Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 22: The teaching faculty members of Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu, today called on Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Ghulam Nabi Azad, and submitted a representation regarding non-implementation of 6th Pay Commission recommendations in their favour.
They told the Union Minister that they are shocked by the deferment of 6th Pay Commission implementation in their favour for the second consecutive time by the State Cabinet in its meeting held on August 30, 2012.
It is worthwhile to mention here that whole of the State Government Employees are getting 6th Pay Commission since 2009 and only 28 teaching faculty members of GCET, Jammu are deprived of it.
The faculty members told the Minister that the GCET, Jammu, is the only Government run Engineering Institute in the State, which was established in 1994 as per the AICTE rules and regulations, and the College has qualified technical faculty, who have attained their degrees from the best Engineering Institutes across India and have been recruited by J&K Public Service Commission through proper screening process in the years 1995, 2001, 2007, 2009 and 2010 respectively, as per the recruitment norms laid down by AICTE, but despite this the teaching faculty is drawing their salaries as per the 5th Pay Commission, while the non-teaching faculty is already under 6th Pay Commission and is drawing their salaries at this level since 2009.
“The proposal in this regard was put before the Cabinet in 2011wherein it was deferred. It took more than a year for the official machinery at the secretariat to fetch a solution to this. The proposal was once again put up before the Cabinet again on August 30, 2012, where it was again deferred based on a query related to qualifications vide Cabinet Decision No- 144/23/2012 of August 30, 2012”, the faculty members informed Mr Azad.
They said that AICTE gives recognition to GCET, Jammu every two years after the verification of the Educational Qualifications of the faculty of the College, which in itself contradicts the query raised in the Cabinet.
The Union Minister assured the faculty members to take up the matter with the concerned Minister of the State Government.
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