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Aravind Limbavali promises action in a week on revised UGC pay scales

HUBLI: Karnataka Higher Education Minister Aravind Limbavali has said steps will be taken to implement the revised UGC pay scales for college teachers of the State in a week.

Inaugurating the third college “Education Adalat” here on Wednesday — the first to be held outside Bangalore — Mr. Limbavali said several rounds of discussion had taken place with regard to the implementation the revised UGC pay scales and a decision on the mode of payment of arrears and the rate of allowances had been arrived at.

The Minister assured the participants, mainly teaching and non-teaching staff of degree colleges, that in one more week, he would place the issue before the Cabinet sub-committee and take steps for implementing the revised scale.

Referring to the education adalats for employees of degree colleges in the State, the Minister said the next adalat would be held in Mangalore. He said it had been decided to dedicate half-a-day of the adalat for redressing grievances of college employees and the other half for degree college students.

Mr. Limbavali announced that the department had decided to bring back college teachers, who were deputed to PU colleges after the bifurcation of PU colleges and degree colleges. He said the department had decided to re-appoint them to vacant posts in government and aided degree colleges and if there was not enough teaching workload, some of them would be given administrative jobs.

The former Primary and Secondary Education Minister, Basavaraj Horatti, lauded the initiatives taken by Mr. Limbavali to solve the long-pending problems of college teachers and urged him to re-appoint teachers to degree colleges through counselling. He urged the Minister to transfer the employees of collegiate education who had been serving in the same offices for a long time.

Pralhad Joshi, MP, urged the Minister to set up government graduate finishing schools in north Karnataka and also sought a government engineering college for Hubli.

Commissioner of Collegiate Education Nagambika Devi said that a total 1,072 applications had been submitted for the adalat through e-mail, and of them 917 applications had been disposed of.

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