A general body meeting of the Faculty Association of PGI, Chandigarh, was held on Tuesday. Agitated with the delay in implementation of the sixth pay commission reports, they unanimously reiterated their demands, including pay band-4 for assistant professors, promotion of assistant professor to professor by 10 years and removal of ceiling on basic pay plus non-practicing allowance of the faculty members.
At present, the assistant professors at PGI are placed in pay band-3 and are paid less than their counterparts at GMCH, Chandigarh. This has also resulted in a situation, wherein a newly-appointed assistant professor draws less salary than the senior resident, who is in training and their student.
Currently, an assistant professor is promoted to the rank of a professor after a minimum duration of 15 years, which is in stark contrast to other medical colleges of the country, in which the maximum duration is eight years, with no cadre of additional professor. This leads to embarrassing situations for the PGI faculty as their own students come to take their interviews for their promotion at different levels.
Moreover, the commission report also states that all medical doctors should be given a non-practicing allowance, which is 25% of the basic salary. However, there is a rider that the pay of any government servant cannot exceed that of the cabinet secretary. This is resulting in loss of non-practicing allowance for the senior faculty members as over the years their basic salary increases but the non-practicing allowance keeps on decreasing and the salary remains static. This results in a professor drawing a non-practicing allowance less than that by his junior colleagues.
source:timesofindia
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