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
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ReplyDeleteBroadly there are 6 categories of teachers (be them school or IIT professors). They are: (1) Primary, (2) Secondary (3) Higher Secondary (4)Under Graduate College (5) PG College/University and finally (6)Technical.
The opportunity and facility for research is available to 4, 5, & 6, whereas 1,2,3 are either not , or do not get the support and/or time for research. Among 4, 5, 6 as above many are of the opinion that basic and prime duty is to teach, and research is secondary. Therefore it will be wise enough for decision makers to ponder and think (seriously enough) about creating TWO SECTORS, VIZ;
TEACHING and RESEARCH.Provide options for existing professional teachers to opt either of one. Build measures for progression in them. A person opting to be in Research sector shall continue to research and produce and add to the body of knowledge. Let the other who prefers to be in TEACHING sector teach. For him PhD and M Phil and any other degree shall only be decorative and one time benefiting events. These shall no bearing whatsoever for the career progression. Develop a better package for teachers of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Even it is heard that qualifications for 1 2 3 as above are lower than what is required for 4 5 6. It is true but nevertheless the hard work put in by these is reflected in the material entering the institutions of 4 5 6. Let there be progressive pay packages for all these 1 to 6, along with institutional allowances stipulated for different categories of achievement. People at the echelon keep saying that talent should attracted, talent should retained, and talent should be honed and used for not only knowledge disbursement but also for Producing it. In the present scenario it is not all possible. Goals are good but the path is laid with so many hurdles, troubles and self created impossibilities.
Why are making so much of hue and cry teaching faculty alone? I would like to quote here "Guru Brhama, Guru Vishnu, Gurudevo Maheshwara" a concept that keeps Guru above all, since gurus are the ones who make better citizens who make the country prosperous.