University Grants Commission suggests 70% pay hike

A University Grants Commission appointed pay review committee has suggested salary hikes ranging between 70 per cent and 85 per cent.

The expert panel submitted its report to UGC chairman Prof S.K. Thorat on Friday.

The report will be considered by the commission on October 8 and 9, said Prof. Thorat. Thereafter, it will be submitted to the Union HRD ministry for its consideration and sent to the Cabinet for approval. The panel has suggested that the Centre give 100 per cent assistance to states for the first five years.

The panel recommended that lecturers be called assistant professors and fixed in a pay band of Rs 15,600-39,100 and grade pay of Rs 6,600. Assistant professors (senior scale) come next will the same pay band and grade pay of Rs 7,200, followed by assistant professors (selection grade) and associate professors with the same pay band and grade pay of Rs 8,000.

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Andhra Pradesh to exclude creamy layer from quota for OBCs

The state government has decided to exclude the creamy layer among the backward classes from the ambit of 29 per cent quota in all higher educational institutions.

This decision would have major implications on the admission to professional colleges and other institutions of higher education in the coming academic year.

However, the annual income limit to determine the creamy layer has been raised from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 4 lakh as per the recommendations of a cabinet sub-committee.

A unanimous resolution to exclude the creamy layer from the ambit of reservations was passed at an executive council meeting of the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education held here on Thursday. Mr D. Christopher, secretary of APSCHE, said that the creamy layer decision would come to play in admissions to 2.5 lakh seats in engineering, medical, MBA, MCA and other professional courses apart from PG courses in various universities.

“In our state, there are 25 per cent reservations for BCs apart from 4 per cent reservations category,” said Mr Christopher. Officials of APSCHE and higher education department and vice-chancellors of all the universities in the state took part in the executive council meeting.

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