GAYA: Teaching as well as non teaching employees of Magadh University would be getting revised pay as per the recommendations of the seventh pay commission from the month of April 2020. According to the VC Prof Rajendra Prasad, he has passed the necessary instructions in this regard and the university officials have been asked to submit salary bill in the revised scale. The payment will be made in the next few days, said the VC.
The decision to grant the revised pay will benefit more than 1700 employees including about 500 teachers working in the two dozen post graduate depts, 19 constituent and one govt funded minority college. On an average the emoluments of the beneficiary employees will go up by more than 20 pc. Pay fixation of the university employees in the new scale has already been done and as such there is no technical hitch in the smooth implementation of the revised scale, said the VC.
Welcoming the decision to implement revised pay scale, Magadh University Post Graduate Teachers Association President Sushil Kumar thanked the VC and said that at a time when the university fraternity was engaged in developing alternate teaching modes, the pay hike has come as the much needed morale booster.
Asked about the progress of the e learning programme introduced by the university in the wake of the lockdown and minimisation of teaching loss on that account, the VC said that the program has been taken in all seriousness and the results have been encouraging.
Conceding that the limiting factors including the non-availability of quality gadgets with a large number of students and non familiarity of the teachers with the e mode teaching methods offered a challenge, the VC appreciated the role of teachers who have shown great enthusiasm. The VC added the caveat that there was no substitute for classroom teaching on account of direct interaction between the teacher and the taught.
The problem was more serious in subjects requiring lab work and classical subjects like Sanskrit, Pali, Persian and to some extent Hindi and Urdu too, said the VC.
There are about 3 lakh students on the university’s rolls and as such online exam was not the option, said Prof Prasad. The universities of the state do not have the resources to conduct online exam of students of the conventional courses.
He personally favoured computer readable OMR system to fast track the conduct of exam and result publication, said the VC.
The decision to grant the revised pay will benefit more than 1700 employees including about 500 teachers working in the two dozen post graduate depts, 19 constituent and one govt funded minority college. On an average the emoluments of the beneficiary employees will go up by more than 20 pc. Pay fixation of the university employees in the new scale has already been done and as such there is no technical hitch in the smooth implementation of the revised scale, said the VC.
Welcoming the decision to implement revised pay scale, Magadh University Post Graduate Teachers Association President Sushil Kumar thanked the VC and said that at a time when the university fraternity was engaged in developing alternate teaching modes, the pay hike has come as the much needed morale booster.
Asked about the progress of the e learning programme introduced by the university in the wake of the lockdown and minimisation of teaching loss on that account, the VC said that the program has been taken in all seriousness and the results have been encouraging.
Conceding that the limiting factors including the non-availability of quality gadgets with a large number of students and non familiarity of the teachers with the e mode teaching methods offered a challenge, the VC appreciated the role of teachers who have shown great enthusiasm. The VC added the caveat that there was no substitute for classroom teaching on account of direct interaction between the teacher and the taught.
The problem was more serious in subjects requiring lab work and classical subjects like Sanskrit, Pali, Persian and to some extent Hindi and Urdu too, said the VC.
There are about 3 lakh students on the university’s rolls and as such online exam was not the option, said Prof Prasad. The universities of the state do not have the resources to conduct online exam of students of the conventional courses.
He personally favoured computer readable OMR system to fast track the conduct of exam and result publication, said the VC.
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