RONO HILLS, Feb 16: The Rajiv Gandhi University Teachers’ Association (RGUTA) staged a protest march at the university premises in solidarity with Federation of Central Universities’ Association (FEDCUTA) and Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA).

The FEDCUTA has been demanding time bound promotion and 100 percent central assistance to universities. These demands are in lieu of the recent memorandum from the Ministry of Human Resource Development released on January 13, 2017 (Clause 18) which suggests only 70 per cent of fund assistance by the central government and the rest 30 per cent to be managed by individual universities.

The RGUTA demanded withdrawal of this clause as this is an unprecedented attack on the character of public-funded institutions. It threatens to reduce funds to institutions of higher learning. Small Universities like the Rajiv Gandhi University with suffer the most in this case. Also withdrawal of public funding will increase expenditure by parents and students towards education manifold. Exponential fee hike will push a large section of the students out of higher education, especially students coming from economically weaker sections.

Glaring anomalies of the last pay revision have not been addressed, resulting in downgrading of Assistant Professors at every level. Further the notification has also led to the withdrawal of the PhD/M.Phil increments. There is a situation of compulsory stagnation for all senior teachers, including Associate Professors, Professors and Principals. There is no provision for promotion to Professorship in colleges, no resolution of the anomalies of last pay revision, parity of librarians with teachers both in promotion and the age of retirement. Further the allowances for teachers have been delinked from Central Govt. Employees and the MHRD notification stipulates that till the Ministry of Finance decides on the revised allowances of teachers, all allowances will be paid according to the pre-revised pay structure. Also the MHRD notification contains no reference to the revised pension benefits for teachers in accordance with the provisions of the 7^th Pay Revision.

Citing all the anomalies in the notification the RGUTA submitted a memorandum to the Vice Chancellor Prof. Tamo Mibang for on-toward forwarding to MHRD for early redressal.

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
      She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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