The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of teaching and non-teaching staff of Puducherry Government Society Colleges have taken strong exception to the government’s decision to implement the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations in eight government colleges alone in the Union Territory in the first phase.
In a statement, D. Ramkumar, president of the JAC, said the decision of the Puducherry government to implement Seventh Pay Commission report in only the eight colleges in the first instance had caused injustice to staff in the society run colleges.
The idea behind starting society colleges was to grant administrative autonomy to these institutions. However, of late, there had been discrimination against these colleges in a matters right from pay to promotions.
Objective defeated
Prof. Ramkumar said the colleges were started according to the norms of the University Grants Commission, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), and other regulatory authorities and the purpose should not be defeated.
Alleging that the government was discriminating against the society-run colleges, he said the move had caused agony to the teaching and non-teaching staff.
‘Casting aspersions’
The Union Territory government’s decision amounted to discriminating against 14,000 students studying in these 19 institutions and casting aspersions on the quality of education.
The government should end this discrimination and implement the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations for teachers of all society-run colleges in the Union Territory, failing which the staff would resort to indefinite boycott of regular duties from January 18, he added.