The West Bengal Higher Education Department on Monday issued an order for revision of pay scale of college and university teachers with effect from January 1, 2020.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on November 5 had announced that the new pay scale will be implemented from January 1, 2020 and the college-university teachers will get three per cent increment of their respective basic salary for four years from 2016-2019,
A top Higher Education official said, "The Hon'ble CM has already clarified on the issue. The teachers will not get the revised salary from 2016 but from January 1, 2020. They will also get an amount each calculating the three per cent increment of respective basic salary figure from January 2016 to December 2019."
All Bengal University Teachers' Association (ABUTA) said in a statement on Monday, "the pay revision scheme announced by the state government today is not in consonance with UGC 7th pay revision scheme."
Jadavpur University Teachers' Association general secretary Partha Pratim Roy said "never in the past the college and university teachers of state have been deprived of four years' due arrear in this way."
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