A notification that had denied several teachers and other staff at the IITs, IIMs and central universities revised allowances for the past 19 months has been amended by the government
A notification that had practically denied thousands of teachers and other staff at the IITs, IIMs and central universities revised allowances for the past 19 months has been amended by the government.
The government has come up with a corrigendum a day after it issued the order last week.
Friday’s amended order means that with effect from July 1, 2017, employees of these institutions would get revised allowances, including house rent allowances.
In its notification issued on Thursday last week, the government had employees of the IITs and IIMs that they would get the revised rates “with immediate effect”.
The government had issued a similar notification to central universities on January 28.
Officials in the human resource development ministry had said the date of the notifications would be the date of implementation. This meant that these employees would lose out on 19 months of revised pay from July 2017.
The corrigendum, however, issued by the ministry amid mounting criticism, says that “with immediate effect” be read as “with effect from 1st July 2017”.
Had the initial notifications been implemented, each professor would have lost Rs 25,000 as house rent allowances for 19 months. The government also feared legal disputes.
Earlier, the Centre had increased basic salaries by 2.5 times with effect from January 1, 2016, and revised the house rent and travel allowances with effect from July 1, 2017.
While central government employees began receiving both the revised rates from the notified dates, the staff at autonomous institutions got only the increased basic pay on time, not the revised allowances. This had created two unofficial categories of employees- the central government and those of autonomous bodies such as the IITs, IIMs, and the central universities.
Meanwhile, member of the executive council of Delhi University, Rajesh Jha said that the government had plans to deny the revised allowances to teachers and staff of autonomous bodies.
“After the government’s plan was exposed and teachers started protesting, it has gone back,” Jha said.
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