the timely action taken by the Union Minister Prakash Javedekar as well as the University Grant Commission (UGC) in accepting the demands of the teachers working in the Higher Education Department of Uttarakhand  and others working across the country.

However, some of the demands and issues are yet to be accepted. They are meant for the long-term welfare of the  teaching community. ABRSM will keep pressing for them and sending our recommendation to MHRD.”