Following days of protests by the faculty of IITs and IIMs, who have been alleging discrimination in pay brackets vis-à-vis the UGC, the HRD Ministry is learnt to have assured the protesters fair play in the matter by bringing some kind of parity of scales between IIT and UGC faculty.
Sources in the ministry said assistant professors in IITs and IIMs might be moved to a higher scale of Pay Band IV (starting Rs 37,000) instead of Pay band III as earlier notified. In the recently announced pay scales for the IIT faculty, an assistant professor had been placed in Pay Band III, similar to the scale of the corresponding faculty under UGC scales recommended by the GK Chadha committee.
Whereas in UGC scales, an assistant professor would automatically move to a higher pay band IV after three years of teaching, the said provision was missing in the notified scales for IITs implying that an assistant professor in IIT would earn less than a professor of a UGC recognised university, besides also having to undergo a selection process to go higher in the career ladder as against his UGC counterpart who would move automatically.
The government is said to have told the IITs that it would go to the Cabinet to resolve some of the proposed issues of parity. The decision followed a day-long meeting with IIT directors. That apart, the government is yet to accept higher education technical and management institutes’ demand for incentive-based and scholastic rewards for their faculty.
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