Karnataka Government today decided to increase the salaries of its doctors by Rs 4,500 to Rs 8,000 and regularise the services of 569 working on contract basis.
The doctors had last month threatened to resign en masse if their demands for pay revision and regularisation of services of contract doctors were not met by September 28. The state Cabinet that met here today approved a salary hike by Rs 8,000 to doctors who have completed post-graduation on their own expenses and Rs 5,000 to PG diploma holders, home minister V S Acharya told reporters here.
In service doctors who completed PG under government seat quota would get Rs 5,000 hike and PG Diploma holders Rs 3,000. Salaries of doctors serving in rural areas will go up by Rs 6,000. Doctors who have moved over to urban areas after rural service will get Rs 4,500 increase in salaries, he said. The cabinet also decided to regularise the services 569 doctors, including 107 dentists, now working on contract basis.
The government also decided to implement the revised UGC pay scales to lecturers working in government and aided private colleges in the state with retrospective effect from January 2006.
The cabinet decision adopted to this effect will benefit 11,500 lecturers - working in 349 government colleges and 298 private aided colleges, minister for home, Acharya said.
Stating that the arrears would amount to whopping Rs 954 crore, he said the Centre would share 80 per cent of the financial burden, providing Rs 763 crore while the state would contribute the remaining Rs 191 crore.
Another Cabinet decision was taken to bring down the number of attempts from five to four for general merit students to clear the Gazetted Probationary Examination. However, candidates from backward classes could attempt it seven times and there would be no restriction for SCs and STs, he added.
