The All Orissa Non-Government College Teachers’ Association’s (AONCTA) fourth regional consultation on the seventh UGC pay review committee was held at the Jadavpur University, Kolkata last week.
AONCTA president Prof Rabi Roy and All India Federation of University and Colle Teachers’ Organisation (AIFUCTO) former national secretary along with the association’s former president Manindra Samal, joint secretary Umakanta Patra and assistant secretary Akhaya Mahapatra participated in the consultation.
The office-bearers urged for uniform and simultaneous implementation of the revised UGC scale 2016, 100-per cent Central assistance to States for its implementation, removal of anomalies in sixth pay and scrapping of API.
They also demanded recommendation of a scale higher than the scale of Class-I officers in the Central Government, payment of UGC scale to all regular college teachers and health insurance and medical allowance to retired college teachers.
PN College Principal Choudhury PK Das, Sanjay Kumar Parichha from the Sambalpur University Demonstrators’ Association and Bimbadhar Pattnaik attended the workshop.
As per the decision of the AIFCTO, non-government college teachers will go on mass casual leave on October 5, informed AONGCTA president Prof Roy.