Ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Narendra Modi government has announced a pay hike or teachers, professors and other academic staff
Here's good news for professors and teachers of every state as ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Narendra Modi government has announced a pay hike.
The academic staff will get the benefits of the 7th Pay Commission with effect from January 1, 2016.
Not only the teachers, the central government has said that the other staff members of universities and colleges will also get a new pay scale.
1. Salary hike of about Rs 40,000
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President of Lucknow University Associated College Teachers Association (LUACTA), Manoj Pandey told Zeebiz.com that implementation of the 7th pay commission will increase the salaries by about Rs 40,000 at professor level while those at the lower level will get a hike up to Rs 7,000 per month
2. Implemented across the country
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Pandey said that the University Grant Commission (UGC) had issued a notice on November 2 to increase the salary of university teachers and employees. However, several states had not implemented the order. But now, after the central government's decision, it will be implemented across the country
3. Government to bear 50% of the expenditure
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The Central government has not just announced a pay hike for academic staff but has also given a relief to the institutions implementing the new pay scale. The government has announced that it will bear 50 per cent of the expenditure occurred on the payments of arrears
4. The move to benefit 29,264 teachers and other academic staff
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The pay hike is said to directly benefit a total of 29,264 teachers and other academic staff of state government funded institutes.
Besides, about 3.5 lakh teachers and other academic staff of private colleges, institutions within the purview of AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) will also benefit from the approval, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar has said
