Salary of IIIT-A faculty to be at par with IIT
For the faculty members appointed at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (IIIT-A) after September 18, 2009, received a Diwali bonanza ahead of the festival. According to a new government order(GO) issued by Union ministry of human resource development (HRD), these faculty members would henceforth receive salary at par with the teachers of IIT.
This would also eliminate the disparity in salary between faculty members appointed prior and after September 18, 2009 as former are already receiving salary at par with IIT faculty members, while the latter have been receiving salary as per UGC norms.
Institute spokesperson Pankaj Mishra said that the new GO would benefit more than 40 out of 80 faculty members as they would receive arrears running into lakhs from September 18, 2009.
He said that in this connection an office order has already been issued by IIIT-A director intimating the faculty members about the new development. The anomaly in pay scales between the faculty members had arisen in the backdrop of the fact that at the time of it's inception in 1998 to September 18, 2009, the institute faculty members were receiving salary at par with faculty members at IIT's.
However, in 2009 IIIT-A came under the jurisdiction of University Grants Commission (UGC) following the decision of the governing body and the Government of India after which pay scales of faculty members were governed by UGC norms, said Mishra.
However a new GO issued by MHRD recently has removed the anomaly in pay scales.
This would also eliminate the disparity in salary between faculty members appointed prior and after September 18, 2009 as former are already receiving salary at par with IIT faculty members, while the latter have been receiving salary as per UGC norms.
Institute spokesperson Pankaj Mishra said that the new GO would benefit more than 40 out of 80 faculty members as they would receive arrears running into lakhs from September 18, 2009.
He said that in this connection an office order has already been issued by IIIT-A director intimating the faculty members about the new development. The anomaly in pay scales between the faculty members had arisen in the backdrop of the fact that at the time of it's inception in 1998 to September 18, 2009, the institute faculty members were receiving salary at par with faculty members at IIT's.
However, in 2009 IIIT-A came under the jurisdiction of University Grants Commission (UGC) following the decision of the governing body and the Government of India after which pay scales of faculty members were governed by UGC norms, said Mishra.
However a new GO issued by MHRD recently has removed the anomaly in pay scales.
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