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BATHINDA: In a big relief to more than 900 guest faculty lecturers in all government colleges in the state, the Finance Department has agreed to give them salaries for 12 months a year.



Balwant Garg

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, April 26

In a big relief to more than 900 guest faculty lecturers in all government colleges in the state, the Finance Department has agreed to give them salaries for 12 months a year.

So far, these teachers were getting salaries for only 10 months.

While over 50 per cent of posts of regular teachers in 49 government colleges in the state are lying vacant for no regular recruitment by the higher Education Department since 1996, it is the part timer and guest faculty lecturers who are working at these colleges in place of the deficient regular faculty.

So far, the tenure of the guest lecturers is fixed from July 1 to April 30.

As per the rules, their services are deemed discontinued from May 1 to June 30 every year and all of them are re-employed afresh every year on July 1.

For a long time, the guest faculty members have had the demand of getting salary for 12 months.

While acceding to this demand, yesterday, Anil Kumar, deputy director at the office of the DPI (Colleges), Punjab, issued a letter to all government colleges, informing that from May 1, 2017 onward, the guest faculty will get salary for 12 month a year.

As per the letter, earlier, the state government had started the process to allow 12 month salary to the guest faculty on December 30, 2016, and now the Finance Department has given sanction to this proposal.

In April 2016, the state government had increased the salary of guest faculty lecturers from Rs 10,000 per month to Rs 21,600.

Before it, the guest faculty members getting Rs 10,000 per month were allowed 10 per cent increment every year.

To pay salaries to the guest faculty, the state government was contributing 50 per cent to the salary while the remaining was paid from the Parents Teachers Association (PTA) funds.

The PTA funds mainly include the tuition fee and other charges collected from the students.

According to sources in the department, 49 government colleges in state have 1,836 sanctioned posts of teachers but over 900 of these posts are lying vacant for no recruitment in the last over 20 years.

From 2000 to 2007, the vacant posts of the teachers at the government colleges were filled by the part-timers who were paid from Rs 5,000-Rs12,000 from the state treasury.

However, after 2007, there was hiring of teachers as guest faculty and their salary started at Rs 10,000 per month.

From April 1, 2016, the salary of all guest faculty members was uniformly fixed at Rs 21,600.

It is quite interesting that the guest faculty was paid for 10 months but they kept working at the colleges even when the institutes were close.

They were asked to serve as invigilators at examination centres at their respective colleges and also check answer sheets.

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