Many employees and officers of Madhya Pradesh are not getting the benefit of 7th pay scale yet. These include the principals of non-government colleges. Now these principals, professors have approached the High Court. The High Court had issued orders to give the benefit of seventh pay scale to the principals, professors but it was not implemented.
After this, once again the High Court has shown strictness on the disobedience of the order. The High Court has issued a notice to the Higher Education Department and others and has summoned the reply. The High Court has given 6 weeks to file the reply. The court has issued a contempt notice to Principal Secretary of Higher Education Shailendra Singh, Principal Secretary of State Finance Manoj Govil in this matter.
The matter was heard before a single bench of Justice Maninder Singh Bhatti in this regard. In this case, on behalf of the petitioners, Gyanendra Tripathi, President of the Government College Teachers Association and Assistant Professor Shailendra Kumar Jain of DN Jain College, Jabalpur, their lawyers presented their side.
Lawyers said that according to the University Grants Commission, a petition was filed in the past regarding the Seventh Pay Commission, on which on February 2, 2022, the High Court had directed to resolve the problem. Despite the lapse of 90 days, till now no decision has been taken regarding the 7th pay scale of the professors. A contempt petition has been filed on this. The order of the High Court was disobeyed by the State Government.
Showing strictness on this, the court has issued a notice to the officials of the Higher Education Department. It is to be known that Madhya Pradesh Non-Government College Professors Association is continuously demanding from the government on this issue since 2017.
Like the professors of government colleges, there is a demand to give the benefit of seventh pay scale to the teachers of non-government colleges.
In January 2019, the state government had given the benefit of seventh pay scale to the teachers of government colleges, but the professors of the aided non-government colleges were deprived of this benefit.