Teaching is going to be one of the most lucrative jobs, if the recommendations of the Oversight Committee is implemented.
Oversight Committee has suggested goodies galore for academicians.
NEW DELHI: Teaching in higher and technical institutes is going to be one of the most lucrative jobs in the country, should the government implement the recommendations of the Oversight Committee.
The Committee, preparing a roadmap to implement 27 per cent reservation for the OBC students in elite institutes, has suggested goodies galore for lecturers and professors to prevent attrition. And if things gel, then academicians in India will be among the highest paid professionals, just the way it is in America and other developed countries.
“The seat increase to provide reservation is going to be the highest and one of its kind in the world,” M Veerappa Moily, chairman of the Committee, told DNA. “Hence, it has been recommended to leave the matter of hiring and pay-packages to the respective institutes,” he added.
Thus, IIMs and IITs may be given the flexibility to decide upon attractive pay packages, since these institutes want to go beyond the normal salary structure for the faculty. In order to compete with the private sector, the sub-groups of the Committee have recommended giving handsome packages along with a less demanding workload. Besides rich joining allowances, the package would include providing housing, relocation grants, jobs for spouses and assured admission for children.
“A senior professor in IIT gets a package of Rs 40,000 per month at present which, after deductions, comes to Rs 23,000. The same person gets Rs 1 lakh outside,” said professor and former director of IIT, Delhi, DP Kothari.
The Committee has recommended an increase in the retirement age of the teaching faculty besides re-employing retired faculty up to the age of 70.
Another recommendation is doing away with the mandatory qualification like Ph.D. or clearing the National Eligibility Test (NET). In medical, technical, agricultural and engineering institutes, additional supportive staff will be hired.
According to Dr Anoop Misra, Director and Head, Department of Diabetes and Metabolism, Fortis Group of Hospitals, the government should also allow scientists and doctors to earn from their research projects and do contractual consultancy for pharmaceutical companies. Misra recently left AIIMS to join Fortis group of Hospitals.
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