Teachers of India get united and work out a solution.....

The so-called intellectuals of India are a 'divided lot' in the name of technical, art, Science or physical teacher. Administrators are using them and dividing in the name of Pay Band or AGP/RGP of few hundreds. As a result, parents, guardians and students have to pay in terms of quality and complete future of the coming generations. A teacher imparting elementary education deserves atleast the same regards by his students as due to a professor of the university. Due to the division based on different criteria, teachers in India are a lot demoralized. They have to work as a census worker, an agent to implement several schemes 0f the state and central govt. Even the teachers of professional colleges and universities are deputed on election duties as if they are appointed to carry out the works of civil servants or police department and not to teach the students. It appears from the attitude of Govt. and administrators that education is the least priority sector in India. Come, unite and give this profession a respectful name it once occupied in the history since time immamorial.

Discipline among faculty and students

All are same and no one is different. I had the impression that IIT's are most disciplined institutions as I have been there as a student and have seen discipline among students very closely. IIT faculties have very special concerns for observance of discipline among student community. However, I have come to believe now that all the teachings are for students only. All IITs faculty is ready to resort to all sort of pressure tactics to pressurize Indian Govt. to get good pay packages. Also adament to get better pay structure than their counterpart in NITs, universities and research organizations. Time has come to take few steps to remove disparities and best solution is to get all the institution ranked by an independent autonomous body and based on this ranking decide an additional institutional allowance to faculty as per their rankings. A formula should be evolved to work out the institutional allowance. IIT faculty is expert in developing models and simulation work. Hence, their expertise must be used. Pay scales for the teachers must be uniform irrespective of IIT or IIM tag.

Have a look at pay revision of Teachers/Scientists

Scientists:
Employees of CSIR, ICAR, ISRO and defense and other organizations assigned the job of carrying out research work are called as researchers or Scientists. Nature of duties for all are same but pay packages are different. Why?

>Answer to this "Why" is hidden in thhe vested interests of Scientists and Organizations.
CSIR has different pay package than other organizations. Pay structure of CSIR Scientist can be found at "Revised Pay scales of CSIR Scientists".

> Likewise pay scales of ICAR scientists are based on UGC pay package. Pay structure can be viewed here at "Revised Pay Scales of ICAR Scientists"

Teachers:

> Chadha committee has recommended pay scales for college and university teachers, Revised pay scales are being implemented and details are available.

> Pay scales for Technical staff are based on Govardhan Mehta Committe report. Details are available and scales are in implementation stage.

How to maintain harmony among teaching professionals in India?

Teachers are always teachers irrespective of their affiliation to any particular organization or institution. Problems arise when some issues related to perks, stature becomes contentious for fight among the community already divided in groups as art and science college teachers, music teacher, physical education teacher and technical education teacher. Teachers employed in IIT's consider themselves superior to teachers employed either in NIT's or in art and science colleges or universities. Not only this, even teachers employed in central universities consider themselves superior to teachers engaged in state universities. Although all the educational institutes fall under one umbrella i.e. Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). Sometimes doubts are raised in mind whether MHRD is coordinating various institutes by maintaining the harmony or administering them by dividing them over pay packages, facilities and aids. Why there are so many governing bodies? UGC for Art & Science Colleges and Universities, AICTE for technical institutions. If people teaching in all these institutions are teachers, researching are researchers, then why so many pay panels and different pay packages?

Is there any solution?

There is only one solution for problems related to pay packages. There should be one governing body for all educational institutes in India. There must be single pay package for all teachers across India. However, there could be an institutional allowance payable to teachers of different institutes and this allowance won't be same to all teachers across the India. A rough ranking of the institutions should be done by an autonomous body and institutional allowance should be decided based on the ranking of the institute. All the teachers of all IITs should not be given similar allowance. If one IIT ranks first and other IIT ranks seven in India, allowance should be different to both IITs. Of course, cadres will be different within the institutes and pay package of teachers of different cadres will always be different but assistant professor of IIT should have the similar pay scale as a teacher of art or science college. However institutional allowance will be different for teachers of IITs/IIMs and art / science college.

I would like to have the privilege of quoting the excerpts from the comments of Dr B J Kopar, Daman as these comments fully justify my views:
"It is not totally true that teachers in IITs NITs, alone are best in the profession and do hard work, there are teachers in Primary, Secondary, Higher Secondary and UG PG level who have also put in their effort in shaping these students who are pursuing courses at IITs and NITs. comparatively it is easier to fiddle the ready made stuff than to make it ready. Therefore in generating a perfect asset in the form of a PROFESSIONAL" everyone has share. It shall not be limited only to praise, a medal here and there and some formal felicitations. Efforts should be made to ease the life a teacher not to think and worry about anything else. Therefore the "teaching community should respectfully be given better pay packages than any other professional sector. Make the professional respectful and progressive instead of dividing it in the name of different l