Seventh payscale still eludes college, university teachers
B K Mishra | TNN | Updated: Nov 5, 2018, 14:02 IST
PATNA: Even as most universities in the country have already implemented the 7th payscales for teachers with effect from January 2016, the revised pay still eludes them in Bihar. This despite a categorical assurance by chief minister Nitish Kumar several months ago.
Expressing grave concern at the inordinate delay in the payment of revised pay to the university teachers, Federation of University Teachers’ Associations of Bihar (Futab) and Federation of University Service Teachers’ Associations of Bihar (Fustab) blamed the state education department for dilly-dallying the implementation of the chief minister’s announcement regarding revised payscales.
Futab leaders Kanhaiya Bahadur Sinha and Sanjay Kumar Singh and Fustab leaders Ram Jatan Sinha and Dilip Choudhary said the decision to hand over the task to a committee earlier constituted to look into the anomalies of the 6th pay revision is just a delaying tactics of the department as there is practically no anomalies as such with the teachers whose pay in the 6th scale has already been verified by the pay verification cell of the state government.
They said all the central universities started paying the revised payscales to their teachers immediately after the UGC’s notification. Arunachal Pradesh government implemented it in February this year. Rajasthan and Haryana governments implemented the same within a fortnight of their respective CMs’ announcement. Unfortunately, in Bihar, things are moving at a snail’s pace, they said.
They said as per an estimate, the state government would have to bear a financial burden of only Rs200 crore per annum on payment of revised pay to both the working and retired teachers. The central government is ready with its contribution of 50% of this burden from 2016-17 to 2018-19 immediately if the state government implements it immediately.
They urged the chief minister to intervene and expedite the notification of the 7th payscales as a Diwali gift to the university teachers.
Expressing grave concern at the inordinate delay in the payment of revised pay to the university teachers, Federation of University Teachers’ Associations of Bihar (Futab) and Federation of University Service Teachers’ Associations of Bihar (Fustab) blamed the state education department for dilly-dallying the implementation of the chief minister’s announcement regarding revised payscales.
Futab leaders Kanhaiya Bahadur Sinha and Sanjay Kumar Singh and Fustab leaders Ram Jatan Sinha and Dilip Choudhary said the decision to hand over the task to a committee earlier constituted to look into the anomalies of the 6th pay revision is just a delaying tactics of the department as there is practically no anomalies as such with the teachers whose pay in the 6th scale has already been verified by the pay verification cell of the state government.
They said all the central universities started paying the revised payscales to their teachers immediately after the UGC’s notification. Arunachal Pradesh government implemented it in February this year. Rajasthan and Haryana governments implemented the same within a fortnight of their respective CMs’ announcement. Unfortunately, in Bihar, things are moving at a snail’s pace, they said.
They said as per an estimate, the state government would have to bear a financial burden of only Rs200 crore per annum on payment of revised pay to both the working and retired teachers. The central government is ready with its contribution of 50% of this burden from 2016-17 to 2018-19 immediately if the state government implements it immediately.
They urged the chief minister to intervene and expedite the notification of the 7th payscales as a Diwali gift to the university teachers.
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