The faculty had demanded that assistant professors be placed in pay band 4 with a minimum pay of Rs37,000.
The revised sixth pay commission notification issued by the Union human resources development ministry for centrally funded technical institutions has failed to meet the demands of the faculty of Indian Institutes of Technology.
Protesting against the ministry’s earlier notification of August 18, the All-India IIT Faculty Federation (AIIITFF) had submitted a memorandum of demands to the ministry. HRD minister Kapil Sibal had met AIIITFF representatives and told them that the issues raised by them would be considered.
“Faculty across IITs are extremely disappointed with the fresh notification,” said B Seth, president of the IIT-B Faculty Forum and vice-president of the AIIITFF. “It has corrected only one anomaly.”
The faculty had demanded that assistant professors be placed in pay band 4 with a minimum pay of Rs37,000. The revised notification says assistant professors in IITs, IIMs, IISERs, IISc (Bangalore) and Nitie (Mumbai), on completion of three years of service, will move to pay band 4 (Rs37,000-Rs67,000) with an academic grade pay of Rs9,000 and continue to be designated assistant professors.
“While assistant professors in universities will be automatically upgraded to pay band 4 in three years, the earlier notification had no such provision for IIT faculty, which was unjust,” Seth said.
While lecturers were not part of regular faculty at IITs, the sixth pay commission said that about 10% of the faculty should consist of temporary lecturers earning a gross salary of just over Rs26,000 a month. The faculty had opposed it saying that the remuneration would drive young academicians away. Keeping the earlier conditions intact, the revised notification has altered the designation from lecturer-cum-post-doctoral fellow to “assistant professor”.
The IIT-B Faculty Forum will meet on Friday to decide its course of action. “We will discuss the matter with AIIITFF members,” said Seth.
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