Magadh University staff to receive revised pay: VC

GAYA: Teaching as well as non-teaching employees of Magadh University (MU) will be getting revised pay as per the recommendations of the seventh pay commission from the April, this year.
MU vice- chancellor (VC) Prof Rajendra Prasad said that he has issued necessary instructions in this regard and the university officials have been asked to submit salary bill in the revised scale.“The payment will be made in the next few days,” said the VC.
The decision to grant the revised pay will benefit more than 1700 employees, including about 500 teachers working in the two dozen postgraduate (PG) departments, 19 constituent and one government-funded minority college. “On an average, emoluments of the beneficiary employees will go up by more than 20%. Pay fixation of the university employees in the newscale has already been done and as such there is no technical hitch in the smooth implementation of the revised scale,” the VC said.
Welcoming the decision to implement revised pay scale, MU Postgraduate Teachers’ Association president Sushil Kumar said at a time when the university fraternity was engaged in developing alternate teaching modes, the pay hike has come as the much-needed morale booster.
Asked about the progress of e-learning programme introduced by the university in the wake of the lockdown and minimisation of teaching loss, the VC said that the program has been taken in all seriousness and the results have been encouraging. “The problem is more serious in subjects requiring lab work and classical subjects like Sanskrit, Pali, Persian and to some extent Hindi and Urdu too,” said the VC.
“There are about 3 lakh students on the university’s rolls and as such online exam was not the option,” Prasad said.