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From the Desk of the PresidentFriends

The last twelve months had been extremely ‘eventful’ to say the least. Since theunfolding of the Presidency episode, the Association took an unambiguous stand inregistering protest through rallies, sit-in demonstrations, conventions and repeated callsto media -both visual and print. Unfortunately neither the then functionaries in thegovernment, nor those in the political circles, cared to listen to our logic. Moreover, anelection was forced upon us in a manner which belies any hope of justice ever beingmet. The results of this election to the post of General Secretary of our association areto be viewed as a referendum in the question of severance of Presidency College fromthe service.

The election to the State legislative assembly was held in the early part of this year anda new government took over the reigns in May. The wind of change was overpowering.It rekindled newer hopes in many and forced others to re-evaluate themselves. However,no service association can simultaneously play to the tune of the government and protestagainst the measures that betray the general interest of its members. There are reasonsto believe that for a long time the leadership of our association was overenthusiasticallykeen on proving themselves to be the blue-eyed boys of the government. Many suchruffled feathers are strewn around us today.

The association, however, need not always be at loggerheads with the administration.The present leadership has its task cut out in view of extreme marginalization of ourservice. Our members believe that, despite several limitations, in its brief tenure, thepresent leadership could dispel any notion of being tagged ‘doublespeak’. Thisunambiguous, pro-member stand would never ever be compromised. In the days tocome, the higher education scenario in the country is going to face severe corporateonslaught. The government at the Centre views the teachers as service providers in amarket oriented system and proposes several bills which are going to hurt the very coreof the public funded education. With PFRDA in vogue, a teacher’s post-retirement lifewould no longer be secure. Disparities in age of superannuation, dues in arrears, non-issuance of Government Orders relating to CAS regulations are some areas which haveevoked huge disenchantment among the teachers. Corporatization of century oldgovernment institutions is another real threat which we would be forced to deal with asstakeholders. It is true that our action-areas are severely constrained by the regulationsimposed on the cadre, but that should not be deemed as deterrent enough in makingour voices heard, loud and clear, for the right cause. Winning trust is no meanachievement but, remaining trustworthy is of far greater value.

With greetings

Swapan Bhattacharyya

2 WBGCTA NEWS LETTER, NOVEMBER 2011

CONTENTS

Members, Executive Committee ................................................. 3

Members, College Committees ................................................... 4

Members, Sub-Committees ........................................................ 7

Reports on the Meetings

Executive Committee ............................................................. 9

General Council ..................................................................... 9

Sub-Committees ...................................................................14

Correspondence ........................................................................16

Government Orders ...................................................................49

AIFUCTO News .......................................................................... 78

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Press and Publication Sub-Committee

Rupa Banerjee

Ariktam Chatterjee

Debasish Mallick Gouranga Biswas Jana ChakrabortyJayjit Dhar Krishna Roy Paramita ChaudhuriPartha Gangopadhyay Piu Ghosh Pritam BanerjeeProjjal Datta Smriti Ray Tapasree Das

COMMITTEES AND REPORTING 3

PresidentSwapan Bhattacharyya

Vice PresidentRupa Banerjee

Shyamal Kumar ChakrabortySyamal Kumar Basak

General SecretaryDebasish Sarkar

Joint SecretaryNilay Ray

Rajkumar ChakrabartiSatarupa Bandyopadhyay

Sk. Emanul Haque

TreasurerArun Kumar Roy

Members

West Bengal Government College Teachers’ Association1 Bankim Chatterjee Street, Kolkata - 700073

Members, Executive Committee - 2011-12

Anadi Kumar KunduAnisur Rahaman

Arpita BhattacharyaAshim Kumar Bose

Baisali SinhaGouranga Dandapat

Irani SilRujas Yonle

Saikat Sarkar

Sajal Kumar MaitiSamiran GhoshSantanu ChakrabartiSantanu DasSomenath DeySubhas Chandra BhatSudipta MullickTapas Chandra Saha


1. ACHARYA BROJENDRA NATH SEAL COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Anil Kumar SarkarUnit Treasurer Tilak SahaGeneral Council Anil Kumar Biswas

Chandra Sekhar PanditDipyaman Pal(Erstwhile Bikash Bhavan Unit)Ramchandra PramanikSamiran GhoshSanghamitra GhoshSrijit DasSanghita Ghosh

2. A.P.C. ROY GOVERNMENT COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Nabanita PaulUnit Treasurer Pulakesh GhoshGeneral Council Nilay Ray

Subhodip Samanta

3. BARASAT GOVERNMENT COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Sumanta MukhopadhyayUnit Treasurer Mriganka De SarkarGeneral Council Aparna Bandyopadhyay

Biplab ChattopadhyayJayanta Joy ChattopadhyayMrinal Kanti SarkarPrabir Kr. SenRupa BanerjeeSantanu Chakrabarti

4. BETHUNE COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Chandana DuttaUnit Treasurer Gargi NagGeneral Council Anjali Maisal

Gopa GuptaKajari LahiriKeya BoseMadhumita MannaManjari GhoshSatarupa BandyopadhyaySuchimita Maitra

5. BIDHANNAGAR COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Shoumyasree SenUnit Treasurer Anup Kumar SenguptaGeneral Council Dola Chattopadhyay

Kaushik BhattacharyaNarayan Chandra BarNirmalendu SakharuPradipta MukhopadhyaySaikat SarkarShyamal Kr. ChakrabortySwati Sen

6. CHANDERNAGORE COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Gautam GangulyUnit Treasurer Chandrani ChatterjeeGeneral Council Arindam Goswami

Bhaswati GhoshBimal Kumar MondalBrij Kumar TiwariManas Ranjan MajumderPrabir BhattacharyaSk. Emanul HaqueSukumar De

7. DARJEELING GOVERNMENT COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Himanshu KumarUnit Treasurer Chakradhar PradhanGeneral Council Dipankar Sen

Namrata PariyarPrajna Paramita SarkarRujas YonleSayeedur Rahaman(Erstwhile Bikash Bhavan Unit)

8. DAVID HARE TRAINING COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Purnendu AcharyaUnit Treasurer ByaptiGeneral Council Smriti Roy

Subhas Chandra Bhat


Members, College Committee : 2011 - 2012


9. DURGAPUR GOVERNMENT COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Sandip BandopadhyayUnit Treasurer Saswati ChakrabortyGeneral Council Anisur Rahaman

Arijit GoswamiDebashis BanerjeeMuralidhar NandiRaghunath HazraSanat Kumar MahatoSomenath DeySudipta Pal

10. GOENKA COLLEGE OF COMMERCE AND

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Unit Secretary Biswajit BhowmikUnit Treasurer Sandip Kumar PanditGeneral Council Debasish Maitra

Sajal Kumar MaitiSujit Kumar RoyTarun Kumar Sarkar

11. GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, BANIPUR

Unit Secretary Pratap KabirajUnit Treasurer Goutam PatraGeneral Council Hare Krishna Mandal

Urmi Chakraborty

12. GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF EDUCATION,BURDWAN

Unit Secretary Sujit ChattopadhyayUnit Treasurer Chandan AdhikaryGeneral Council Ashraf Hossain

Sudakshina Mitra

13. GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND

CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY

Unit Secretary Tapas Kr. BhattacharyaUnit Treasurer Kaberi DasGeneral Council Mousumi Maitra

Saikat Maitra


TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY, BERHAMPORE

Unit Secretary Pratip DuttaUnit Treasurer Chandan Sinha RoyGeneral Council Bapi Saha

Subhas Chandra Roy


TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY, SERAMPORE

Unit Secretary Himansusekhar GuhaUnit Treasurer Dibyendu RayGeneral Council Biswapati Chatterjee

Chandrakanta Saha

16. GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

FOR WOMEN, DINHATA

Unit Secretary Susanta SarkurUnit Treasurer Pintu SilGeneral Council Kabila Bairagi

Swapna Ray Barma

17. GOVERNMENT TEACHERS’ TRAINING COLLEGE,MALDA

Unit Secretary Abdus SalamUnit Treasurer Palash DasGeneral Council Shyam Sundar Kundu

Sumanta Chattaraj

18. HALDIA GOVERNMENT COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Dilip Kumar MahantyUnit Treasurer Shyam Sundar SahooGeneral Council Kaustav Bakshi

Mahua PatraShubhankar SamantaSubhra Dey (Erstwhile

Bikash Bhavan Unit)Somnath DeySuman Nath

19. HOOGHLY MOHSIN COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Samiran MallickUnit Treasurer Buddhadeb ChandraGeneral Council Arghya Panigrahi

Bimal Kumar SettBiplab BhattacharyaOmar GhazaliPranab Kumar GangulyPratap Kumar SenPrem Kumar AgarwalRajendra SahaSourabh MukhopadhyaySudipta Mullick

20. INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION FOR WOMEN,CHANDERNAGAR

Unit Secretary Sampa Daw (De)Unit Treasurer Keka TrivediGeneral Council Mahasweta Palaniyandi .

Nagarjun Bharadwaj

21. INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION FOR WOMEN,HASTINGS HOUSE

Unit Secretary Sarbari BakshiUnit Treasurer Baishali Basu RoychowdhuryGeneral Council Aparna Chakraboiiy

Smritikana Majumdai


22. JALPAIGURI GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING

COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Anil Ranjan SarkerUnit Treasurer Arindam SahaGeneral Council Gopal Das

Nikhil Kumar Jas

23. JHARGRAM RAJ COLLEGE

Unit Secretary VacantUnit Treasurer Shampa Sarkar (Biswas)General Council Chhandam Chakraborty

Dilip Kumar MahantiGouranga DandapatPradip Kumar KarRajkumar ChakrabortiSumana Sengupta

24. KALYANI GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING

COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Satadal MalUnit Treasurer Uttam DasGeneral Council Anup Dey

Jagannibas Paul ChoudhuriKaushik Das SharmaSantanu Das

25. KRISHNAGAR GOVERNMENT COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Pintu BanerjeeUnit Treasurer Manoj Kumar HaldarGeneral Council Anupam Chakraborty

Asis Kumar PanditDebabrata MukhopadhyayIrani SilSanchita KunduSubhajit SenguptaSudipta PramanikSwarup Bose

26. LADY BRABOURNE COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Anita MukherjeeUnit Treasurer Shaheen SultanaGeneral Council Abira Chakraborty

Aditi Nag ChaudhuriArpita BhattacharyaBaisali SinhaChhanda Basu ChaudhuriKakoli Sinha RayManasi DeNatasa DasguptaSuriti Ray

27. MOULANA AZAD COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Ujjal Baran RoyUnit Treasurer Avijit MandalGeneral Council Anis Akhtar

Anjan Kumar DuttaChittaranjan DasDabir AhmedGholam SarwarSamar ChattopadhyaySandip Kr. MandalSucharita Ghosh (Sengupta)Swapan Bhattacharyya

28. POST GRADUATE GOVERNMENT INSTITUTE FOR

PHYSICAL EDUCATION, BANIPUR

Unit Secretary Soumendra Nath GhoshUnit Treasurer Som Shankar ChatterjeeGeneral Council Arun Kumar Roy

Ashim Kumar Bose

29. ERSTWHILE PRESIDENCY COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Angshuman SarkarUnit Treasurer Subhasundar BandyopadhyayGeneral Council Sanghita Sen

Soma BasuSravani RaySyamal Kumar Basak

30. SANSKRIT COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Partha GangopadhyayUnit Treasurer Noor Bano SattarGeneral Council Anadi Kumar Kundu

Loknath Chakrabarti

31. STATE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR

WOMEN, HASTINGS HOUSE

Unit Secretary Amit BanerjeeUnit Treasurer Gopa Sana RoyGeneral Council Asish Paul

Subhra Basak

32. TAKI GOVERNMENT COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Arpan ChakrabortyUnit Treasurer Saika HossainGeneral Council Jayanta Biswas

Jayanta MistriParamita ChaudhuriSanjoy ChattopadhyayTapas Chandra Saha


Sub-Committees : 2011-2012

Academic Affairs Sub-Committee1. Subrata Hore Convener2. Aniruddha Pal Member3. Arup Hait ,,4. Bidyut Pal ,,5. Bimal Dirghangi ,,6. Dabir Ahmed ,,7. Enamul Haque ,,8. Hemen Biswas ,,9. Manjari Ghosh ,,

10. Mustafizur Rahman ,,11. Namita Chakraborty ,,12. Partha Gangopadhyay ,,13. Pinaki Roy ,,14. Sanghita Sen ,,

AIFUCTO Sub-Committee1. Syamal Kumar Basak Convener2. Arun Kumar Roy Member3. Amal Chandra Barman ,,4. Arindam Dutta ,,5. Baisali Sinha ,,6. Chandana Dutta ,,7. Debaprasad Banerjee ,,8. Debnath Palit ,,9. Krishna Dasgupta ,,

10. Md. Abdur Rafik Sardar ,,11. Namrata Pariyar ,,12. Sanju Das ,,

Data-Base Management Sub-Committee1. Krishnendu Dutta Convener2. GourGopalRoy Member3. Nabanita Kundu ,,4. Nanda Das ,,5. Partha Gangopadhyay ,,6. Saikat Naskar ,,7. Sanjay Poddar ,,8. Sanjoy Roy ,,9. Soma Samaddar ,,

10. Tirthapratim Adhikari ,,11. Tista Das ,,

Engineering and Technological CollegesSub-Committee

1. Pradip Kumar Das Convener2. Anjan Biswas Member

3. Biswapati Chatterjee ,,4. Indrajit Bhattacharya ,,5. Kalyan Mahata ,,6. Mausumi Maitra (Majumder) ,,7. Pratik Dutta ,,8. Ranjan Ray ,,9. Sanchayan Mukherjee ,,

10. Sanjoy Chakraborty ,,11. Santanu Das ,,12. Satyendra Nath Mandal ,,13. Subhas Chandra Ray ,,14. Subhashis Maitra ,,15. Subrata Ghosh ,,

Library Sub-Committee1. Biswajit Banerjee Convener2. Abira Chakraborty Member3. Anjali Maishal ,,4. Bijoy De ,,5. Chaiti Chakraborti ,,6. Goutam Dutta ,,7. Kankan Chowdhury ,,8. Kartic Chandra Dey ,,9. Krishna Nandi ,,

10. Lakshmi Narayan Maity ,,11. Mitali Bhattacharya ,,12. Nayyar Jamal ,,13. Nirmalendu Sankharu ,,14. Shyam Sundar Kundu ,,15. Soma Basu ,,16. Tapasree Das ,,

Physical Education Sub-Committee1. Atin Dey Convener2. Amit Banerjee Member3. Ashim Kumar Bose ,,4. Asish Paul ,,5. Jayanta Biswas ,,6. Kabita Bairagi ,,7. Lakshminarayan Kaibarta ,,8. Malay Mukhopadhyay ,,9. Nina Dutta ,,

10. Soumendranath Ghosh ,,11. Susanta Sarkar ,,12. Tarun Bera ,,

Press and Publication Sub-Committee1. Rupa Banerjee Convener2. Ariktam Chatterjee Member


3. Debasish Mallick ,,4. Gouranga Biswas ,,5. Jana Chakraborty ,,6. Jayjit Dhar ,,7. Krishna Roy ,,8. Paramita Chaudhuri ,,9. Partha Gangopadhyay ,,

10. Piu Ghosh ,,11. Pritam Banerjee ,,12. Projjal Datta ,,13. Smriti Ray ,,14. Tapasree Das ,,

Seminar Sub-Committee1.Prabal Bagchi Convener2.Monami Goswami Member3.Debasri Basu4.Niloy Das5.Prabal Mukherjee6.Rajib Bhattacharya7.Ranajit Karmakar8.Rupa Banerjee9.Saika Hossain10.Sampa Mitra Sanyal11.Samapti Saha12.Sheonath Pandey13.Sujay Dasgupta14.Sushmita Bhattacharya

Service Condition Sub-Committee1. Shyamal K. Chakraborty Convener2. Arun Kumar Roy Member3. Abhijit Chowdhury ,,4. Anadi Kumar Kundu ,,5. Anindya Sengupta ,,6. Anis Akhtar ,,7. Arpan Chakraborty ,,8. Arindam Dasgupta ,,9. Bandana Chakraborty ,,

10. Bldyut Roy ,,11. Biplab Chaterjee ,,12. Dipyaman Pal13. Mou Roy ,,14. Mrinal Kanti Basak ,,15. Prabir Kumar Das ,,16. Saibal Gupta ,,17. Samar Chattopadhyay ,,18. Sampa Dutta Gupta ,,19. Samsur Alam ,,20. Sanat Mahato ,,21. Suman Mukherjee ,,22. Subhalaksmi Dasgupta ,,

Training College Sub- Committee1. Taps Mitra Convener2. Asraf Hossain Member3. Bishnupada Bera ,,4. Baishali Basu Roy ,,5. Biswanath Bandopadhyay ,,6. Chandan Adhikary ,,7. Dilip Kumar Thakur ,,8. Harekrishna Mandal ,,9. Jayashree Banerjee ,,

10. Koustav Bhattacharya ,,11. Palas Das ,,12. Pranab Majumder ,,13. Pratap Jana ,,14. Ranabir Bandyopadhyay ,,15. Rathindranath De ,,16. Sagar Mandal ,,17. Sarbari Baksi ,,18. Shampa De Daw ,,19. Sibaprasad De ,,20. Sila Mukherjee ,,21. Smriti Roy ,,22. Somnath Manna ,,23. Subhash Chandra Bhat ,,24. Sujata Raha ,,25. Sumanta Chattaraj ,,

As per provision of the constitution of WBGCTA, in the meeting of the General Council, the ElectionCommission (2011 - 2012) was formed with the following members.

1. Subrata Kar2. Jayanta Sen3. Madhusudan Ghosh4. Partha Dasgupta5. Susovan Banerjee

Note:Following the provision of the constitution vide chapter VIII Sub clause 8(ii), the Election Commission inits first meeting elected Susovan Banerjee to act as the Chairperson of the Commission.


REPORT ON THE MEETINGS HELD SINCE SEPTEMBER, 2010

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Meeting I : March 12, 2011

Proceedings and Resolution:

The General Secretary reported on the large-scale issuance of transfer orders involving around 19 (nineteen)subjects in the last one calendar year; transfer order in Bengali was the last one which involved as many as twentyfive teachers.

It was reported that the Association took the necessary initiative in getting the second instalment of arrearsof teachers (in colleges linked to the Pay & Accounts office) released as also the issuance of Government Orderrelating to arrears for teachers in the Engineering and Technological colleges.

The members expressed their resentment relating to the issuance of an ambiguous order with respect of37000/- - 67400/- and resolved to register their protest and seek modification of the same, according to thenotification/order issued by UGC/MHRD.

In the meeting it was discussed and resolved that the Government be urged to expedite the process of CASand issue the necessary order following the old Regulation till 29.06.2010.

Problems relating to the Engineering colleges were discussed at length and it was resolved that a workshopshould be arranged involving the teachers of all the Government Engineering and Technological Colleges to highlightthe problems and prospects of the Government colleges in our state.

Meeting II: November 9, 2011

Proceedings and Resolution:

An emergency meeting was convened to discuss and frame our views sought by the West Bengal StateCouncil of Higher Education on their proposed plan to devise an ‘effective performance appraisal system for thecollege teachers, college principals’.

The General Secretary briefly appraised the house about the backdrop of the letter in question, dated 4-11-2011 from WBSCHE. After extensive discussions on the criteria mentioned in the letter, the participants arrivedat a consensus on the content of our submission. It was decided that our submission would be submitted to theChairman, WBSCHE, on 11 November, 2011.

The contents of our submission are given in the letter to the Chairman, WBSCHE.

GENERAL COUNCIL

Meeting: X 26 September, 2010

Proceedings and ResolutionsMinutes of the last General Committee meeting held on 8.8.2010 were read and confirmed.Sri Arun Roy, Treasurer, reiterated that the last date of membership for the preparation of the Voters List is

30.09.2010 for elections to the office of different constitutional positions and to the post of General Secretary,for the period 2011-2012.

Smt. Tapasree Das, Chairperson, Election Commission, submitted the draft of the Election Schedule for theCollege Committee and for the post of General Secretary for approval.


SCHEDULE OF ELECTIONS : 2011-12

1. PUBLICATION OF ELECTORAL ROLL 23.04.2010 Friday2. SUBMISSION OF NOMINATION PAPERS 29.04.2010 Thursday

and30.04.2010 Friday (6.00 to 7.00 am).

3. SCRUTINY OF NOMINATION PAPERS 04.05.2010 Tuesday (6.00 pm).4. PUBLICATION OF LIST OF CANDIDATES 04.05.2010 Tuesday

After scrutiny5. WITHDRAWAL OF NOMINATION PAPERS 05.05.2010 Wednesday (6.00 to 7.00pm).6. PUBLICATION OF FINAL LIST OF

CONTESTING CANDIDATES 06.05.2010 Thursday7. POLL 23.05.2010 Sunday (11 .00 am to 3.00 pm).8. PUBLICATION OF LIST OF ELECTED CANDIDATES 25.05.2010 Tuesday, (5.30 P.M.)

She also informed that the unit Secretary and unit Treasurer of Presidency College unit have written a letterto the Chairperson of the Election Commission and placed the same to the house.

To 24 September, 2010Chairperson, Election Commission,West Bengal Government College Teachers’ AssociationBankim Chatterjee Street Kolkata - 700 073

Sub. : Renewal of membership of Presidency College Unit

Dear Madam

This is to inform you that we have contacted the Treasurer of WBGCTA regarding renewal of membership ofour College Unit for the year 2010. We were informed by him that the Bills for collecting membership subscriptionhave been collected by Sri Syamal Kumar Basak, a member of our College Unit. On contacting him, he informed usthat the members of this unit have to renew their membership either directly from him or by visiting the AssociationOffice, where as existing Unit Secretary and Unit Treasurer we have no role to play in this matter.

We would like to remind you that in the past history and precedence of our Association operation, neversuch thing had happened where the role of a Unit Secretary and/or Treasurer have been disregarded in renewingmembership of the members.

Therefore, we would like to request you to kindly make arrangement for renewal of memberships of willingmembers of our Unit within the stipulated date keeping in mind that this year is the Election Year of our Association.

Thanking you.

Yours sincerelyTreasurer SecretaryPresidency College Unit Presidency College Unit

The News Letters of the Association for the month of September 2010, was officially released by the President,in the meeting. All the members unanimously hailed the publication as an immensely valuable document.

At the outset, the General Secretary in his report congratulated all the members for successful observationof the programme of Demand Day on 20th August, 2010.

He also observed that the movement programme against Presidency University Act. 2009 is an ongoingprocess and that the Association will never cease to denounce the unwelcome transformation.

He also underscored the other demand such as:

● Formation of University of Bengal comprising of all government colleges.● Creation of 224 new teaching posts against those which continued to exist in Presidency College.● Establishment of new Government Colleges in Kolkata and the districts.


● Filling up of vacancies in WBES and WBSES, Librarians, and those of non-teaching staff.● Determining 65 as the age of superannuation and payment of full arrears as per UGC Guidelines.He also reminded that the AICTE pay scale for Engineering and Technological colleges has been declared and

Association efforts in this regard undoubtedly paid dividends and also reported that that the arrear salary forGovernment Engineering and Technological Colleges has not been issued and that the Association would lookafter the matter.

He informed the house that the Government has been ensuring a stay of at least 4 yrs. in ‘C’ zone collegesand that the Association has protested against developments which are against the interest of the members. Healso stressed that the pains and pleasures of a posting ought to be shared by all the members.

He informed that the AIFUCTO’s Annual General Conference would be held from 21st to 23rd Nov., 2010 atJalgaon (North Maharastra University) and those interested in taking part should inform the treasurer of theAssociation immediately.

He stated that any teacher of Presidency College who was willing to take membership was welcome, butwhether they had the moral right to retain membership was to be decided by themselves. It was difficult tounderstand what prevented them from renewing membership of the Association. Sri Sarkar hoped that therewas still time left and members of Presidency College unit are to resolve the issue by sorting it out among them,or by approaching the Central office.

Finally, he suggested that Hastings College ground be selected as the venue for the next annual conferencewhich could be held on 22nd and 23rd January, 2011. The proposal was open for discussion among the members.

The following resolutions were adopted in the meeting —1. Last year’s tariff structure for collection of advertisements in Annual Report 2010 would remain

unchanged.2. The Annual Conference of the Association would be held at Hastings College on 22nd and 23rd January

2011.3. A New unit of WBGCTA would be formed at the Siliguri Government CollegeThe meeting ended with thanks to the Chair.

Meeting: XI 14 November, 2010

Proceedings and Resolutions

The sad demise of our beloved and respected Ex-General Secretary Dr. Pabitra Nanda Thakur was announcedwith a heavy heart. The house observed silence for his departed soul.

After confirmation of the proceedings of the last meeting, the General Secretary reported in detail about thetransfer orders issued and identified the anomalies for necessary correction. The unique set of problems ofteachers and the colleges in general; those of the Engineering and Technological College were also mentioned,that called out for immediate redress. Sincere efforts of the Association to remove the problems, was also reportedin details.

It was reported in the meeting that the Association continues to pursue with all earnestness, the need forissuance of order relating to the final version of the Regulation involving CAS and other benefits to the teachers;age of superannuation at 65 years, release of 80% arrears, release of 1/3rd of 20% arrears from the stategovernment.

The General Secretary expressed his strong resentment regarding the conversion of Presidency College toUniversity and highlighted with all details the irreparable damage caused to our service as well as the instituteitself. He also expressed his resentment and dismay at the inert attitude of the State Government on this issue.The question of a compensation of sorts arising out of dismemberment of Presidency College and on the decade-old demand for formation of a separate University comprising all the Government Colleges in the State wasreiterated.

Regarding the forthcoming Annual Conference, it was suggested that the venue of the Conference could beat the Hastings House Campus and the date of the conference fixed as 22-23 January, 2011.

Many members present in the meeting participated in the discussion relating to the Presidency and otherservice matters. At the end it was resolved that (i) 39 Annual Conference will be held on 22-23 January, 2011 atthe Hastings House Campus. (ii) Principal/Officer in Charge of Institute of Education for Women and State Institute


of Physical Education for Women, will be requested to take due initiative to organise the conference in the HastingCampus. (iii) The Tariff Structure for advertisement as proposed by the Treasurer of the Association was accepted.(iv) Members of different Colleges were requested to express their views/ideas/issue to prepare the draft of theAnnual Report and the Resolutions to be placed in the conference.

The meeting ended with vote of thanks to the Chair.

Meeting: XII 9 January, 2011


After confirmation of the proceedings of the last meeting of the General Council, the General Secretaryplaced the draft of the Annual Report and the set of Resolutions to be placed in the 38th Annual Conference ofthe Association.

The member present in the meeting deliberated on the matter placed in the house and finalise the shape forthe ensuing Conference.

The Treasurer of the Association placed before house the Audited Report and the proposed Budget for theperiod 2011-12 and members endorsed the same.

Meeting: I 5 February, 2011


As per the provision of the Constitution of the Association, a meeting of the General Council was held at theoffice of the Association to hand over the charge to the newly elected body of the Association. The outgoing aswell as newly elected members of the General Council were present.

Meeting: II 27 February, 2011


After confirmation of the proceedings of the last meeting, the members present in the meeting unanimously,elected/selected the members to form Election Commission and different Sub-Committee for democraticfunctioning of the association (the name of the members in commission/various committees are given in page ).

As per the constitution of our association the provision of co-option of seven GC members were placed inthe meeting. But after a long debate and discussion, this proposal for co-option was not accepted.

It was also decided, that there being no provision for a separate unit of the Association at Bikash Bhavan inour constitution, the existence of the said Unit henceforth will be discontinued.

Based on the report of the General Secretary, many members participated in the discussion relating to regularissuance of transfer order as well as the anomalies in the transfer order issued; the vacancy position in differentGovernment Colleges; the question of inclusion of Librarians in the WBES; creation and filling up of the posts inthe Post Graduate Department of Urdu at Hooghly Mohsin College; anomalies with respect to the order of AssociateProfessor and seek the modification of the same immediately; in-service effect of Ph. D. in CAS; to expedite thematter of recruitment process, the need for an immediate decision relating to the age of superannuation uniformlyat 65 years; immediate release of 80% arrears; the status of academic autonomy that should be extended to allthe PG departments in different Government Colleges affiliated to different Universities other than the CalcuttaUniversity, where the issue of academic autonomy has already been settled.

Meeting: III 29 May 2011


After confirmation of the proceedings of the last GC meeting, the General Secretary observed that as a newGovernment has taken charge in the state on 20th May 2011, the Association should extend its good wishes tothe new Government in the best of our traditions. It was expected, as also ascertained in the meeting that thefunctional working relationship between the Government and our Association, ought to remain unchanged.

The members discussed different issues at length, viz., anomalies relating to the scale of Rs. 37,000-


67,400/-, vacancy in different subjects, the critical situation prevailing in different training colleges at the eve ofNAAC.

It was stressed that all effort should be made to retain Presidency College as a government college affiliatedto the newly formed Presidency University, since the transformation of Presidency cannot be undone at thisjuncture.

The meeting ended with the resolutions – (i) that the Association should write a letter to the Chief Minister,Government of West Bengal, stating in brief the ‘Presidency Episode’ and our demand under the changedcircumstances; (ii) that a separate letter be sent to the Hon’ble Minister in Charge (HE), stating the problems ofGovernment Colleges, classified under the heads (a) Academic and (b) Service matters. (iii) Also resolved, that anintensive drive be made for renewal of membership to our Association.

Meeting: IV August 27, 2011


The General Secretary reported in detail about the discussion held with the Honourable MIC (HE), Sri SugatoBose, Chairman of the Mentor Group of Presidency and Sri Abhirup Sarkar, Chairman, Expert Committee to HigherEducation, Govt. of West Bengal.

The meeting with MIC (HE) was held in an extremely cordial atmosphere and appeared to be fruitful andconvincing in all respects.

It was reported in the meeting that the Association had submitted a comprehensive list of the incumbentswilling to get their due transfer orders implemented at the earliest, the details of which is given in the enclosureto the letter, addressed to DPI.

The members present in the meeting reacted strongly to some of the transfer orders issued in the recentpast, including that of the General Secretary. It was resolved that the Association should express its strongresentment over such transfer orders to the authorities.

Members from different units raised a number of issues, viz., the need for a specific order on duty leaverelating to PhD course work, issuance of transfer order on a regular basis, the crisis on account of the gravevacancy position in teaching posts in General Degree colleges, Training colleges and the Colleges of PhysicalEducation. Incidentally, the colleges are lagging far behind the stipulation fixed up at the All India Level and forassessment of NAAC, it poses a real challenge for the colleges.

It was reported that except for two institutions, in all colleges, at least 80-85 percent of teachers have renewedtheir membership with the WBGCTA. Rest of the teachers will be requested to renew their membership beforethe 39th. Annual Conference. As per our Constitution, it was also decided that the question of membership of theteachers in the Administration, should be renewed with respect to the colleges he/she was attached to, beforejoining their present assignment.

The General Secretary reported the outcome of the Central Demonstration as ‘Dharna’ on 26th. August,New Delhi, and the meeting of the National Executive, AIFUCTO. Teachers from all the states gathered at Delhi on26th. Morning and raised the slogan relating to the demand-

1. Allocate 10% of GDP for Education2. Release Central Assistance for Pay Revision and State to ensure payment of their share.3. Fix uniform age of retirement at 65 years.4. Rectify pay revision anomalies on the basis of AIFUCTO recommendations5. Implement UGC Regulations on CAS and PhD prospectively and not retrospectively6. Withdraw Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) Bill7. Stop Commercialization and privatization of Education – withdraw the anti-student and anti-teacher

Bills on Higher Education.

In the meeting of the National Executive following resolutions were adopted:(i) Teachers’ Day should be observed as Demand Day.(ii) If 80% arrear is not released within December 2011, teachers at the all India level will be forced to

resort to Civil Disobedience movementThe meeting ended with the resolution of observing 5th. September, i.e.; Teachers’ Day, as a Demand Day.


SUB-COMMITTEE

Engineering and Technological Colleges


Two meetings of the Engineering and Technological Sub-Committee of WBGCTA, Kolkata were held on March26, 2011 and on April 09, 2011 after the new sub-committee took over responsibility.

It was reported that a letter has been handed over to the Director of Technical Education, Dept. of HigherEducation, Govt. of West Bengal on March 07, 2011 during a meeting with the Association representatives withthe Director. In the letter, a request was made to address different burning issues of the six Govt. Engineering andTechnological Colleges of West Bengal, including huge vacancy positions existing in all the six Govt. Colleges,inordinate delay in implementing CAS and advance increments for having higher qualifications, etc. It was alsoreported that no teaching posts have been sanctioned for the three M.Tech courses offered at Kalyani Govt.Engineering College, and the one at Govt. College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology, and that for the newB.Tech courses started at Govt. College of Engineering and Textile Technology, Berhampore. The necessary postsneed be created immediately.

Conducting a Workshop involving teachers of six Govt. Engineering and Technological Colleges of West Bengalwas felt to be a necessity, where the service matters of teachers and developmental issues of these colleges needto be discussed threadbare.

Implementation of the 6th Pay-scale, fixing of retirement age at 65 years, and release of pay arrears werealso demanded.

Regarding implementation of the TEQIP scheme, there were diverse opinions among the members, and noclear decision could be taken.

Library Sub-Committee Date: 12-11-2011


The participants expressed their concern at the alarming situation arising out of a large number of postsremaining vacant.

For a long time, five government colleges have been functioning without a single librarian. It was decidedthat the Association move the government for filling up the vacant posts immediately.

The government has remained silent on the question of status of librarians in government colleges, despiteour repeated demand. It is high time that the government comes out with a decision in favour of includinglibrarians in government colleges in the WBES cadre.

The members suggested that the government come out immediately with a uniform staff pattern on librariansin government colleges.

Timely and rational distribution of funds to the libraries is an urgent necessity for the all-round and uniformdevelopment of the government colleges. This demand must again be put forward to the government.

These problems have been highlighted time and again without any headway. It was decided that theAssociation again point out these problems and demand an early solution.

Press and Publication Sub-Committee Date: 12-11-2011

The contents of draft newsletter were reported and different proposals discussed. Finally, the said newsletterwas accepted for publication and it was decided that the necessary print order be issued immediately.

Further the sub committee endorsed the proof for publications of two books on Inclusive Education: ChallengesAhead in Higher Education and Stress Management in Modern Life- the outcome of Seminars and other inputs, ofthe 38th and 39th Annual Conference, respectively.

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10 January,2011

ToProf. Sudarshan RoyChoudhuryHon’ble Minister in ChargeHigher Education DepartmentBikash Bhavan, Salt Lake, Kolkata-700 091

Sub: Pending issues which need immediate personal intervention bythe MIC, Higher Education, Government of West Bengal

Sir

With deepest concern and extreme dismay I want to put forward the following issues, which have beencausing serious sense of marginalization among the Principals,Teachers,Llibrarians and Physical Instructors of theGovernment colleges, for your immediate attention:

1. It can be reminded that vide G.O.No. 1157-Edn(A)/5P-16 and 1156-Edn(A) /5P-16 dated 23.12.2009,the aforesaid incumbents were to draw 20% of their Arrear pay in three instalments to the quantum ofone third each for the financial years of 2009-10,2010-11 and 2011-12 respectively. The incumbents ofalmost all the colleges have duly received their dues against the First Instalment without much difficulty.However, when the bills for second instalment were placed for encashment, the following objectionswere met with :

“In the Higher Education Departrment’s Order No.1157-Edn(A) dated 23.12.2009 it was directedthat only 1st Instalment of the Arrear would be due for payment in January 2010. No direction is therefor the payment of the second instalment”It may be noted that this hurdle was posed a few months back and accordingly intimated to the DPI,WestBengal in our Letter dated 16th September 2010 for redress. Till date, however, no Government Orderhas been issued to pave the way for execution of that order although the financial year in question iscoming to an end.

2. The revised AICTE pay order for Teachers and Librarians of Government Engineering and Technologicalcolleges was issued after an inordinate delay on 26th July 2010 vide G.O.No.434-Edn(T)/(T)-10M-36/09.The anomalies in that order were pointed out and it took more than 6 weeks for issuance of a revisedorder to that effect vide G.O.no.518Edn(T)/(T)- 10M-36/09. No order, however has yet been issued infavour of the aforesaid colleagues to enable them to draw any arrear payment whatsoever, not eventhe one- third of the 20% that is being borne by the State Government for teachers in General Degreecolleges.

3. Some anomalous and discriminatory pay fixations have been allowed to remain unresolved for a longtime since the UGC Career Advancement Regulations of 2000 were introduced. Initially, all in-servicePh.D.Degree holders were considered for placement to the post and pay of Reader after completionof a total period of 9(nine) years of service. A number of teachers were benefitted accordingly. However,after a certain period, the Screening Committees formed for this purpose, decided to enforce arequirement of compulsory 5(five) years of service as Assistant Professor ,before any CAS applicationfor Readership could be considered.

This has caused an extremely undesirable situation for those who were awarded a Ph.D degree intheir capacity as Assistant Professors. For them the requirement of a total length of service were extendedto 11(eleven) years instead of 9 years. Thus, a large section of teachers with identical qualifications



continue to be treated differentially. We would urge upon you to extend the principle of equality in allsimilar cases and treat the cases of the deprived incumbents on a par with those who have received thebenefit of Career advancement after 9(nine) years of service.

4. The Government Order allowing Special Allowances for the Principals of the Government Colleges isdiscriminatory in nature. All Principals are selected through the WB Public Service Commission. It is byspecific Government Orders that some of them are serving at UG colleges whereas others are placed atPG colleges. They are frequently transferred from one college to another. Therefore it would be unjustto fix different quanta of special allowances for them depending on their place of posting. Hence, wewould like to request you to issue a revised order in this respect and oblige.

I shall be grateful to you if you please look into these matters earnestly and do the needful at an early date.

Thanking you,Yours faithfully

(Debasish Sarkar)General Secretary, WBGCTA

To 05 February, 2011Sri Buddhadeb BhattacharyaHon’ble Chief MinisterGovernment of West BengalWriters’ Building, Kolkata

Respected Sir,

We are honoured to inform you that the 39th Annual General Conference of our Association was held on22nd and 23rd January, 2011 at the Hastings campus of the Institute of Education for Women and the StateInstitute of Physical Education for Women at Alipore, Kolkata. You would be happy to learn that the Conferencegenerated great enthusiasm among our members and the event as a whole was a grand success. In view of the interactions that took place at the Conference and the resolutions adopted thereon, I take theopportunity to highlight the major issues addressed, as mentioned herebelow, for your kind perusal.

1. There is not an iota of doubt among our members that the severance of Presidency College from theWest Bengal Educational Service is a great loss to our service-cadre and to its glorious past. In addition,the transformation of Presidency College takes away from our service cadre 224 teaching posts including54 of the senior cadre, which, in effect, severely restricts chances of promotion of teachers and theirplacement on transfer to Kolkata colleges.

2. The members expressed their concern over the sectarian demands being raised by certain interestedgroups for change of status of other century-old renowned government colleges, like those of KrishnagarGovernment College and Hooghly Mohsin College. This was precisely one of the apprehensions we hadexpressed long back, that the transformation of Presidency College could lead to similar demands inother renowned government colleges as well.

We have already drawn your kind attention to the fact that Sri Tapas Pal, local MP, has alreadyengineered a move to transform Krishnagar Government College to a Deemed University. The Ministryof Human Resource Development, New Delhi, has fallen in line and is eager to see this collegerestructured in character. Also, several letters have been addressed to the Principal of KrishnagarGovernment College, urging him to take necessary steps in this regard. Several local conventions wereheld at Krishnagar, the last one on 2nd October, 2010, to champion this secessionist move. Similarmoves are on for quite some time now to alter the status of Hooghly Mohsin College as well. As lateas on 31st January 2011, at a Re-Union meeting of the college alumni, the eagerness to bud out fromWB Educational Service was reiterated.

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Photocopies of all documents on such sinister moves are appended in Annexure I of this letter.3. We firmly believe –

(a) that a government college should come up in Kolkata proper, with all the posts and subjects taughtin erstwhile Presidency College, and

(b) that in order to utilize and share the immense resources and potential of Government Colleges,an affiliating university be formed comprising all government colleges of the state. Such classified,affiliating universities already exist in our state, viz. West Bengal University of Technology andWest Bengal University of Health Sciences (photocopies of gazette notifications of these classifieduniversities appended as Annexure II & III for your kind and ready reference). The formation of aclassified state university with all the government colleges as its affiliate, would not only promoteacademic excellence, rejuvenate these premier government institutions, foster intellectual synergyamong the service cadre and reinvigorate the rich heritage of almost two-century old WBEducational Service, but would simultaneously arrest the fissiparous tendencies being witnessedtoday. At the same time, this would prevent thoughtless privatization and commoditization ofhigher education being promoted by the Union Ministry today. Defending public-funded educationis highest on the agenda of teachers’ associations at home and abroad.

Our members, both in-service and retired teachers and teacher-leaders, and our friends andcolleagues in the academia, including the AIFUCTO leadership, are all unanimous on this count. Intheir considered opinion, it is not only the best but also, sadly, the only option today, if thegovernment is to improve and protect its own colleges and prevent withering away of its ownEducation Service.

We do sincerely believe that the present government would initiate moves as appropriate, on an urgentbasis, and declare

● the formation of a government general degree college in the spacious Hastings Campus, Alipore,with all the 224 sanctioned teaching posts that were present in the erstwhile Presidency College,Kolkata, and

● the formation of a classified affiliating university comprising all government colleges of the state –our long-cherished dream – for which we have proposed the name ‘University of Bengal’.

We remain optimistic of a quick and positive response from this government on our proposals.

With regards,Yours sincerely


To 05 February, 2011Biman BoseChairman, Left FrontWest Bengal

Respected Comrade,

We are honoured to inform you that the 39th Annual General Conference of our Association was held on22nd and 23rd January, 2011 at the Hastings campus of the Institute of Education for Women and the StateInstitute of Physical Education for Women at Alipore, Kolkata.

You would be happy to learn that the Conference generated great enthusiasm among our members and theevent as a whole was a grand success.

In view of the interactions that took place at the Conference and the resolutions adopted thereon, I take theopportunity to highlight the major issues addressed, as mentioned here below, for your kind perusal.


1. There is not an iota of doubt among our members that the severance of Presidency College from theWest Bengal Educational Service is a great loss to our service-cadre and to its glorious past. In addition,the transformation of Presidency College takes away from our service cadre 224 teaching posts including54 of the senior cadre, which, in effect, severely restricts chances of promotion of teachers and theirplacement on transfer to Kolkata colleges.

2. The members expressed their concern over the sectarian demands being raised by certain interestedgroups for change of status of other century-old renowned government colleges, like those of KrishnagarGovernment College and Hooghly Mohsin College. This was precisely one of the apprehensions wehad expressed long back, that the transformation of Presidency College could lead to similar demandsin other renowned government colleges as well. We have already drawn your kind attention to the factthat Sri Tapas Pal, local MP, has already engineered a move to transform Krishnagar Government Collegeto a Deemed University. The Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi, has fallen in lineand is eager to see this college restructured in character. Also, several letters have been addressed tothe Principal of Krishnagar Government College, urging him to take necessary steps in this regard.Several local conventions were held at Krishnagar, the last one on 2nd October, 2010, to champion thissecessionist move. Similar moves are on for quite some time now to alter the status of Hooghly MohsinCollege as well. As late as on 31st January 2011, at a Re-Union meeting of the college alumni, theeagerness to bud out from WB Educational Service was reiterated Photocopies of all documents onsuch sinister moves are appended in Annexure I of this letter.

3. We firmly believe –(a) that a government college should come up in Kolkata proper, with all the posts and subjects taught

in erstwhile Presidency College, and(b) that in order to utilize and share the immense resources and potential of Government Colleges,

an affiliating university be formed comprising all government colleges of the state. Such classified, affiliating universities already exist in our state, viz. West Bengal University of

Technology and West Bengal University of Health Sciences (photocopies of gazette notificationsof these classified universities appended as Annexure II & III for your kind and ready reference).The formation of a classified state university with all the government colleges as its affiliate, wouldnot only promote academic excellence, rejuvenate these premier government institutions, fosterintellectual synergy among the service cadre and reinvigorate the rich heritage of almost two-century old WB Educational Service, but would simultaneously arrest the fissiparous tendenciesbeing witnessed today. At the same time, this would prevent thoughtless privatization andcommoditization of higher education being promoted by the Union Ministry today. Defendingpublic-funded education is highest on the agenda of teachers’ associations at home and abroad.

Our members, both in-service and retired teachers and teacher-leaders, and our friends andcolleagues in the academia including the AIFUCTO leadership, are all unanimous on this count. Intheir considered opinion, it is not only the best but also, sadly, the only option today, if thegovernment is to improve and protect its own colleges and prevent withering away of its ownEducation Service.

In our long experience with you, we are convinced and are proud to declare that the stateleadership has always honoured the voice of the mass and duly considered the opinion of massorganizations in shaping and implementing policy matters. We trust that the present stateleadership under your assiduous guidance would initiate moves as appropriate, on an urgent basis,so that the present government feels at one with the academic spirit of our opinions and demands,and declare at the earliest:● the formation of a government general degree college in the spacious Hastings Campus,

Alipore, with all the 224 sanctioned teaching posts that were present in the erstwhilePresidency College, Kolkata, and

● the formation of a classified affiliating university comprising all government colleges ofthe state – our long-cherished dream – for which we have proposed the name ‘Universityof Bengal’.

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We have appealed to our Hon’ble Chief Minister to this effect and hope that he will look into the matter. Wedo know that you share our sense of despair and therefore urge you to initiate moves to rekindle the hope of ourpresent teachers and revive keen interest among academics to join the West Bengal Educational Service.



ToProf. Sudarshan RoychoudhuryHon’ble Minister-in-Charge 11 February, 2011Department of Higher EducationGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700 091

Sir,You are aware that our 39th Annual General Conference was held on 22nd and 23rd January, 2011 in the

Hastings House campus of the Institute of Education for Women and the State Institute of Physical Education forWomen at Alipore, Kolkata. You would be happy to learn that the Conference generated immense enthusiasmamong our members and the event as a whole is perceived to be a grand success.On the basis of thorough discussions at the Conference and the resolutions adopted thereon, I take the opportunityto point out the major issues addressed, as mentioned here below, for your kind perusal.

1. The members remain convinced that the removal of Presidency College from the West Bengal EducationalService is a great loss to our service-cadre and to its glorious past. In addition, the transformation ofPresidency College involves a loss of 224 teaching posts including 54 belonging to the WBSES cadre,which, in effect, severely restricts the chances of promotion of teachers and their placement on transferto Kolkata colleges.

2. The members expressed their deep concern over the sectarian demands being raised by some interestedgroups for change of status of other century-old renowned government colleges, like those of KrishnagarGovernment College and Hooghly Mohsin College. This was precisely what we had apprehended longback, that transformation of Presidency College would inevitably cascade into similar demands in otherrenowned government colleges. We remember having drawn your kind attention to the fact that SriTapas Pal, local MP, has already engineered a move to transform Krishnagar Government College to aDeemed University. The Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi was quick to fall in lineand express its eagerness to transform this college into a university. You may also recall that severalletters have already been addressed to the Principal of Krishnagar Government College, urging him totake necessary steps in this regard. Several local conventions were also held at Krishnagar, the last oneon 2nd October, 2010, to champion this secessionist move. Hooghly Mohsin College has also beentargeted. As late as on 31st January 2011, at a Re-Union meeting of the college alumni, the eagerness tobud out from WB Educational Service by forming a University was reiterated.

Photocopies of all documents regarding this act of betrayal are appended in Annexure I of this letter.3. The members were unanimous —

(a) that a government college should come up in Kolkata proper, with all the posts and subjects taughtin the erstwhile Presidency College, and

(b) that in order to utilize and share the immense resources and potential of Government Colleges,an affiliating university be formed comprising all government colleges of the state.

Such classified, affiliating universities already exist in our state, viz. West Bengal University of Technologyand West Bengal University of Health Sciences (photocopies of gazette notifications of these classified universitiesappended as Annexure II & III for your kind and ready reference). The formation of a classified state university


with all the government colleges as its affiliates, would not only promote academic excellence, rejuvenate thesepremier government institutions, foster intellectual synergy among the service cadre and reinvigorate the richheritage of the almost two-century old WB Educational Service, but would simultaneously arrest the fissiparoustendencies being witnessed today. At the same time, this should prevent thoughtless privatization and of highereducation being promoted by the Union Ministry today. You are quite aware that defense of public-fundededucation is highest on the agenda of teachers’ associations, at home and abroad. Our members, both in-service and retired teachers, teacher-leaders, our friends and colleagues in the academia,including the AIFUCTO leadership, remain unanimous on this count. In their considered opinion, forming a classified,affiliating, state university comprising all government colleges in the state is not only the best but also, the onlyoption today, if the government is to improve and protect its own colleges from the hoopla of one-upmanshipand prevent withering away of its own Education Service.

We sincerely believe that the present government would initiate moves as appropriate, on an urgent basis,and declare:

● the formation of a government general degree college in the spacious Hastings Campus, Alipore,with all the 224 sanctioned teaching posts that were present in the erstwhile Presidency College,Kolkata, and

● the formation of a classified affiliating university comprising all government colleges of the state –our unanimous, decade-long demand – for which we have proposed the name ‘University of Bengal’.

Considering the historical role of government colleges and the WB Educational Service in fostering public-funded education in the state, we look forward, with a sense of urgency, to your sympathetic consideration of ourproposals,



To 11 February, 2011Professor Subimal SenChairmanWest Bengal State Council of Higher EducationKolkata 700 029

Sir,

We thank you heartily for being with us at our 39th Annual General Conference on 23rd January, 2011 in theHastings House campus of the Institute of Education for Women and the State Institute of Physical Education forWomen, Alipore, Kolkata, despite your prior engagements. We take the opportunity to share with you our immensehappiness at the event turning out to be a grand success, with a massive turnout followed by keen and intensedeliberations at the Business Session.

It is our duty to place on record the major issues addressed at the Conference in the way of thoroughdiscussions and the resolutions adopted.

1. The members remain convinced that the removal of Presidency College from West Bengal EducationalService is an unprecedented mishap, after which the almost two-century old Education Service cannever ever be the same again – not to speak of its days of glory and its role in dispensing the bestpublic-funded education to all sections of society. In addition, the transformation of Presidency Collegeinvolves a loss of 224 teaching posts including 54 belonging to the WBSES cadre. This, in effect, severelyrestricts all chances of promotion of teachers and their placement, on transfer, to Kolkata colleges.

2. The members expressed their anguish over the sectarian demands being raised by certain interestedgroups for change of status of other century-old renowned government colleges, like those of KrishnagarGovernment College and Hooghly Mohsin College, precisely as we had apprehended long back. Even

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then we were taken aback at the alacrity with which the inglorious precedence of transformation ofPresidency College started to take its toll. You may be aware that Sri Tapas Pal, local MP, has alreadyengineered a move to transform Krishnagar Government College to a Deemed University. The Ministryof Human Resource Development, New Delhi, has fallen in line and is keen to see this college transformedinto a deemed university. Also, several letters have been addressed to the Principal of KrishnagarGovernment College, urging him to take necessary steps in this regard. Several local conventions werealso held at Krishnagar, the last one in October, 2010, to champion this secessionist move. You may alsobe aware that similar moves are on for quite some time now to alter the status of Hooghly MohsinCollege as well. As late as on 31st January 2011, at a Re-Union meeting of the college alumni, theeagerness to bud out from WB Educational Service to form a University was reiterated. Photocopies ofall documents on these sinister moves are appended in Annexure I of this letter.

3. We firmly believe that –(a) a government college should come up in Kolkata proper, with all the posts and subjects taught in

erstwhile Presidency College, and(b) in order to utilize and share the immense resources and potential of Government Colleges, an

affiliating university be formed comprising all government colleges of the state. Such classified,affiliating universities already exist in our state, viz. West Bengal University of Technology andWest Bengal University of Health Sciences (photocopies of gazette notifications of these classifieduniversities appended as Annexure II & III for your kind and ready reference). The formation of aclassified state university with all the government colleges as its affiliate, would not only promoteacademic excellence, rejuvenate these premier government institutions, foster intellectual synergyamong the service cadre and reinvigorate the rich heritage of almost two-century old WBEducational Service, but would simultaneously arrest the fissiparous tendencies being witnessedtoday. At the same time, this should prevent thoughtless privatization and commoditization ofhigher education being promoted by the Union Ministry today. Defending public-funded educationis highest on the agenda of teachers’ associations at home and abroad.

Our members, both in-service and retired teachers, teacher-leaders, our friends and colleagues in theacademia, including the AIFUCTO leadership, are all unanimous on this count. In their considered opinion, it isnot only the best but also, sadly, the only option today, if the government is to improve and protect its owncolleges and prevent withering away of its own Education Service. We do sincerely believe that the presentgovernment would initiate moves as appropriate, on an urgent basis, and declare:

● the formation of a government general degree college in the spacious Hastings Campus, Alipore,with all the 224 sanctioned teaching posts that of the erstwhile Presidency College, Kolkata, and

● the formation of a classified affiliating university comprising all government colleges of the state –our long-cherished dream – for which we have proposed the name ‘University of Bengal’.

We seek your counsel and help on our demands in the interest of restoring primacy to quality public- fundededucation. We do hope you will appreciate the need for urgent and immediate steps on these matters.




To 23 February, 2011Shri Satish Ch. TewaryPrincipal Secretary,Higher Education DepartmentGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt LakeKolkata-700 091

Subject : Issues required being resolved urgently.

Sir,

With deepest concern, we are to bring forward some issues which are to be resolved immediately. Weunderstand that you would appreciate the gravity of the situation that has necessitated this letter. Interests of alarge number of teachers are being ignored for a very long period of time. We would like to put forward theissues for your consideration:

1. It can be reminded that vide G.O.No. 1157-Edn(A)/5P-16 and 1156-Edn(A) /5P-16 dated 23.12.2009,the aforesaid incumbents were to draw 20% of their Arrear pay in three instalments to the quantum ofone third each for the financial years of 2009-10,2010-11 and 2011-12 respectively. The incumbents ofalmost all the colleges have duly received their dues against the First Instalment without much difficulty.However, when the bills for second instalment were placed for encashment to the following objectionswere met with :

“In the Higher Education Department’s Order No.1157-Edn(A) dated 23.12.2009 it was directedthat only 1st Instalment of the Arrear would be due for payment in January 2010. No direction is therefor the payment of the second instalment”.

It may be noted that this hurdle was posed a few months back and accordingly intimated to theauthority for redress. Till date, however, no Government Order has been issued to pave the way forexecution of that order although the financial year in question is coming to an end.

2. The revised AICTE pay order for Teachers and Librarians of Government Engineering and Technologicalcolleges was issued after an inordinate delay on 26th July 2010 vide G.O.No.434-Edn(T)/(T)-10M-36/09.The anomalies in that order were pointed out and it took more than 6 weeks for issuance of a revisedorder to that effect vide G.O.no.518Edn(T)/(T)- 10M-36/09. No order, however has yet been issued infavour of the aforesaid colleagues to enable them to draw any arrear payment whatsoever, not eventhe one- third of the 20% that is being borne by the State Government for teachers in General Degreecolleges.

3. The incumbents with Ph. D / M. Phil have enjoyed their career advancement after completing 9 / 10years of service in the feeder cadre from the 1996 pay award. But in recent times the same practicewas not followed. We strongly urge that parity be maintained on this question for the same category ofteachers and that the necessary Govt. order be issued accordingly.

4. The Government Order allowing Special Allowances for the Principals of the Government Colleges isdiscriminatory in nature. All Principals are selected through the WB Public Service Commission. It is byspecific Government Orders that some of them are serving at UG colleges whereas others are placed atPG colleges. Therefore it would be unjust to fix different quanta of special allowances for them dependingon their place of posting. Hence, we would like to request you to issue a revised order allowing Rs.3000/- per month as special allowance in this respect.

5. Our long standing demand has been that the Librarians in Government Colleges be placed in the WBESCadre. It is high time that the Government Issue necessary orders to this effect.

6. Payment of 80% arrears towards UGC Pay Award 2006 is long overdue and teachers continue to feeldeprived of their legitimate claim for which they have already rendered their services. The question ofthe age of superannuation at 65 years remains unresolved. We demand that the Government mustcome out with necessary orders to justify the contentions put forward by the UGC in their guidelines.

7. A large number of teachers in Government Colleges have completed their respective tenures in the

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feeder cadre. Unless the CAS regulations are issued immediately, they will continue to stagnate for aconsiderable period of time. We demand issuance of the CAS regulations without any further delay.

8. The recruitment rules for appointment of teachers in Government Colleges have not yet been published.With a huge overload of at least 40% vacant posts, this issue has to be resolved immediately in publicinterest.

We have already placed all the above stated issues to your kind office earlier. We are reiterating the sameonce again for action as necessary, from your end.

Thanking you.Yours truly


To 07 March, 2011The Director of Technical EducationHigher Education DepartmentGovt. of West BengalBikash Bhavan,10th Floor, Salt Lake- 700091.

Sub: Request for addressing the burning issues of Govt. Engineering and Technological Colleges

Sir,First, I should thank you and others concerned for taking steps for issuing a GO. No. 85-Edn(T) dated 28/2/

2011 regarding release of 20% arrears payment. Further, I would like to draw your kind attention to the followingburning issues related to six Govt. Engineering and Technological Colleges under your control for addressing thesame at the earliest.

i) Regarding filling up of vacancy positions: To fill up the vacant faculty and technical support staff,immediate steps need be taken. Formation of new recruitment qualification, designation, and normsare required to undertake at the earliest.

Huge deficit of teaching and technical support staff prevailing in the six colleges is listed below

Name of the college Sanctioned Sanctioned technical Existing number Existing technicalfaculty posts support staff of faculty support staff

JGEC, Jalpaiguri 92 55 37 20KGEC,Kalyani 85 40 50 18GCETT, Serampore 57 54 34 25GCETT, Berhampore 26 17 16 00GCECT, Beliaghata, Kolkata. 58 16 32 00GCELT, Kolkata 38 09 27 07

TOTAL 356 199 196 70

ii) Implementation of Career Advancement Scheme: Appropriate steps are needed to implement CareerAdvancement Scheme (CAS) in the revised scheme. The norm of implementing pay scale starting fromRs.37,400/- need be formulated suitably. The system of implementation of CAS should be made fast,and uniform procedure need be followed for all teachers under the Higher Education Department.

iii) Confirmation Related Issue: The process for confirmation of faculty members takes inordinate delay.This should be expedited,

iv) Creation of posts:a) No faculty posts are created in a number of courses, such as MTech courses in KGEC, Kalyani in

Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering and Production


Engineering, newly introduced BTech courses in Govt. College of Engineering and TextileTechnology, Berhampore, etc. Without creation of such posts it becomes quite difficult to run thecourses.

b) Even though intake of students have been increased considerably in all the six Govt. Engineeringand Technological Colleges, enhancement in the number of sanctioned technical support staff(including library staff) is not undertaken. There should be a detailed survey on the requirementof such technical support staff and library staff following the recommendation of theAICTE guidelines, and considering the need for smooth running of the laboratory in respectivecolleges.

v) Advance Increment: At present, there is an inordinate delay in granting advance increments tothe incumbents possessing MTech, MPhil and PhD degrees at the time of joining due to processingof the file at the office of the DTE even though there is clear directive to grant such benefits to theincumbents in relevant GO. This needs to be addressed immediately. In-service teachers eligibleto get such benefits should also obtain the same immediately. The college authorities should beallowed to grant the same for quick disbursal of the same.

vi) Principal’s Allowance: The allowance admissible to the Principal is not also awarded due to certainproblems. This also needs be solved immediately.

vii) Office Staff Regarding: In a number of colleges, a large number of vacancies exist in staff positionsin the college office, and this needs to be filled-in urgently.

viii) Space Crisis: Acute space problem exists in a number of these colleges. To obtain approval fromthe AICTE regarding different UG and PG courses run in these colleges, AICTE-prescribed built-upspace need to be created at the earliest.

Hope you will take appropriate necessary steps to address the above-mentioned points.

Thanking you,

Yours sincerely,Debasish SarkarGeneral Secretary, WBGCTA

To 20 April, 2011Shri Satish Ch. TewaryThe Principal SecretaryHigher Education DepartmentGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt LakeKolkata-700 091

Sir,We do express our thankfulness at your initiatives in resolving the issue of pending arrear payments of the

Principals, Teachers, Librarians, Physical Instructors in WBSES and WBES( copy enclose). At your behest, thesecond installment of the said arrears was released at the fag end of the last financial year, and the teachers of allthe Government Colleges, except those in the erstwhile Presidency College, have already received payment.

To avoid recurrence of any such exigency in this year, we would urge you to take necessary efforts to issue anorder pertaining to the payment of the third and final installment of the arrears in question ( copy enclosed). Weare confident that at your initiatives the process will begin at the beginning of 2011-12 and teachers would not befacing the kind of uncertainties that surfaced in the terminal parts of the last financial year. Unfortunately, theincumbents at erstwhile Presidency College were not paid this component of arrears as there had been no allocationof fund to process the payment. This has to addressed at the earliest and the hardship of these incumbentsshould be resolved without any further delay.

It will not be out of context to record our thankfulness at your efforts in resolving the identical issues thatinvolve the teachers in Government Engineering and Technological colleges. The order pertaining to the paymentof arrears of these incumbents (copy enclosed) enabled them to draw the first installment of the State’s share,

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i.e 20% of the total arrears, in 2010-11 only, unlike the general college teachers who had no problem in gettingthe first installment in 2009-10. We would again urge you to take necessary efforts, so that, the GovernmentEngineering and Technological College teachers are able to draw the second and third installments of the saidarrears in 2011-12 itself. The number of such teachers in state is not more than 150 and ideally they should notbe asked to draw a deferred payment of the third installment in 2012-13 instead of 2011-12.An order allowingthem to draw two installments in this financial year is solicited.

We sincerely hope that we would continue to receive all the encouragement and co-operation from yourend.

Thanking youYours faithfully


Encl.1. G.O. No. 1157/1158-Edn(A)/5P-16/2009PtI dated 23.12.20092. G.O.No. 85-Edn(T)/10M-36/09 dated 28.02.2011

To 31 May, 2011Smt. Mamata BanerjeeHon’ble Chief Minister,Government of West BengalWriters’ Buildings, Kolkata 700 001

Subject : Request for an appointment to meet our representatives.

Respected Madam,We congratulate you on forming the new government in the state and extend our best and sincere wishes on

this occasion. It is also our solemn pledge that we will continue to strive hard to maintain excellence in teachingand research in all the government colleges of the state.

It is our earnest request and hope that you will find some time for a meeting with us to discuss some broadpolicy matters pertaining to government colleges in the state.

We are looking forward to an opportunity of meeting you at your earliest.With thanks and warm regards


To 31 May, 2011Smt. Mamata BanerjeeHon’ble Chief Minister,Government of West BengalWriters’ Buildings, Kolkata 700 001

Respected Madam,

At the outset, we take the opportunity of congratulating you on forming the new government in the state.On this occasion, we pledge to rededicate ourselves in maintaining excellence in teaching and research in thepremier government colleges of the state.


In fact, since inception way back in 1967, our Association which represents all categories of teachers ingovernment degree colleges, training and physical education colleges, art college and government engineering& technological colleges (recruited by the W.B. Public Service Commission), is the primary service association ofWest Bengal Educational Service (WBES) and West Bengal Senior Educational Service (WBSES) cadre. You areaware that our service cadre has a glorious history in Bengal Renaissance for almost two centuries, first as IndianEducation Service, thereafter Bengal Education Service and now West Bengal Educational Service. Numerousstalwarts, who have done the nation proud, are products of government colleges in West Bengal. Many governmentcolleges are heritage institutions with world-wide acclaim. All government colleges in the city or in the districts,including erstwhile Presidency College, have maintained the highest standards in teaching and learning, even tothis day, and often under trying circumstances. Mindful of this legacy, our Association strives to make governmentcolleges excel in all branches of higher education, in sync with the changed world scenario, as the main bulwarkin public - funded education. We are sure, that with your help and cooperation, the government colleges in thestate can make a significant contribution in ushering a new era, in restoring the erstwhile glory of Bengal.We have some concrete suggestions on how this dream can be realized. We were engaged in innumerablediscussions and prolonged debates for almost a decade, on the issue of restoring the primacy of governmentcolleges in the higher education scenario of the state. We present our proposal below in brief, for your perusaland kind consideration.

I. Proposal for a state university clustering all government colleges in the state.

With very little added expenditure, the 37 existing government colleges with their stupendous resourcesand assets can be clustered together and transformed into campuses of a new, classified, affiliating University,for which we have proposed the name ‘University of Bengal.’ This will ensure uniformity of standard for allgovernment colleges across the state. Such state universities exist in different countries. Even our own statefollows this model: the University of Health Sciences and the West Bengal University of Technology thataffiliates all medical colleges and engineering colleges respectively, situated at different corners of our state.

The detailed proposal on University of Bengal is given in our Newsletter (September 2010) enclosed.

II. A new government degree college at Hastings House campus, Alipore, Kolkata.

No new government college was established in Kolkata after the independence. In addition to the existingsix government general degree colleges namely, erstwhile Presidency College, Maulana Azad College ,LadyBrabourne College, Bethune College, Sanskrit College and Goenka College of Commerece and BusinessAdministration, a new government college should be established within the city of Kolkata to augment theneed of accessibility of a huge number of poor and meritorious students to public funded education. Wetake this opportunity to propose that the government take initiative to set up a new government degreecollege in the sprawling Hastings House campus in Alipore, Kolkata.

III. The Presidency episode.

A move which has created a lot of controversy is the transformation of Presidency College to a unitaryuniversity with undue haste, towards the end of the tenure of the previous government. We expressed ourstrong resentment at the manner in which the previous government rushed through the Bill and did not findit necessary to discuss the issue with its service cadre members as the primary stake-holder. All our pleas tobe allowed to present our views on this issue, were dismissed with contempt. Our Association was forced totake to the streets. A massive rally to Vidhan Sabha was organized. We presented our memorandum to theHon’ble Governor and the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.

We always maintained that Presidency College has earned its indelible position in Educational History ofIndia through competition and excellence in an affiliated mode of teaching-learning and evaluation. The nationcan hardly afford the obliteration of an iconic, two- centuries old institution like Presidency College.

It is our earnest request that your government explore all possible ways, if needed, to amend the Act, torestore Presidency College to its glorious past as a government college – and no harm done if it is affiliated tothe newly formed Presidency University

We are confident that you will give a sympathetic consideration to our views and find some time for ameeting with us on such broad policy matters.

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We will extend all possible co-operations in any of your moves to brighten the face of education in our state.

With thanks and heartiest regards,Yours sincerely


To 31 May, 2011Prof. Bratya BasuHon’ble Minister in ChargeDepartment of Higher EducationGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt LakeKolkata-700091

Sir,

We are all the more happy to have a Government College alumnus at the helm of affairs and believe that theproblems which are plaguing these institutions, would be addressed by your good office, in the larger interest ofhigher education in our state.

Our Association comprise of Principals, Professors, Teachers, Librarians and Physical Instructors of all theGovernment General Degree colleges, Government Teachers’ Training colleges, Government Engineering andTechnological Colleges and the Government Art College of West Bengal. You are aware that the members, barringthe Librarians, belong to a cadre-based service: West Bengal Educational Service and West Bengal SeniorEducational Service. The service, however, follows a legacy which is two centuries old and the incumbents,irrespective of their cadre, position and place of posting, are chosen by West Bengal Public Service Commission.Many teachers who taught in these colleges were pioneers in their own fields and are architects of modern India.Even today, amidst many constraints, teachers continue to strive hard to bring out the best out of their studentsand themselves. This is substantiated by the results of the Government college students across the state and thenumber of successful students in NET/SET/GATE/JAM/JEST and all other All India Examinations. The number andquality of research and publications of the teachers would speak for their endeavour and it is for their inputs, thatseveral government colleges are now recognized by UGC as Colleges with Potential for Excellence. We believe,with proper care and planning all the government colleges can usher in similar glory for themselves. The conceptof a service could best be viewed in equitable development in all these institutions by the way of resource andknowledge sharing.

It would not be out of place if we take this opportunity to put forward some of the issues which needed to beaddressed long back. We are hopeful that the new government would exhibit a newer outlook vis-a vis thenecessity and importance of Government Colleges in the scenario of Higher Education in Bengal.

Academic Issues

1. With 36 government colleges in place and with engineering, technological, teachers’ training and artcolleges in its fold, it is only natural that the Government should think of a University of its own. Forthe last decade we have been demanding a classified state university. We proposed it to be named‘University of Bengal’ and suggested that all the Government colleges be upgraded to Post-Graduatecolleges and function as affiliated colleges of the proposed university. This will entail little additionalexpenditure but the benefits will be alike for students of all the city and district government colleges.We have worked out a roadmap for this transition and would be obliged to place the same before you.

2. We always maintained that Presidency College has earned its indelible position in Educational Historyof India through competition and excellence in an affiliated mode of teaching-learning and evaluation.The haste with which its transformation was sought, belied all logic and our repeated plea to theGovernment at that time was not given any heed whatsoever. As an alumnus, you would surely


understand the pain with which we all have to fathom the obliteration of an icon of Bengal Renaissancecalled Presidency College. We would earnestly request you to look into the possibilities of retainingthe entity ‘Presidency College” as a premier government college of our country.

3. No new government college was established in Kolkata after the independence. In addition to theexisting six government general degree colleges namely, erstwhile Presidency College, Maulana AzadCollege, Lady Brabourne College, Bethune College, Sanskrit College and Goenka College of Commereceand Business Administration, a new government college should be established within the city of Kolkatato augment the need of accessibility of a huge number of poor and meritorious students to publicfunded education. We take this opportunity to propose that the government take initiative to set upa new government degree college in the sprawling Hastings House campus in Alipore, Kolkata.

4. The number of vacant posts in all types of government colleges is alarming. In the beginning of thisyear, among 1698 sanctioned teaching posts in general degree colleges, approximately 451 were vacant.In teachers’ training colleges, 59 out of 127 posts and in physical education colleges 24 out of 49 postsare vacant. In Engineering and Technological colleges out of 356 sanctioned teaching posts, 160 arevacant and 121 posts of technical support staff are lying vacant out of a total of 191 sanctioned posts.In Government Art College out of 55 sanctioned posts 22 are vacant. Out of 36 government colleges inthe state, the post of Principal is lying vacant in 17 colleges. For years, there has been no recruitment ofLibrarians and as such, 37 out of 68 sanctioned posts are vacant. This necessitates immediate publicationof new recruitment norms followed by a recruitment drive to fill in the posts in question.

Service related Issues

1. Neither the recruitment rules for appointment, nor the regulations related to Career AdvancementScheme (CAS), have been published. A large number of teachers in Government Colleges have completedtheir respective tenures in the feeder cadre and with no CAS regulations in place; they continue tostagnate for a considerable period of time. In the interest of higher education in general, the relevantGovernment Orders should be issued without any further delay.

2. Payment of 80% of the quantum of arrears towards UGC Pay Award 2006 has not been made to theteachers of this state. Service has already been rendered by the teachers for the period for which thispayment is due. We look forward to the new government to alleviate the grievances of the teachers.

The 20% of arrears vis-a vis UGC pay awards 2006 , which is deemed to be the State’s share, isbeing paid in three instalments over three financial years starting from 2009-10. We would urge you totake necessary efforts to issue an order pertaining to the payment of the third and final installment ofthe arrears in question.

Unfortunately, the incumbents at erstwhile Presidency College were not paid the second installmentof this component of arrears.

We would again urge you to take necessary efforts, so that, the Government Engineering andTechnological College teachers are able to draw the second and third installments of the said arrears in2011-12 itself. The number of such teachers in state is not more than 150 and ideally they should notbe asked to draw a deferred payment of the third installment in 2012-13 instead of 2011-12.

3. The question of the age of superannuation at 65 years remains unresolved. In view of stringentqualification norms, age of entry into the service, enhancement of the gross enrolment ratio (GER) andinnate ability to contribute at the intellectual level beyond the age of 60 years, the increase of thesuperannuation age was proposed by the MHRD. The issue should be viewed in this perspective andthese arguments should be the guidelines to resolve the issue.

4. There had been serious confusions in UGC 1996 CAS implementation of the in- service Ph. D / M. Phildegree holders in our state. For a period, teachers who had completed 9 / 10 years of service in thefeeder cadre were considered for second promotion in career advancement scheme and they continueto enjoy the concurrent benefits. However, the practice was suddenly stopped and the necessity forfive years of compulsory service preceding the second promotion was sought. This belies the logic ofequality and justice. We believe that the new government would look into these cases and resolve thisissue to the satisfaction of all.

5. Our Association has been consistently demanding for a long period for the inclusion of Govt.collegelibrarians in the existing WBES. The arguments in favour of our demand is Annexed herewith for yourkind perusal.

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Stated above, are some of the points which need to be addressed to prevent marginalization of aservice which in its own humble way is contributing to nation building. We are hopeful that under yourguidance we would be able to put our best foot forward in the interest of the people of Bengal.

Thanking you.Yours truly


Annexure-I

Proposal for inclusion of Librarians of Government Colleges (General Degree Colleges, including Training& Physical education Colleges) of the State in the WBES (West Bengal Education Service).

1. The MHRD Notifications and UGC Guidelines have categorically placed college librarians as ‘equivalent’to teaching cadre.

2. The Mehrohtra Committee of UGC had stated categorically that college librarians should be awardedequal benefits and accorded equal status as teachers.

3. Librarians of Govt. colleges are recruited through the PSC like the teachers. Minimum entry-levelqualifications, CAS and Pay Scales are similar in all respects to the teachers, i.e., as per UGC guidelines.

4. Moreover, there is precedence of employees in State Services who belong to the WBES despite havingservice conditions which are entirely different from that of college teachers. Some are enumerated:i) Head Masters of Govt. School, D.I. of Schools, Deputy & Assistant Directors of Physical Education,

District Officer of Physical Education & Youth Welfare, Education Officer, etc.ii) Assistant Director of Mass education, District Social education Officer.iii) Superintendent of Govt. College of Art & Craft.

5. The Principals, Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors, & Librarians of Govt. EngineeringColleges of the State belong to WBGS.

6. Regarding the issue of college librarians having once belonged to the West Bengal Subordinate EducationService (WBSES), that issue is no longer valid as the pay scales of college librarians have been made atper with teachers since 1981 following UGC guidelines. This all the more justifies that their service maybe included in WBES.

7. Presently there are 31 librarians, out of total number of 68 posts, in Govt. colleges and all of them wererecruited with UGC stipulated entry level qualifications.

8. Besides, librarians need to be the members of Teachers’ Council on an equal footing as teachers. Theirvoting rights are being denied by their being ‘invitee’ members of the T.C. Even they have no right to bethe representative of the Governing Body of College. Their dignity is being assaulted in every respect ina daily basis, which is most detrimental to the academic atmosphere.

9. In the recent case of West Bengal College Librarians’ Association vs. the Govt. of West Bengal, theCalcutta High Court has ruled that college librarians ( in this case of non-govt. colleges) be given exactlythe same benefits as college teachers and all anomalies in the service conditions be removed.

10. The PSC has no objection in bringing Librarians in WBES as the Draft ’Recruitment rules of Govt. Collegelibrarians in WBES’ vide this Deptt’s Letter No. 1337-Edn(A)/10M-24/01(Pt) dated 21.12.2007 hasbeen vetted earlier with some modifications by PSC, W.B. vide its letter No. 38 P.S.C. (S&R)/iR-26/88dated 20.03.2007

11. The proposal of this Department for creating a separate State Service for librarians of GovernmentColleges of the State has been denied by the 5th Pay Commission. Hence, the inclusion of librarians inWBES is proposed.

12. The Govt. College Teachers’ Association has been consistently demanding for a long period for theinclusion of Govt. College librarians in the existing WBES.

It follows the justification for Govt. college librarians to be included in WBES. This will create no financialburden on Govt. exchequer.


To 31 May, 2011Prof. Bratya BasuHon’ble Minister in Charge,Department of Higher EducationGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt LakeKolkata - 700091

Subject: Request for an appointment to meet our representatives.

Respected Sir,

We congratulate you on being sworn in as the Higher Education Minister of the state and extend our bestand sincere wishes on this occasion. It is also our solemn pledge that we will continue to strive hard to maintainexcellence in teaching and research in all the government colleges of the state.

It is our earnest request and hope that you will find some time for a meeting with us to discuss some broadpolicy matters pertaining to government colleges in the state.

We are looking forward to an opportunity of meeting you at your earliest.

With thanks and warm regards

Yours sincerely,(Debasish Sarkar)General Secretary, WBGCTA

To 15 July, 2011The Director of Public Instruction,Department of Higher Education,Government of West Bengal,Bikash Bhavan, Salt LakeKolkata-700091

Subject : Submission of List of Teachers Seeking Transfer

Sir,I am submitting herewith a list of teachers of different Govt. Colleges of the State, who have completed their

stay at their respective colleges as per the existing policy and practice of the Government with regard to transfer.I have also mentioned here with the name/s of the college/s they served and their preferences of future posting.

I am requesting you to consider their cases sympathetically and include their names at the time of issuanceof forthcoming order of transfer.

Thanking youYours faithfully,


Enclo: List of Teachers Seeking Transfer

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To Dated 24 July, 2011Prof. Sugata BoseChairman, The Mentor Group for Presidency University

Subject : A submission on the affairs of Presidency UniversitySir,

At the outset, we would like to congratulate you for being given the onerous responsibility of giving shape tothe nations’ dream, with the erstwhile Presidency College.

Ours is the oldest organization of Government College teachers who belong to the West Bengal EducationService and the West Bengal Senior Education Service cadre. Many teachers in our cadre are alumni of thisinstitution but are presently posted in other government colleges in the state. Many others have taught atPresidency College for a long period and are fully aware of the strength and weaknesses of the college. Therefore,as natural stakeholders in erstwhile Presidency College, we are keen to put forward our views in a nutshell, on theevents leading to its transformation and its likely reverberations, in the days to come.

The transformation of the College to a unitary university was carried out with undue haste, towards the endof the tenure of the previous government, without appropriate deliberations on its pros and cons and the likelyconsequences. An unprecedented and irreversible change in the status of a world-famous government college ina tearing hurry was uncalled for. At that time, we expressed our strong resentment at the manner in which theprevious government rushed through the Bill. They did not even find it necessary to discuss the issue with itsservice cadre members as the primary stake-holder. All our pleas to be allowed to present our views on this issuewere dismissed with contempt. Our Association was forced to take to the streets.

Today, with the transformation and contours of development of this institution under your scanner, there isground for optimism. We look forward to restoration of this institution to its former glory under your ablestewardship and advice of Prof. Amartya Sen. At the same time, we would like to point out humbly, that theformer glory of Presidency College was attained primarily through excellence in teaching and scholarship at theundergraduate level; and not without the sustained effort of teachers who belonged to the almost two-centuryold educational service cadre. As an alumnus of a government college, you are of-course aware that HooghlyMohsin College, Krishnagar Govt. College, Bethune College, Sanskrit College, Maulana Azad College et al , werean integral part of the educational service cadre and constituted the ‘whole’ of which Presidency College was apart. By delinking Presidency College from its roots one would be risking the dynamism which has become thehallmark of the service as a whole. The nation can ill-afford the obliteration of an iconic, two-century old institutionlike Presidency College.

It is our earnest plea that as the Chairman of the mentor group, you explore all possible ways, to restorePresidency College to its life-sustaining roots. The Act, nonetheless, provides for retaining its status as aGovernment College – and no harm done if it is affiliated as a one-off college to the newly formed PresidencyUniversity.

We are open to suggestions and shall continue to extend all possible co-operations to any move by thegovernment that seeks to restore the days of glory of higher education in the state, and of the governmentcolleges in particular.

With warm regards


To 02 August, 2011Prof. Satya Sundar BarmanGeneral SecretaryAll Bengal State Government College Teachers’ Association210 Bipin Behari Ganguly Street, Kolkata – 700 012

Dear Prof. Barman,

You will perhaps agree, there is much common ground among both our Associations for more than twodecades, in the question of service matters, on problems plaguing our service cadre and on all-round development

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of government colleges in the state. Over the years, both the Associations have fought for upholding the rightsand dignity of government college teachers and for arresting the gradual marginalization of our service in general.

With these and many other agenda common to us, we feel it would be appropriate if we could find a commonplatform where we could share our views and evolve a common agenda in the days to come.

Under the circumstances, we would request your leadership to explore the possibility of whether the executivecommittees of both the associations can sit together to find out ways in achieving our common goals.

Thanking you,Yours truly


To 03 August, 20111. Prof. Sunanda Sanyal

ChairmanExpert Committee On Higher EducationWest Bengal

2. Professor Abhirup Sarkar 04 November, 2011Chairman, Expert Committee on Higher Education, West Bengal.

Sir,

You are well aware that government colleges have always occupied a premier position in higher education inthe state. Our service cadre too, enjoys a glorious history in Bengal Renaissance for almost two centuries, first asIndian Education Service, thereafter Bengal Education Service and now West Bengal Educational Service. In fact,all government colleges in the city or in the districts, including erstwhile Presidency College, have strived tomaintain the highest standards in teaching and learning, even to this day, and often under trying circumstances.

We have always tried to ensure that Government colleges maintain the highest standards in teaching andlearning in government colleges as the main bulwark in public - funded education in the state. Of late, certaindevelopments portend to destroy the basic fabric of these prestigious government colleges. With deep concern,we appeal to your good office for timely intervention and advice to stem the rot, so that government colleges canweather the storm and our educational service cadre continues to attract the best teachers.

We could sense for quite some time that the government colleges in the state have lost some of their sheenand often failed to attract and retain the best talents in the government colleges, owing to a variety of reasons.However, even against great odds and a general disinclination of good students toward general education, thegovernment colleges have maintained their standards, whether in the city or in the districts. No less than sixgovernment colleges have been declared by the UGC as Centres with Potential for Excellence. But we refuse torest on our laurels.

We were engaged in innumerable discussions and prolonged debates for almost a decade, on the issue ofrestoring the primacy of government colleges in the higher education scenario of the state. We now realize thatsomething needs to be done and immediately. With great expectations from the present government, we putforward our proposal below in brief, for your kind consideration.

I. Proposal for a state university clustering all government colleges in the state.

With very little added expenditure, the 36 existing government colleges with their stupendous resourcesand assets can be clustered together and transformed into different campuses of a new, classified, affiliatingUniversity, for which we have tentatively proposed the name ‘University of Bengal.’ This will ensure optimalutilization and sharing of resources in different ways, including networking, formation of consortia, advancedcentres and schools of higher studies in different branches, while ensuring uniformity of standards for all


government colleges across the state. At the same time, this will ensure academic autonomy and transparencywithout sacrificing accountability and credibility.Virtually all teachers of government colleges including those of degree colleges, government engineeringand technological colleges, physical education and training colleges, government art college, have shownrare unanimity on this count. Such state universities exist in different countries. Even our own state followsthis model: all medical colleges and engineering colleges, situated at different corners of our state, areaffiliated to the West Bengal University of Health Sciences and West Bengal University of Technologyrespectively.We have prepared a road-map on the proposed University of Bengal which is given in our Newsletter(September 2010) enclosed.

II. A new government degree college at Hastings House campus, Alipore, Kolkata.

No new government college was established in Kolkata after independence. In addition to the existing sixgovernment general degree colleges namely, erstwhile Presidency College, Maulana Azad College, LadyBrabourne College, Bethune College, Sanskrit College and Goenka College of Commerece and BusinessAdministration, a new government college should be established within the city of Kolkata to enhanceaccess for of a huge number of poor and meritorious students to the best public-funded education that onlygovernment colleges are capable of. We take this opportunity to propose that the government take initiativeto set up a new government degree college in the sprawling Hastings House campus in Alipore, Kolkata.

III. The Presidency episode.

A move which has created a lot of controversy is the transformation of Presidency College to a unitaryuniversity with undue haste, towards the end of the tenure of the previous government. We expressed ourstrong resentment at the manner in which the previous government rushed through the Bill and did noteven find it necessary to discuss the issue with its service cadre members, as the primary stake-holder. Allour pleas to be allowed to present our views on this issue were dismissed with contempt. Our Associationwas forced to take to the streets. A massive rally to Vidhan Sabha was organized. We had to present ourmemorandum to the Hon’ble Governor and to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. We cried hoarse fora right to be heard, organized conventions, sit-in demonstrations and dharnas, but were greeted with astony silence from the previous government. We refused to relent, because ‘Presidency College’, as one ofthe pillars of Bengal Renaissance, was about to be wiped out from the pages of Indian history.We have always maintained that Presidency College has earned its indelible position in Educational Historythrough excellence in teaching, primarily at the undergraduate level, out-of-the-box thinking, vibranticonoclasm tempered with competition and excellence in an affiliated mode of teaching-learning andevaluation. The nation can hardly afford the obliteration of an iconic, two-century old institution likePresidency College. Even with epitaph of the college inscribed, would it be impossible to retrieve Presidency,as a government college? Sir, you must be aware that Presidency College, Chennai, was sought to be turnedinto an unitary university only a couple of years back, but with public outcry and sustained democraticprotests the Tamil Nadu government had to withdraw the Bill.

It is our fervent plea that the present government explore all possible ways, to restore Presidency Collegeas a government college, the provision for which already exists in the Act, and affiliate it to the newlyformed Presidency University.

We are confident that you will give a sympathetic consideration to our views and find some time for ameeting with us on such broad policy matters.

With thanks and heartiest regards,Yours sincerely


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To 04.11.2011Prof. Abhirup SarkarChairmanExpert Committee on Higher EducationWest Bengal

Sir,On behalf of our service Association, I take the opportunity to respectfully place before yourself major

problems that need to be sorted out and resolved at the earliest.

Academic:

1. A total of 451 sanctioned posts out of a total of 1698 posts are lying vacant in general degree colleges.Many colleges have introduced post-graduate courses without sufficient number of teachers, adequatespace, library and laboratory facilities. Even under such constraints, teachers also manage to carry outresearch work. The government should appoint separate office staff for Post-Graduate departments tofacilitate their functioning.Today, out of a total of 68 posts of librarians in government colleges 37 are lying vacant. Four collegeshave no librarians at all. In fact, for one full decade, there has been no recruitment of librarians ingovernment colleges. At the Govt. College of Physical Education for Women, Dinhata, even the post oflibrarian has not been created since its inception in 1985.The condition of Government Teachers’ Training Colleges is abysmal. Our repeated pleas about acuteshortage of teaching and non-teaching staff in these colleges have apparently fallen on deaf ears. Manydepartments are being run with a single teacher or no teacher at all. Out of a total of 127 sanctionedposts 59 are still vacant. Some subject combinations cannot be offered due to lack of teachers. Suchlackadaisical approach towards these premier B.Ed. colleges would only promote self-financing teachers’training colleges in the state.In the physical education colleges, 24 out of 49 sanctioned posts are still vacant. They are set to loserecognition of NCTE if the vacant posts of teachers and principal are not filled up immediately. Thesubject ‘Physical Education’ should also be introduced as an elective subject in different governmentcolleges.The Government Engineering and Technological Colleges are the forbearers of a glorious tradition.Sadly enough, these institutions are not being properly cared for. More than 50% of teaching posts arelyingvacant. Moreover, there has not been any appointment to the posts of Technical Assistants/Laboratory Assistants for a long time. As such, more than 80% of these posts are vacant today. Immediateredressal of this situation requires earnest effort on the part of all concerned.Government College of Art and Craft is another example of apathy and neglect. Very few institutions inIndia can match its rich heritage. It is shocking to note that out of 55 sanctioned posts, 22 posts, includingthose of Principal, Vice-Principal and Registrar are vacant here. The government can ill afford any blindeye to such a treasure of an institution.

2. Academic autonomy need to be extended for the PG courses under different Universities of the stateand for M. Ed course under the University of Calcutta.

3. On the question of implementing TEQIP-II in Government Engineering and Technological Colleges, weexpress our deep concern and observe that a detailed discussion need to be carried with the stakeholders at different levels on an urgent basis, pending which status quo ante need to be maintained.

Service conditions :

4. Effective and balanced implementation of departmental promotion from WBES to WBSES. After aninordinate delay, the orders for Departmental promotion to WBSES for two subjects have been issuedrecently. While welcoming this positive move, we would like to see the competent authorities speed-up the process for all the remaining subjects.

5. Uniform pattern / design for Ph.D Course work and issuance of appropriate Government Order (similarto that of Refresher Course / Orientation Programme) for the same.


6. It is extremely urgent to take necessary measures for speedy and time bound disposal of all pendingCAS cases of all the incumbents (under the old regulation) following the UGC and AICTE regulations.

7. There had been serious confusions in UGC 1996 CAS implementation of the in- service Ph. D / M. Phildegree holders in our state. For a period, teachers who had completed 9 / 10 years of service in thefeeder cadre were considered for second promotion in career advancement scheme and they continueto enjoy the concurrent benefits. However, the practice was suddenly stopped and the necessity forfive years of compulsory service preceding the second promotion was sought. This belies the logic ofequality and justice. We believe that the new government would look into these cases and resolve thisissue to the satisfaction of all.

8. The revised UGC and pay-scale 2006 has been implemented in our state but the issuance of appropriatecorresponding orders in our state, on the payment of allowances, age of superannuation, award ofpromotions, payment of retirement benefits etc, remains an urgent necessity.

9. The order on Special allowance for the Principals of the Government Colleges in the state, uniformly atthe rate of Rs 3000/-, need to be issued without further delay because the corresponding order forstate aided non Government Colleges and erstwhile sponsored colleges have already been issued longback on 17th February 2011 vide GO No 162- Edn (CS) / 5P- 52/98.

10. Uniform and balanced distribution of development grants (State Plan / Non-Plan) to different Govtcolleges.

11. A copy of the Government Order related to Government colleges may kindly be sent to the DTE, WB.12. Our Association has been consistently demanding for a long period for the inclusion of Govt.college

librarians in the existing WBES. The arguments in favour of our demand is Annexed herewith for yourkind perusal.

13. Payment of 80% of the quantum of arrears towards UGC and AICTE Pay Award 2006 has not been madeto the teachers of this state. Service has already been rendered by the teachers for the period for whichthis payment is due. We look forward to the new government to alleviate the grievances of the teachers.The 20% of arrears vis-a vis UGC and AICTE pay awards 2006 , which is deemed to be the State’sshare, is being paid in three instalments over three financial years starting from 2009-10. We wouldurge you to take necessary efforts to issue an order pertaining to the payment of the third and finalinstallment of the arrears in question.

14. The question of the age of superannuation at 65 years remains unresolved. In view of stringentqualification norms, the late age of entry into the service, enhancement of the gross enrolment ratio(GER) and innate ability to contribute at the intellectual level beyond the age of 60 years, the increaseof the superannuation age was proposed by the MHRD need to be implemented.

15. Regular and timely issuance of transfer orders without discrimination remains a necessity. A review ofthe existing transfer policy and necessity for reframing of the of this policy, need to be taken up withreal earnest.

Non-teaching Staff :

16. No institution can function properly unless it has adequate number of non-teaching personnel.Surprisingly, the Government, as yet, has failed to come up with a uniform staff pattern. A large numberof existing posts are vacant. In this context, filling-up of existing vacant non-teaching posts (group C &group D) in different colleges need to be taken up soon.

Creation of non-teaching posts in Government colleges has not been undertaken for a long time duringwhich significant expansion has taken place in different institutions. Therefore this lacuna needs to be filled upsoon.

With thanks and heartiest regards,

Yours sincerely

Debasish SarkarGeneral Secretary, WBGCTA

CORRESPONDENCE 43

Annexure-I

Proposal for inclusion of Librarians of Government Colleges (General Degree Colleges, including Training& Physical education Colleges) of the State in the WBES (West Bengal Education Service).

1. The MHRD Notifications and UGC Guidelines have categorically placed college librarians as ‘equivalent’to teaching cadre. The Govt. of W.B. too has clarified this stand in various orders. In spite of that theyare being denied some benefits as extended to teachers, since they are not included to State Service.

2. The Mehrohtra Committee of UGC had stated categorically that college librarians should be awardedequal benefits and accorded equal status as teachers.

3. Librarians of Govt. colleges are recruited through the PSC like teachers. Minimum entry-levelqualifications, CAS and Pay Scales are similar in all respects to the teachers, i.e., as per UGC guidelines.

4. Moreover, there is precedence of employees in State Services who belong to the WBES despite havingservice conditions which are entirely different from that of college teachers. Some are enumerated:i) Head Masters of Govt. School, D.I. of Schools, Deputy & Assistant Directors of Physical Education,

District Officer of Physical Education & Youth Welfare, Education Officer, etc.ii) Assistant Director of Mass education, District Social education Officer.iii) Superintendent of Govt. College of Art & Craft.

5. The Principals, Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors, & Librarians of Govt. EngineeringColleges of the State belong to WBGS.

6. Regarding the issue of college librarians having once belonged to the West Bengal Subordinate EducationService (WBSES), that issue is no longer valid as the pay scales of college librarians have been made atper with teachers since 1981 following UGC guidelines. This all the more justifies that their service maybe included in WBES.

7. Presently there are 31 librarians, out of total number of 68 posts, in Govt. colleges and all of them wererecruited with UGC stipulated entry level qualifications.

8. Besides, librarians need to be the members of Teachers’ Council on an equal footing as teachers. Theirvoting rights are being denied by their being ‘invitee’ members of the T.C. Even they have no right to bethe representative of the Governing Body of College. Their dignity is being assaulted in every respect ina daily basis, which is most detrimental to the academic atmosphere.

9. In the recent case of West Bengal College Librarians’ Association vs. the Govt. of West Bengal, theCalcutta High Court has ruled that college librarians ( in this case of non-govt. colleges) be given exactlythe same benefits as college teachers and all anomalies in the service conditions be removed.

10. The PSC has no objection in bringing Librarians in WBES as the Draft ’Recruitment rules of Govt. Collegelibrarians in WBES’ vide this Deptt’s Letter No. 1337-Edn(A)/10M-24/01(Pt) dated 21.12.2007 hasbeen vetted earlier with some modifications by PSC, W.B. vide its letter No. 38 P.S.C. (S&R)/iR-26/88dated 20.03.2007

11. The proposal of this Department for creating a separate State Service for librarians of GovernmentColleges of the State has been denied by the 5th Pay Commission. Hence, the inclusion of librarians inWBES is proposed.

12. The Govt. College Teachers’ Association has been consistently demanding for a long period for theinclusion of Govt. College librarians in the existing WBES.

It follows the justification for Govt. college librarians to be included in WBES. This will create no financialburden on Govt. exchequer.


The General SecretaryWest Bengal Government College Teachers’ Association

Member-SecretaryWest Bengal State Council of Higher Education

CORRESPONDENCE 45

To 11 November, 2011Prof. Subrata GhoshMember Secretary,West Bengal State Council of Higher Education,147A, Rashbehari Avenue, Kolkata-700 029

Reference : MS-College.org/217/SCHE/2011, dated 04.11.2011

Dear Sir,

We feel happy and honoured to have received from your esteemed office, the letter cited above, inviting ourobservations, suggestions and comments on the terms of reference under discussion, to ensure ‘developmentand progressive reforms in the college education system in West Bengal’. Our Association represents the principals,teachers, librarians and physical Instructors of Government Colleges of the state.

At the outset we would like to draw your kind attention to the following facts:i) There are a total of 36 Government Colleges comprising of 18 General Degree Colleges, 7 Teachers’

Training Colleges, 6 Engineering and Technological Colleges, 4 Physical Education Colleges and 1 Collegeof Art and Craft, situated in Kolkata and different districts of the state. Many of these are century-oldand are recognized as premier institutes of Higher Education in India.

ii) A total of 63 subjects including law and foreign languages, are being taught in different Governmentcolleges and about 1700 teachers are engaged in teaching –learning process in these institutions. Almostall the government colleges are engaged in Post-Graduate teaching in one or more subjects, includingMBA, and some of these execute M.Phil and Ph.D programmes.

iii) Barring Teachers’ Training and Physical Education Colleges, almost all government colleges have alreadybeen accredited with honour, by the NAAC / NBA. Among these, no less than seven have been declaredas Colleges with Potential for Excellence (CPE) by the UGC.

iv) All these institutions are run and controlled by the Government of West Bengal. The entire expenditureis borne by the state government and the service conditions of both teaching and non-teaching staffare governed by the West Bengal Service Rules. Academic excellence and Inclusive education for studentsfrom every section of society at minimum expense had always been the key feature of these institutions.

v) All members of the teaching staff are assessed through the existing norms of Self –Appraisal on a dailybasis, in addition to Annual Confidential Report, Special Confidential Report and declaration of theirassets each year. Moreover, all incumbents are to follow the Government Orders issued from time totime, following the guidelines prescribed by the UGC/AICTE/NCTE.

We heartily welcome any move that is deemed beneficial for education in general.

ITEM - I

On the criteria I (a) to (e) set forth on the proposed appraisal system for college teachers, we would like tosuggest a relative weightage among the sub classes, as indicated in your letter, on a 100-point scale;

Sl. No. Criteria Relative Weightage

1 Teaching and Learning 602 Extra Time Spent for Students beyond Scheduled Classes 053 Involvement in Examination, Invigilation and Evaluation Activities 204 Involvement in General Administration and Student Activities 055 Academic Self Development and Contribution to the Respective Subject Fields 10

TOTAL 100


We feel that the scores allotted need to be explained.i. The general academic ambience of a college is fundamentally reflected in the activities in serial nos. 1

and 3. In addition, these two activities are most easily quantifiable in terms of the ratio of number ofduties performed vis-a-vis the number of duties assigned.

ii. In relation to serial nos. 2 and 4, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that our existing dailyappraisal report incorporates the actual time of arrival and departure. Any such data would reveal theinvolvement of a teacher with these activities in addition to the time spent in the class room. Participationin different college committees help rendered in the general administration of the college and interactionwith the students are deemed to be the measurable components in these two items.

iii. Attainments relating to serial no. 5, could be judged on the basis of publications both in internationaland national Journals, authorship / editorship / contribution in books / conference volumes, invitedtalk / paper presentation in symposia, conference etc. , participation in Refresher Course / OrientationProgrammes / Summer School / Winter School / Workshop / Specific Training Programmes, etc. Emphasisshould be given on carrying out research work and guiding dissertation work and doctoral thesis relatingto PG / M Phil / Ph D programmes, respectively.

ITEM - II

While considering the criteria mentioned in your letter, we would request you to take into account theimbalance that exists between the government colleges, in funding and infrastructure. We would like to submitthe following, in order to evolve a proper guideline based on equity and sustenance.

I. Academic Development

Most of the Government Colleges have already been accredited by NAAC and some departments ofEngineering and Technological colleges by NBA. There exists a comprehensive data base in every such college inline with Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) guidelines as prescribed by NAAC / NBA. This guideline could befollowed in every college, to determine / quantify their academic development.

In this context we would like to bring to your notice that-a. A total of 451 sanctioned posts out of a total of 1698 posts are lying vacant in government degree

colleges. Many such colleges have introduced post-graduate courses without sufficient number ofteachers, adequate space and library and laboratory facilities.

b. Today, out of a total of 68 posts of librarians in government colleges 37 are lying vacant. Four collegeshave no librarians at all. In fact, for one full decade, there has been no recruitment of librarians ingovernment colleges. At the Govt. College of Physical Education for Women, Dinhata, even the post ofLibrarian has not been created, since its inception in 1985.

c. The condition of Government Teachers’ Training Colleges is abysmal. Out of a total of 127 sanctionedposts 59 are still vacant. Such lackadaisical approach towards these premier B.Ed. colleges would onlypromote self-financing teachers’ training colleges in the state.

d. In the government physical education colleges, 24 out of 49 sanctioned posts are still vacant. They areset to lose recognition of NCTE if the vacant posts of teachers and principal are not filled up immediately.The subject ‘Physical Education’ should also be introduced as an elective subject in different governmentcolleges.

e. The Government Engineering and Technological Colleges are the forbearers of a glorious tradition.Sadly enough, these institutions are not being properly cared for. A total of 160 teaching posts out of356 and 126 out of 196 posts of technical support staff (Technical Assistants/Laboratory Assistants) arelying vacant in these colleges.

f. Government College of Art and Craft is another example of apathy and neglect. Very few institutions inIndia can match its rich heritage. It is shocking to note that out of 55 sanctioned posts, 22 posts, includingthose of Principal, Vice-Principal and Registrar are vacant here.

g. Academic autonomy is enjoyed by the PG departments of the colleges affiliated to the University ofCalcutta and the West Bengal State University, excepting the M. Ed course under CU. We feel that suchautonomy should be extended to the colleges with PG courses under different Universities of the state.

h. On the question of implementing TEQIP-II in Government Engineering and Technological Colleges, weexpress our deep concern and observe that a detailed discussion need to be carried out with the stake-holders at different levels on an urgent basis, pending which status quo ante need to be maintained.

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Academic development in its true spirit in government colleges should be looked into in the context of theseburning issues. A healthy teacher-student ratio needs to be maintained. The stated problems should be addressedwith utmost carefulness in order to devise any measurable standard for these colleges.

In addition, all the government colleges should provide for the following for equitable and sustainableinfrastructural development-

i. Adequate number of class roomsii. Modern laboratory facility and well equipped computer laboratoryiii. A Central Examination Halliv. An auditorium for seminar / conferencev. A Central Library building with digitized library facilities having internet connectivity and institutional

membership for access to on-line journals.

II. Governance and General Administration

The government colleges are administered by the WBSR along with Government Orders issued from time totime. In addition, all colleges are to follow UGC / AICTE / NCTE guidelines. In order to streamline and upgrade theadministration of the college office, full-fledged computerization is extremely urgent. A post of a care-taker maybe created for maintenance of premises, buildings, library, laboratories and other assets of government colleges.

Some specific areas such as granting permission and sanctioning leave to attend Ph.D course work, seminar,conference, workshop, RC, OP and other academic activities could easily be identified where the college principalscan be delegated authority.

III. Financial Discipline

As we all know, Government colleges obtain regular grants from the government under two heads, viz. Planand Non-Plan and the funds are processed through Govt. Treasuries / Pay and Accounts office. Regular GovernmentAudit is carried out in these colleges. In addition, colleges receive grants from UGC/AICTE/DBT/DST and otherfunding agencies, for which submission of utilization certificate and audited report to the agencies is a compulsion.

To improve the financial management, creation of a post of Accounts Officer may be considered. It is hightime that the upper ceiling of the financial powers of the government college principals be increased.

IV.Welfare Activities

Government colleges were established to impart Inclusive and quality education for every section of thesociety. Admission for SC/ST students follows government norms and provisions already exist to offer financialsupport to SC/ST/BC students and those from minority communities.

However some specific measures need to be taken earnestly to bring more and more of such students fromdisadvantaged sections of society, to these institutions. Some steps in this regard, which can be implementedwithout much difficulty and can be used to quantify progress in ‘welfare activities’, are suggested below:

a. Creating hostel facilities for both boy and girl students;b. Sanctioning posts of Superintendant/ Matron in all such hostels and recruitment of hostel staff;c. Creating subsidized canteen and cheap store in all colleges;d. Creating concessional transport facility for all poor students.e. Book bank facilities.f. Placement/Guidance/Grievance redressal cell.g. Creating adequate number of scholarship/free-studentship.

While thanking you again for inviting our suggestions, we would look forward to a thorough discussion withyour esteemed office on different issues relating to the all-round development of all government colleges in thestate.

With warm regards

Debasish SarkarGeneral Secretary, WBGCTA


GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGALEDUCATION DEPARTMENT

APPTT. BRANCH.

No. 1970-Edn(A)2P-137/69 Dated Calcutta, the 29th May, 1969

From :- Shri J. C. Sengupta, I.A.S.,Secretary to the Govt. of West Bengal.

To:- The Director Public Instruction, West Bengal

The undersigned is directed to say that the question of framing rules relating to the transfer of teachers ofGovernment Colleges has been carefully considered by Government. It is noticed that places of posting in NorthBengal are generally considered to be bad places, while postings in or near about Calcutta are considered to begood postings. Good postings also include postings in colleges having courses in Honours subjects comparativelygreater facilities for teaching and research.

Government has now decided that the following principles be followed in regard to postings and transfers ofteachers of Government Colleges.

Government Colleges will be categorized into four groups according to regions viz., North, South, Centreand Calcutta together to form another unit. On his first appointment a teacher may be asked to indicate hispreference as to where he likes to be posted towards the end of his service career. The teacher concerned will beposted at his place of preference only after he puts in service in other regions. A teacher should ordinarily continueto serve a college for four years and unless there be anything extra-ordinary he will not be transferred earlier norwill he be forced to remain there for a longer period. For this purpose a history of service will be maintained forteacher.

A teacher serving in a mofussil college in any other regions, North and South, should not be transferred if heexpresses a desire to continue at that station provided his transfer is not necessiated on administrative grounds.

Generally orders of transfer will be passed at the end of the year, but when exigencies of service so requiretransfer will have to be made even during the year.

Sd/- IllegibleSecretary.


APPTT. BRANCH

No. 4188-Edn.(A) Calcutta, the 26th November, 1970 a. 51-2/70

From : Sri J. C. Sengupta, I.A.S.,Secretary to the Govt. of West Bengal.

To : The Director of Public Instruction, West Bengal.Sub : Composition and functions of Teachers’ Council in Govt. Colleges.Ref : His U.O. No. 1352 dated the 15th July, 1970.

The undersigned is directed, by order of the Governor to say-that the Governor has been pleased to frame

GOVERNMENT ORDER 49

a set of rules for the composition and functions of Teachers’ Council in Govt. Colleges as detailed below :

1. In every Government College there shall be a Teachers’ Council. All teachers including thePrincipal of the College shall be members of the council.

Explanation : (1) ‘Teacher’ means a person, who imparts tutorial, theoretical and/or practicalinstructions to students in class room, laboratory and in .the field of physical education.(ii) ‘Teacher’ so defined shall include any person appointed in a college on temporary andsubstantive basis.

2. In every Teachers’ Council, the Principal of the College concerned shall be the Chairman. At a meetingof a Teachers’ Council, in the absence of the Chairman(s), the person in charge of the college., if present,shall act as Chairman and (b) when the person in charge of the College is also absent, the memberpresent shall elect one of their members to act as Chairman.

3. In every Teachers’ Council, there shall be a Secretary, who shall be a teacher of the college concerned,not being the Principal or Vice-Principal and shall be elected in accordance with the provisions hereinaftercontained.

4. At the commencement of every academic year, the Principal of every college shall convene a meetingof Teachers, Council thereof, after giving at least 7 days notice to the members specifying therein thedate, time and place of the meeting for the purpose of electing the Secretary of the Council.

5. At the meeting concerned under paragraph 4, the members of the Teachers’ Council shall elect byballot, one of its members ‘Not Being the Principal or Vice Principal’, to act as its Secretary. The termof the Secretary of the Teachers’ Council shall be one year from the date of his/her election and shallinclude any period that may elapse between the expiry of the said period of on year andthe election of his successor.

6. (i) Meeting of a Teachers’ Council shall be convened by the Secretary or, in his absence, by the Chairman,of the Council, on such states and at such times and places as may be determined by the Chairman,after giving at least three days notice thereof, to the members. In cases of urgency the Chairman mayconvene meetings at shorter notice. A meeting shall also be convened on requisition in writing by atleast one-third of the total number of members of the Council and the date, time and place forsuch meetings shall be fixed by the Chairman and notified through the Secretary, to the members inthe matter referred to above.

(ii) Agenda for meetings of a Teachers’ Council shall be prepared by the Secretary in consultation with theChairman.

(iii) Secretary of a Teachers’ Council shall prepare and maintain in his custody minutes of all meeting of theCouncil.

(iv) For a meeting of Teachers’ Council, one-third of the total number of members of the Council to thenearest whole number shall be a quorum.

7 (i). Functions and duties of every Teachers’ Council shall be to advise the Principal of the college concernedon all academic matters including students’ welfare and discipline, arrangement of timetable, conductof examinations (including University Examination) improvement of the library, laboratories and teachingfacilities in the college.

(ii) The Principal shall normally act in accordance with the decisions arrived at the meetings of the Teachers’Council. However, if the Principal is unable to concur with a decision taken by the Teachers’ Council, heshall formally ask the Teachers’ Council to re-consider its decision. The resolution, if again passed by amajority of the total number of members of the Teachers’ Council, in a meeting of Teachers’ Councilcalled specially for consideration of its earlier decision it shall be referred by the Principal to the Directorof Public instruction, for his decision.

Sd/-J. C. Sengupta,Secretary.



APPTT. BRANCH.

G.O. No. 319(3) Edn (A) Dated 9. 8. 82

Guidelines on position and transfer of teachers of Government Colleges

(1) Government Colleges should be classified into 4 zones on the basis of their distance from ‘Calcutta andfrom the point of view of their accessibility —

Zone - IGovernment Colleges in Calcutta including the Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur (for non- engineeringteaching posts only)

Zone - IIGovernment Colleges in Chinsurah, Chandannagore and Barasat.

Zone - IIIGovernment Colleges in Durgapur, Jhargram, Taki and Krishnagar

Zone - IVGovernment Colleges in Darjeeling, Cooh Behar and Jalpaiguri Engineering College (for non- engineering

teaching posts only) and other districts in North Bengal (for teachers Training Colleges).

(2) All teacher of Government Colleges should generally serve in each zone and should not normally betransferred to another College in the same zone unless he has served in at least one college in all thefour zones. A teacher should normally serve a college for a term of 4 to 5 years excepting the NorthBengal Colleges where the term of stay of a teacher should normally be 3 years.

(3) While making transfers the following criteria will generally be taken into consideration :—(a) duration of posting at a particular college;(b) requirement of specialised qualifications;(c) academic record and reputation of the teacher;(d) report of the Principal, if any;(e) personal matters like age, state of health, agreement in research etc.;(f) climate of the locality(g) date of retirement.

(4) Because of the pre-eminence of Presidency College, Calcutta, due care will have to be taken beforetransfer of a teacher from or to Presidency college. Similarly, teachers of two womens’ Colleges inCalcutta viz. Lady Brabourne College and Bethune College, need not be transferred in a routine mannerfrom one college to another but may be transferred in the existing of circumstances and administrativeneed.

Copy of the Guidelines

(5) Women teachers serving in co-educational Colleges should also not normally be transferred to anycolleges in zone (III) and (IV) and those teachers may be transferred in exceptional circumstances evenbefore their serving the normal term of 4 to 5 years in one college.

GOVERNMENT ORDER 51

(6) Teachers of Government Colleges on attainting the age of 56 years may be given on option for transferto any college of their choice, but if this is not possible, they may be posted to a station nearest to thatof their choice.

(7) General order of transfer will be passed at the end of the calendar year but when exigencies of serviceso require transfers will have to be ordered at any time of the year.

Sd/- B. S. Guha.Education Commissioner & Secretary

GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGALDEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

APPOINTMENT BRANCHBIKASH BHAVAN, SALT LAKE

KOLKATA - 700 091.

No. 1157-Edn(A)/5P-16/2009 Pt.l Dated, Kolkata, the 23rd December, 2009.

From : Shri Satish Chandra Tewary, IAS,Principal Secretary to the Government of West Bengal.

To : Director of Public Instruction, Government of West Bengal.

Sub : Payment of 20% of Arrears in connection with Revision of Pay Structure under the UGC Pay RevisionScheme of the Teachers, Librarians and Equivalent cadres of the Govt. Colleges.

In continuation to this Department’s G.O. No. 865-Edn(A) dt. 28.08.2009, the Governor has been pleased todecide the following modalities regarding the payment of arrears for the period from 01.01.2006 - 31.3.2009payable to the Teachers, Librarians and Equivalent Cadres of the Govt. Colleges.

20% of the arrear payable for the period from 01.01.2006 - 31.03.2009 will be paid in three equal instalmentsas shown below :

i) 1st Instalment - in the year 2009-10ii) 2nd Instalment - in the year 2010-11iii) 3rd Instalment - in the year 2011-12

Such instalments in the year 2009-10 will be due for payment from 01.01.2010.

Decision regarding payment of the balance 80% of the arrears would be considered separately and notifiedin due course after interactions with and obtaining suitable inputs from Governmnt of India.

This issues with the concurrence of Finance Department, Government of We$£ Bengal vide their U.O. No.Group - P (Pay) 3240 dt. 15.12.09.

Sd/-Pricipal Secretary

No. 1157/l(15)-Edn(A)/5P-16/2009 Pt.l Dated, Kolkata, the 23rd December, 2009.

Copy alongwith the copies of annexure forwarded to the :1) Accountant General (A&E), West Bengal.2) Finance Department, Group P(Pay) of this Government.3) Finance (Group’B’) Department of this Govt.


4) Pay & Accounts Officer-l, 81/2/2, Phears Lane, Kolkata -12.5) Pay & Accounts Officer-II, P-l, Hyde Lane, Kolkata - 73.6) Director of Treasury, Stephen House, 4, B.B,.D. Bag (East), Kolkata -1.7) Budget Branch of this Department, Kolkata.8) University Branch of this Deptt.9) P.S. to Hon’ble Minister-in-Charge, Higher Education Department, Govt. of West Bengal.10) Director of Technical Education, Govt. of West Bengal.11) Technical Branch of this Deptt.12) C.S. Branch of this Deptt.13) P.A. to Principal Secretary, H.E. Department, Govt. of West Bengal.14) Computer Cell of this Deptt.15) Guard File.

Sd/-Joint Secretary.

No : 2/1(2) Admn Date 7.1.2010

Copy forwarded to the(i) Pay & Account officer I(ii) Principal, Goenka College of Commerce & B. A. Kolkata and other Govt. Colleges for Information and

necessary action.

DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAPPOINTMENT BRANCH

BIKASH BHAVAN, SALT LAKEKOLKATA - 700 091

No. 1158-Edn(A)/5P-16/2009 Pt.l Dated, Kolkata, the 23rd December, 2009.

From : Shri Satish Chandra Tewary, IAS,Principal Secretary to the Government of West Bengal.

To : Director of Public Instruction, Government of West Bengal.

Sub : Payment of 20% of Arrears in connection with Revision of Pay Structureunder the UGC Pay Revision Scheme of the Physical Instructors/Instructresses of Govt. Colleges.

In continuation to this Department’s G.O. No. 865-Edn(A) dt. 28.08,2009, the Governor has been pleased todecide the following modalities regarding the payment of arrears for the period from 01.01.2006 - 31.3.2009payable to the Physical Instructors/Instructresses of Govt. Colleges.

20% of the arrear payable for the period from 01.01.2006 - 31.03.2009 will be paid in three equal annualinstalments as shown below :

i) 1st Instalment - in the year 2009-10ii) 2nd Instalment - in the year 2010-11

iii) 3rd Instalment - in the year 2011-12

Such instalments in the year 2009-10 will be due for payment from 01.01.2010.Decision regarding payment of the balance 80% of the arrears would be considered separately and notified

in due course after interactions with and obtaining suitable inputs from Governmnt of India.

GOVERNMENT ORDER 53

This issues with the concurrence of F inance Department, Government of West Bengalvide their U.O. No. Group - P (Pay) 3240 dt. 15.12.09.

Sd/-Principal Secretary.

No. 1158/l(15)-Edn(A)/5P-16/2009 Pt.l Dated, Kolkata, the 23rd December, 2009.

Copy for information and necessary action to the :1) Accountant General (A&E), West Bengal.2) Finance Department, Group P(Pay) of this Government.3) Finance (Group’B’) Department of this Govt.4) Pay & Accounts Officer-l, 81/2/2, Phears Lane, Kolkata - 12.5) Pay & Accounts Officer II, P-l, Hyde Lane, Kolkata - 73.6) Director of Treasury, Stephen House, 4, B.B,.D. Bag (East), Kolkata -1.7) Budget Branch of this Department, Kolkata.8) University Branch of this Deptt.9) P.S. to Hon’ble Mmister-tn-Charge, Higher Education Department, Govt. of West Bengal.10) Director of Technical Education, Govt. of West Bengal.11) Technical Branch of this Deptt.12) C.S. Branch of this Deptt.13) P.A. to Principal Secretary, H.E. Department, Govt. of West Bengal.14) Computer Cell of this Deptt.

GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGALHIGHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT


KOLKATA - 91

No. 88-Edn.(A)/5P-116/09 Dated, Kolkata, the 18th February, 2010.

MEMORANDUM

Consequent on implementation of revised pay structure under the UGG Pay revision scheme in terms of thisDepartment’s Memo No.864-Edn.(A) dated 28-08-09 and 865-Edn.(A) dated 28-8-09, references are being receivedin this Department seeking clarification as regards to the re-desighation of teachers and equivalent grades of theState Government Colleges subsequent to revision “of their pay and also seeking guidelines in regards toapplicability of Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) in the light of draft UGC Regulations. On Universities AndColleges And Measures For The Maintenance Of Standards. In Higher Education, 2009 uploaded in the website ofthe U.G.C., which have not yet been notified

After careful consideration of the matters, following points are clarified for information and guidance of allconcerned.

i) Re-designation of teachers and equivalent grades subsequent to revision of their pay will be as perstipulations of MHRD’s Order No. 1-32/2006- U.II/UI(i) dated 31st December, 2008.

ii) All promotions/CAS related matters relating to the period upto 28-08-09 to be processed followingextant UGC regulations. Such cases arising after 28-08-09 will be kept pending for the time being. If anyaction has been taken in some cases which is at variance with provisions of this Memo corrective actionfor the same shbuld be taken.

Sd/- S. C. TewaryPrincipal Secretary


No. 88/l(12)-Edn.(A) Dated, Kolkata, the 18th February, 20 10.Copy forwarded for information and necessary action to the : -1. Accountant General (A&E), West Bengal,2. Finance Department of this Government,3. Director of Public Instruction, West Bengal,4. Pay & Accounts’ Officer, Kolkta-1, Kolkata Pay & Accounts Office-I. 81/2/2, Phears Lane, Kolkata-

700 012,5. Pay- & Accounts Officer, Koikta-Il, Kolkata Pay & Accounts Office-II, Hyde Lane, Kolkata- 700 073,6. Director of Treasuries, New India Assurance Bldgs.(2nd & 3rd floor), 4, Lyons Range, Kolkata-1,7. Joint Secretary, University Branch, Higher Education Department,8. Joint Secretary, C.S. Branch, Higher Education Department,9. Computer Cell of this Department,10. P.S. to M.I.C, Higher Education Department,11. PA. to Principal Secretary of this Department,12. Guard File.

No. 309/1(30)A Dated, Kolkata, the 24th March, 2010.

Copy forwarded for information and necessary action to the Principal/Officer-in-Charge,

for Director of Public instruction, West Bengal.


APPOINTMENT BRANCHBIKASH BHAVAN

SALT LAKE, KOLKATA-700 091

No. 1102-Edn(A)/5P-40/10 Dated, Kolkata, the 18th November, 2010.

From : Shri S.K.Ghosh,Joint Secretary to the Government of West Bengal.

To : The Director of Public Instruction, West Bengal.Sub : Special Allowance for Principals of the Government Colleges of this State.Ref. : 148-Admn. Dtd. 07.05.2010.

The pay structure of Principals of the State Government Colleges has been revised as per this DepartmentG.O. No.864-Edn(A) dtd. 28.08.2009.

The undersigned is, now, directed by order of the Governor to say that the Governor has been pleased toallow special allowance @ Rs.2,000/- per month in favour of the principals of Under Graduate Government Collegesand @ Rs.3,000/- per month in favour of the Principals of the Post Graduate Government Colleges of this State inaddition to UGC Pay Band Scale of Rs.37,400-67,000/- with Academic Grade Pay of Rs.10,000/- with eflect from1st April, 2010 provided the Principals fulfill the conditions of eligibility in respect of educational qualification andteaching research experience as per UGC norms and the Post-Graduate course is approved by the UGC.

This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Department vide their U O No 877 Group-P (Pay) dtd.01.04.2010.

All concerned are being informed accordingly.

Sd/-Joint Secretary

GOVERNMENT ORDER 55

No.ll02/l(12)-Edn(A) Dated, Kolkata, the 18th November, 2010.

Copy forwarded for information and necessary action to the :-1. Principal Accountant General (A&E), West Bengal;2. Finance Department, Group-’P’(Pay) of this Government;3. Pay & Accounts Officer-I, 81/2/2, Phears Lane, Kolkata-700 012;4. Pay & Accounts Officer-II, P-1, Hyde Lane, Kolkata-700 073;5. Director of Treasuries, New India Assurance Buildings, 2rd & 3rd floor, 4, Lyons Range,

Kolkata-700 001;

He is requested to kindly take necessary action for circulation of this order among Treasuries/ Sub-Treasuriesunder his control.

6. Joint Secretary of this Department (C.S. Branch);7. P.S. to the M.I.C. of this Department.8. P. A. to the Principal Secretary of this Department;9. Additional Director of Public Instruction (Admn.), West Bengal;10. Officer-on-Special Duty, Appointment Branch of this Department;11. Computer Cell of this Department;12. Guard file.

Sd/- G. DasAssistant Secretary

GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGALPERSONNEL & ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS DEPARTMENT

TRAINING CELLWRITERS’ BUILDINGS

KOLKATA-700 001

MEMORANDUM

No. 42-PAR(Trg)/HR/O/3T-11/2011 Dated, Kolkata, the 2nd February, 2011.

Subject: Procedure to be followed in connection with private foreign visits of employees ofState Government, Semi or Quasi-Government organization including employees of Statutorybodies, Undertakings, Corporations, Companies, Cooperatives and institutions etc.

The procedure for permitting Government servants to visit foreign countries in private capacity has beenliberalized by Government of India and now the leave sanctioning authority grants the permission to the officialconcerned for private visits abroad.

In view of sharp increase in number of Government servants visiting foreign countries in private capacity, aneed has been felt to liberalize the existing instructions of State Government in this regard.

Accordingly, in partial modification of the Order No. 466-PAR(Trg)HT/O/3T-112/97 dated July 18, 2003, followingprocedure would be adopted in case of private visits of Government servants to foreign countries :

(1) All categories of employees may be permitted to visit abroad in their private capacity, with the priorclearance of the authority competent to sanction their leave.

(2) The application shall be made to the competent authority in the attached proforma (Annexure-I) atleast fifteen days before the commencement of such visit.

(3) The permission shall be granted by the leave sanctioning authority with a copy to the cadre controlling


authority within seven days of receipt of such application. A standard format of permission is enclosedherewith (Annexure-II).

(4) In partial modification of Order No. 974-PAR(Vig.) dated Calcutta, July 25, 2000 of Home (P&AR)Department, Vigilance Clearance shall not be required for according permission to travel abroad inprivate capacity.

(5) For the purpose of clarification, private visit would mean the visits in which the entire expenditure isbeing borne by the officer concerned or his family members. The term ‘family’ means wife or husband,as the case may be, sons and daughters including adopted sons/daughters, mother and father.

Visits involving any kind of domestic/foreign sponsorship or acceptance of foreign hospitality on boarding,lodging or any other component of the vist shall continue to be governed by the earlier order.

Sd/-(Samar Ghosh)Chief Secretary

Government of West Bengal

No. : 42/2(B)/PAR(Trg)/HR/0/3T-11/2011

Copy with enclosures forwarded to:-1. The D.G. & I.G.P., West Bengal, Writers’ Buildings, Kolkata 700 001 .2. The Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, Lal Bazar, Kolkata 700 00 1 .3. The Resident Commissioner to the Government of West Bengal, A/2 State Emporia Buildings Baba Kharak

Singh Marg, New Delhi 110 00 1.4. The Divisional Commissioner, Presidency / Jalpaiguri / Burdwan Division.5. The District Magistrate, Murshidabad / Nadia / Howrah / North 24 Parganas / South 24 Parganas /

Hooghly / Burdwan / Bankura / Birbhum / Purulia / Purba Midnapore / Paschim Midnapore / CoochBehar / Jalpaiguri / Darjeeling / Uttar Dinajpur / Dakshin Dinajpur / Malda Districts.

6. The Secretary, Public Service Commission, West Bengal, 161 A, S.P. Mukherjee Road, Kolkata.7. The Commissioner, State Election Commission; West Bengal, 1 8, Sarojini Naidu Sarani, Koikata 7000178. The Pay & Accounts Officer, Kolkata Pay & Accounts Office, 81/2/2, Phears Lane, Kolkata 700 012.9. The Secretary, Vigilance ‘Commission, West-Bengal, Bikash Bhavan, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700 091 .10. The Principal Secretary West Bengal Legislative Assembly, Assembly House, Kolkata.11. The Chief Executive Officer, Kolkata Metropalitan Development Authority, Prashasan Bhavan Salt Lake,

Kolkata 700 091.12. The Commissioner, Koikata Municipal Corporation, 5, S. N. Banerjee Road, Kolkata 700 013.13. The Secretary, West Bengal Bhavan, Block DJ, Salt Lake Kolkata - 700091.14. The Director, Administrative Training Institute Government of West Bengal Sector-III Salt Lake .15. The Joint Secretary to the Government of West Bengal, Common Cadre Wing, Personnel & AR

Department, Writers’ Buildings, Koikata 700 001.16. The Joint Secretary to the Government of West Bengal, WBCS Cell, Personnel & A.R. Department, Writers’

Buildings, Koikata 700 001.17. The Joint Secretary to the Government of West Bengal, Vigilance Cell, Personnel & AR Department,

Writers’ Buildings, Koikata 700 001.18. The Special Secretary to the Government of West Bengal, Police Services Cell, Home (Police) Department,

Writers’ Buildings, Koikata 700 001.19. The Assistant Secretary to the Government of West Bengal, General Cell, Personnel & AR Department,

Writers’ Buildings, Koikata 700 001 . -With a request to circulate among all the cell of this Department.

Anurag Srivastava, IASOSD and Undersecretary

to the Govt. of West Bengal

GOVERNMENT ORDER 57

PROFORMA FOR APPLICATION FOR PRIVATE VISIT (ANNEXURE I)

1. Name2. Designation3. Pay4. Office

(specify Department/Directorate / Undertaking /Corporation etc.)

5. Passport No.6. Details of private foreign travel to be undertaken

Period of abroad Names of the Purpose Estimated Sources RemarksFrom To foreign countries Expenditure of Funds*

to be visited (Travel, board /lodging; visa/misc. etc.

7. Details of previous private foreign travel, if any undertaken during the last four years(as under item No. 6)

Name :Designation :Date :

* In case of foreign funding which comes under purview of the FCRA, 1976 clearance from the Ministry ofHome Affairs, Government of India is required to be obtained.

PERMISSION TO VISIT FOREIGN COUNTRIES IN PRIVATE CAPACITY (ANNEXURE II)

No. Date .........................................

I...............................................................................(Name of leave sanctioning authority).....................posted......................as...................................................(designation) ...................................... .. hereby authorize...................................................... (Name of applicant).....................................posted as .............................(designation of applicant) ...................................... to visit ............................... (Name of countries) .............................. for the period ..................................... in his/her private capacity. She/he has been......................................... granted .................................. (nature of leave) ............................... for the period......................................... for this purpose.

Date : Signature:

Copy for information to:1. Cadre controlling authority




KOLKATA-700 091

No. 77- Edn(A)/10M-104/09(Pt-l) Dated, Kolkata, the 2nd February, 2011MEMORANDUM

Subject: Implementation of Revised pension/family pension of pre 01.01.2006 pensioners/Family PensionersIn respect of Teaching Staff Including Demonstrators, Librarians, Physical Instructors/Instructresses and equivalentcadres of State Govt. Colleges.

Consequent on revision of pension/family pension in terms of Memo. No. 196-Edn(A) dt. 22.03.2010,references are being received in this Dept. seeking clarifications in regard to provision as contained at para 4.3 ofthe aforesaid memo.

After careful consideration of the matter the undersigned is directed to clarify the points raised therein forinformation and guidance of ail concerned.

Provision 4.3 of this Deptt. Memo. No. 196-Edn(A) dt. 22.03.2010 : The fixation of pension will besubject to the provision that the revised pension, in no case, shall be lower than 50% of the minimum of thepay in the Pay Band plus the Academic Grade Pay (AGP) in the revised Pay Structure corresponding to thepre-revised pay scale from which the pensioner had retired, after completing maximum required qualifyingservice of 33 years “before 01.01.2006.

Clarification : The pension calculated @ 50% of the minimum of pay in the Pay Band plus Academic GradePay would be calculated (i) at the minimum of the pay in the Pay Band plus Academic Grade Pay Corresponding tothe Pre-revised pay scale. For example, if a pensioner had retired in the pre-revised scale of, pay of Rs. 16.400-22.400/-, the corresponding Pay Band being Rs.37,400-67,000/- and the corresponding Academic Grade Paybeing Rs.10,000/- p.m. his/her minimum guaranted pension would be 50% of Rs.37,400+Rs. 10.000/- i.e, Rs.23,700/- provided he/she has rendered 33 years qualifying service.

A concordance table as at Annexure-l is enclosed to facilitate the payment of revised pension/family pensionin terms of para 4.3 of this Deptt. Memo No 196-Edn(A) dt. 22.03.2010 in all cases where fixation of pensionunder that provision is more beneficial.

It is further clarified that as per para 4.3 of this Deptt. Memo. No. 196-Edn(A) dt. 22.03.2010, the revisedpension of those who retired after completing maximum required qualifying service(i.e. 33 years) before01.01.2006 cannot be less than the pension indicated at column 8 at Annexure-l (i.e. 50% of the sum of minimumof Pay Band and the Academic Grade Pay corresponding to the scale of pay the pensioners held at the time oftheir retirement). The pension as indicated at column 8 of the Annexure-l will be reduced pro-rata where thepensioner had less than the maximum required qualifying service (i.e. 33 years) for full pension and in no case itwill be less than Rs.3,300/- p.m.

In case the pension consolidated as per para 4.1 of this Deptt. Memo. No. 196-Edn(A) dt. 22.03.2010 ishigher than the pension calculated in the manner as indicated in para 4.3 of the said Memo., the same (higherpension) will be treated as Basic Pension. These cases should not be sent to the Pr. Accountant General(A&E),West Bengal for authorization.

The revised family pension in respect of those pensioners who retired before 01.01.2006 and the pensionerswho died before 01.01.2006 can not be less than the pension as indicated at column 9 at Annexure-l (i.e. 30% ofthe sum total of minimum of Pay Band and Academic Grade Pay corresponding to the scale of pay the pensionersheld at the time of their retirement).

In case the family pension consolidated as per para 4.1 of this Deptt. Memo. No. 196-Edn(A) dt. 22.03.2010is higher than the family pension indicated at column 9 of the Annexure-l, the same (the higher family pension)will be treated as Basic Family Pension.

The Pension Sanctioning Authority will revise pension/family pension and send the same to the Accountant

GOVERNMENT ORDER 59

General (A&E) WB with service books and previous pension papers for issue of revised pension payment authorityalong with a copy to the respective treasuries and treasuries in turn will start payment of revised pensionprovisionally until they receive revised PRO from the Accountant General (A&E) WB. No formal sanction in singlecomprehensive form is necessary in such cases. Accountant General (A&E) WB after due check at his end willIssue revised authority to the pension disbursing authority concerned & a copy of the same may be endorsed tothe pension sanctioning authority concerned within a period of ten (10) months. Where payment of pension ismade in terms of Part-A of West Bengal Treasury Rules, such provisional payment shall be made by the banks ongetting the authority from the Accountant General (A&E) WB.

The Pensioner/Family Pensioner will have to submit an undertaking as per Annexure-ll (C) declaring that ifthe Pensioner/Family Pensioner is paid in excess, the same will be recovered from the Pensioner/Family Pensioner.

A suitable entry regarding the revised pension shall be recorded by the Pension Disbursing Authorities inboth halves of the pension payment order.

An intimation regarding disbursement of revised pension/family .pension in the revised Form as at Annexure-lll should be sent by the Pension Disbursing Authorities to the office of the Pr. Accountant General (A&E), WestBengal.

If any discrepancy arises on account of revised pension of any Pensioner/Family Pensioner, a revised authoritymay be issued and brought to the notice of the Pension Disbursing Office concerned immediately for properrectification.

In case where the Pensioners/Family Pensioners are drawing Pension/family pension in other states, thePension Sanctioning Authority will revise the pension in terms of para 4.3 of this Deptt. Memo. No. 196-Edn(A); dt. 22.03.2010 and send the same to the Pr. Accountant General (A&E), West Bengal for arrangingSpecial Seal Authority for payment through Treasuries/Banks of other states.

This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Deptt. vide their U.O. No. 57- F (Pen); dt.01/02/2011.All concerned are being informed accordingly.

Sd/-K. K. BhaumikJoint Secretary

No.77/1(12)-Edn(A) Date, Kolkata, the 2nd February, 2011

Copy with the copies of the Annexures is forwarded for information and necessary action to the :-1. Pr. Accountant General (A & E), West Bengal, Treasury Buildings, Kolkata-1.2. Finance Deptt., Pension Branch, Block-IV, (2nd floor). Writers’ Buildings, Kolkata-1.3. Director of Public Instruction, West Bengal.4. Pay & Accounts Officer-l, 81/2/2, Phears Lane, Kolkata-12.5. Pay & Accounts Officer-ll, P-l, Hyde Lane, Kolkata-73.6. Director of Treasuries, New India Assurance Buildings, (2nd & 3rd floor), 4, Lyons Range, Kolkata-1.7. Joint Secretary, C.S Branch of this.8. P. S. to the M. I. C. of this Deptt.9. PA to the Principal Secretary of this Deptt.10. Joint Secretary, Appointment Branch of this Deptt.I1. Statistical Cell of this Deptt.12. Guard file.

Sd/-Deputy Secretary


ANNEXURE-1; to the Memo NO.77-Edn(A); Dated 2. February. 2011.

Revised Pension based on Revised Pay Structure (Pay Bands & Academic Grade Pay/ Grade Pay) with effectfrom 01.01.2006 for posts carrying in Present Scale in respect of Demonstrators/Lecturers/Lecturers (Sr. Scale)/Lecturers (Sr. Grade)/Readers/ Professors/ Principals/Librarians / Physical Instructors/ Instructress and equivalentcadres/ positions of the State Govt. Colleges as per U.G.C. scale of pay w.e.f. 01.01.1973, 01.01.1986, 01.01.1996and corresponding Pay Bands and Academic Grade Pay w.e.f. 01.01.2006 vide G.O.No. 864-Edn(A); Dt. 28.8.2009and 865-Edn(A); Dt. 28.8.2009 read with subsequent G.O. No. 195- Edn(A); Dt. 22/3/2010, 196 - Edn (A); Dt. 22/3/2010, No. 857-Edn (A); Dt. 9.9.2010 & 858-Edn(A); 9.9.2010.

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)

SI. Pre Pay Scale Pay Scale Pay Scale Revised Pay Corresponding Pension FamilyNo. 01.01.1973 (UGC) w.e.f. (UGC) w.e.f. (UGC) w.e.f. Structur (UGC) AGP =50% of Pension

Pay Scale 01.01. 1973 01.01.1986 01.01. 1996 Pay Band (Academic sum of min. =30% of+ AGP w.e.f. Grade Pay) PB+AGP Sum of Min.1.01.2006 PB+AGP

1. 250-400/- 500-900 i.2200 - i. 8000 - i.15600 i. 6000- i. 10800/- i. 6480/-(for existing (For existing 4000/- 13500/- -39100/- ii. 4700/- ii. 6850/- ii. 3060/-demons- demonstrator ii. 1740-60- ii. 5500-175- ii.9000-trators (incumbents -2700-75 9000/- 40500/-only) only) -3000/-

2. Rs. 300-25- 700-1600 2200-75- 8000-275- 15600- 6000/- 10800/- 6480/-600-40-800/- (Retired: 2800-100- 13500/- 39100/-

withBasic Pay 4000/-upto Rs.980/-

3. Rs. 400-30- 700-1600 3000-100- 10000-325- 15600- 7000/- 11300/- 6780/-640-40- 800/- (Retiredc with 3500-125- 15200/- 39100/-

Basic Pay of 5000/-Rs.1020 &above uptoRs. 1350/-)

4. 700-1600 3700-125- 12000-420- 15600- 8000/- 11800/- 7080/-(Retired with 4950-150- 18300/- 39100/-Basic Pay of 5700 [Retired [Retired withRs. 1400/- & with the Basic Basic Payabove.). Pay upto upto

Rs. 4200/-)] Rs.12840/-]

5. 3700-125- 12000-420- 37400- 9000/- 23200/- 13920/-4950-150- 18300/- 67000/-5700 [Retired [Retired withwith Basic Basic Pay ofPay of Rs. 13260/-Rs. 4325/- & or above]above]

6. a) 1200 - 4500-150- 16400-450- 37400- 10000/- 23700/- 14220/-1900/- 5700-200- 20900-500 67000/-

b) 1500- 7300/- 22400/-2500/-

GOVERNMENT ORDER 61

(TO BE SUBMITTED IN TRIPLICATE)1. Name of the Pensioner(in Block letters)2. Designation of the teacher at the time of retirement3. Name of the College from Where the Pensioner retired4. Type of Pension admissible (Superannuation/Retiring Pension)5. Date from which the Pension Commences6. P.P.O. No.7. Date of joining Service8. Date of ending Service9. Length of Qualifying Service10. Scale of Pay held at the time of retirement11. Basic Pay at the time of Retirement12. Pay Band and Academic Grade Pay (w.e.f. 1.1.2006) corresponding to Sl.no. 10 and 11 (as in col. 6

and col. 7 of Annexure -1 to this memo.)13 50% of the minimum of the Pay Band and AGP (as in col. 8 of the Annexure-i to this memo .)

Signature of the Principal / Officer-in-Charge of the College /A.O., Presidency University in case of erstwhile Presidency College(from where the Pensioner retired).

Enclo : Copy of the P.P.O.

ANNEXURE-II (B)(FOR FAMILY PENSIONERS)

(TO BE SUBMITTED IN TRIPLICATE)

1. Name of the Family Pensioner(ln Block Letters)2. Name.of the Spouse (teacher) retired or died in harness3. Designation of the spouse (Teacher) at the time of retirement or death4. Name of the College from Where the spouse (Teacher) retired or died in harness5. Date of Death6. Date from which the Family Pension commences7. P.P.O. No.8. Date of Joining Service of the spouse (Teacher)9. Date of ending Service of the spouse (Teacher)10. Length of Qualifying Service11. Scale of pay held at the time of retirement or death12. Basic Pav at the time of Retirement or Death13. Pay Band and Academic Grade Pay (w.e.f. 1.1.2006) corresponding to Sl.no. 11 and 12 (as in col. 6 and

col, 7 of Annexure -1 to this memo.)14. 30% of the minimum of the Pay Band and AGP (as in col. 9 of the Annex-l to this memo.)

Signature of the Principal / Officer-in-Charge of the College /A.O., Presidency University in case of erstwhile PresidencyCollege (Where the spouse of the Family Pensioner last Served)Enclo : Copy of the P.P.O.


ANNEXURE II (C)(DECLARATION TO BE GIVEN BY THE PENSIONER/FAMILY PENSIONER)

I declare that if I am paid in excess of which I am entitled, the same will be recovered from my futurePension/Family Pension.

Signature of the Pensioner/ Family Pensioner

ANNEXURE-III

(Form of intimation by the Pension Disbursing Authority to the office of the Accountant General (A&E), WestBengal regarding the revision of Pension/Family Pension in terms of G.O. No. 196-Edn(A) dt 22/03/2010 read withG.O. No, 858-Edn(A) dt 09/09/2010 as well as this order).

1. Name of the pensioner/Family Pensioner2. P.P.O. No.3. Date of Birth/Age4. Date of retirement5. Date of Death6. Scale of Pay on the date of retirement/death7. Basic Pay on the date of retirement/ death8. Corresponding Pay Band and Academic Grade Pay w.e.f. 1.1.20069. Length of Qualifying Service10. Savings Bank A/C No.11. Name of the Bank/Paying Branch12. Bank Code No.

COMPUTATION OF PENSION PART-A13. Computation of Consolidated Pension /Family Pension as per Para 4.1 of the G.O. No. 196-Edn(A) dt.

22/03/2010

PENSION (a) Family Pension(b) Enhanced Family Pension

i. Existing Basic Pension (including Commuted Portion (a) (i) Existing Family Pension (excluding the and excluding the effect of merger of 50% D.R. ) = effect of the merger of 50% D.R.)=

ii. Consolidated Pension = (2) × 2.26 (b)(i) Existing enhanced Family Pension

(Excluding the effect of the mergerof 50% D.R.) =

(a)(ii) Consolidated Family Pension = (a)(i) × 2.26

(b)(ii) Consolidated enhanced FamilyPension =(b)(i)X 2.26

GOVERNMENT ORDER 63

PART-B14. Computation of Pension/ Family Pension in terms of Para 4.3 of the G.O. No. 196-Edn(A) dt. 22/03/2010

and Annexure-1 of this order (G.O. No 77- Edn(A); Dt. 02/02/2011)

PENSION Family Pension

i. 50% of the minimum Pay Band + i. 30% of the minimum of the Pay Band +Academic Grade Pay = Academic Grade Pay =

ii. Qualifying Service = ii Family Pension = (i)

iii. Pension = (i) × (ii)33

15. Revised Pension /Family Pension Paid(Part A or Part B. whichever is higher)

GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGALFINANCE DEPARTMENT

AUDIT BRANCH

MEMORANDUM

No:1146-F(P). Kolkata, the 14th February, 2011

The matter of enhancement of the ceiling of Maternity Leave on the recommendation of the Fifth payCommission has been under active consideration of the Government for some time past. At present a femaleState Government employee is entitled to Maternity Leave for 135 days in terms of Rule 199 of West BengalService Rule, Part-I read with Finance Department Memo No, 3453-F dt 28.03.01

After careful consideration of the matter the Governor has been pleased to-decide that a female StateGovernment employee, may be granted Maternity Leave for a maximum of 180 days subject to-the existingterms and conditions as laid down in Rule 199 of the West Bengal Service Part-I

This order shall take effect from 01.01.2011Necessary amendments of the relevant Rules will be made in due course.

Sd/- S. K. ChattopadhyayOSD & Ex-officio Special Secretary to the

Government of West Bengal, Finance Department

No:1146/1(500)-F(P) Kolkata;.the 14th February. 2011

Copy forwarded for information and necessary action to :1. The Accountant General (A & E), West Bengal, Treasury Buildings, Kolkata-700001.2. The Principal Accountant General (Audit) West Bengal, Treasary Buildings. Kolkata-700001.3. The Secretary, Public Service Commission, 161-A, S. P. Mukherjee Road, Kolkata-700026.4. The Director of Treasuries & Accounts, West Bengal, New India Assurance Buildings, 4, Lyons Range,

Kolkata-700001.5. The pay & Accounts Officer, Kolkata Pay & Accounts Office-I, Pay-I 81/2/2, Phears Lane Kolkata-700012.6. The Pay & Accounts Officer, Kolkata Pay & Accounts Office-II, P-I, Hyde Lane, Jawahar Buildings, Kolkata-

700073.7. The Accounts Officer,-West Bengal Secretariat, Writers Buildings, Kolkata-1.8. The Accounts Officer, West Bengal Secretariat, Bikash Bhawan, Salt Lake.Kol-21.9. The Additional Chief Secretary/Principal Seceretery/Secretary, ...............................................................10. The Sub-Divisional Officer, ....................................................................................................................


11. The District Magistrate/Judge,...............................................................................................................12. The Treasury Officer ..............................................................................................................................13. The, ............................................................................................................... Department/Directorate14. The Commissioner,................................................................................................................................15. The Principal, Industrial Training Institute, ............................................................................................16. The Superintendent of Police. ................................................................................................................17. The Superintending Engineer/Executive Engineer, ......................................................................................

Sd/-OSD & Ex-officio Deputy Secretary to the

Government of West Bengal, Finance Department


TECHNICAL BRANCHBIKASH BHAVAN, SALT LAKE, KOLKATA-700 091.

No.85-Edn(T)/10M-36/09 Dated, Kolkata, the 28th February, 2011.

From : Shri S. C. Tewary, IAS., .Principal Secretary to the Govt. of West Bengal.

To : The Director of Technical Education, West Bengal.

Sub : Payment of 20% of Arrears in connection with Revision of Pay-scales of Principals, Teachers andLibrarians of 6(six) Govt. Engineering and Technological Colleges in West Bengal with effectfrom 01.01.2006.

In continuation to this Department’s G.O. No. 434-Edn(T) dated 26.07.2010 and with reference to his letterNo. 527(T) dated 26.10.2010, the Governor has been pleased to decide the following modalities regarding thepayment of arrears for the period from 01.01.2006 - 31.03.2009 payable to the Principals, Teachers/Librarians of6(six) Govt. Engineering and Technological degree Colleges due to revision of pay as per AICTE recommendations.

20% of the arrear payable for the period from 01.01.2006 - 31.03:2009 will be paid in 3(three) equalinstalments as shown below :-

i) 1st instalment-in the financial year 2010-2011.ii) 2nd instalment - in the financial year 2011-2012.iii) 3rd instalment -in the financial year 2012-2013.

Such instalments in the financial year 2010-2011 will be due for payment from 01.03.2011.Decision regarding payment of the balance 80% of the arrears would be considered separately and notified

in due course after interactions with and obtaining suitable inputs from Government of India.This issues with the concurrence of Finance Department, Government of West Bengal vide their U.O. No.

2831-Group-P(Pay) dated 28.02.2011.

Sd/-Principal Secretary to the Govt. of West Bengal

GOVERNMENT ORDER 65


APPOINTMENT BRANCHBIKASH BHAVAN, BIDHANNAGAR

KOLKATA - 700 091

No. 139-Edn(A)/5P-10/11 Date: 28.02.2011

MEMORANDUM

With reference to this Department’s memorandum no. 88-Edn (A), dt. 18.02.2010 and subsequent no. 531-Edn (A), dt. 15.06.2010, representations have been received by this Department for reconsideration of the cut-off date up to which matter relating to CAS/ Re-designation of Teachers can be processed following the UGCRegulations of 2000. These representations are particularly related to UGC (Minimum Qualifications forAppointment of Teachers and Other Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and Measures for the Maintenanceof Standards in Higher Education) Regulations, 2010 which has been finally issued vide No. F.3-1/2009 dt.30.06.2010 by the UGC.

This matter has been under active consideration of the Government for some time past. After carefulconsideration of the matter, the Governor is pleased to decide that the matter of Re-designation/ Placement ofincumbent Reader/ Lecturer (Selection Grade) in higher Pay Band of Rs. 37,400 - 67,000/- (P.B.- 4) with AGP of Rs.9000/- on completion of 3 years’ of continuous service in the pre-revised scale of pay of Rs. 12,000 - 18300/- shallcontinue up to 29.06.2010 as per UGC Regulations, 2000. From 30.06.2010 onwards, the UGC Regulations of2010 issued vide no. F.3 1/2009 dt, 30.06.20l6 shall be effective for the purpose.

Sd/-Joint Secretary

No. 139/1(12)-Edn(A)/5P- 10/11 Date: 28.02.2011

Copy forwarded for information and necessary action to:1. Accountant General, (A&E), West Bengal.2. Finance Department, Group - P (Pay) of this Government.3. Finance Department (Group -B) of this Govt.4. Director of Public Instruction. West Bengal, Bikash Bhavan, Kolkata - 91.5. The Director of Treasuries and Accounts, 4, Lyons Range, Kolkata - 700 001.6. The Pay & Accounts Officer, Kolkata Pay & Accounts Office-!, 81/2/2, Phears Lane, Kql-700012.7. The Pay & Accounts Officer, Kolkata Pay & Accounts Office-II, P-1, Hyde Lane, Jawahar Building,

Kolkata - 73.8. P. S. to Hon’ble MIC, Higher Education Department, Government of West Bengal.9. PA to the Principal Secretary of this Department.10. Computer Cell of this Department.11. University Branch.12. C.S.Branch.13. Guard File.

Joint Secretary


GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGALDEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

(CS. BRANCH) BIKASH BHAVAN, SALT LAKEKOLKATA-700091.

No. 438-Edn(CS)/4C-59/11(Pt.-l) Dated Kolkata, the 15th day of June, 2011,

From : Joint Secretary to the Govt. of West Bengal.

To : The Director of Public Instruction, West Bengal.

The undersigned is directed by order of the Governor to say that nomination of all persons/officials to act asGovernment nominees on the Governing Bodies of Government aided colleges of the State done prior to01.05.2011 hereby stands withdrawn. Names of new Government nominees individual college-wise are beingsent shortly.

This may kindly be communicated to all concerned non-Government colleges of the State.

Sd./M. ChakravartyJoint Secretary.

No. 438/l(2)-Edn(CS)/4C-59/ll(Pt.-l) Dated Kolkata, the 15th day of June, 2011.

Copy forwarded for information to the:-1. P.S. to M.I.C., Higher Education Deptt2. PA to Principal Secretary, Higher Education Deptt.

Sd/-Joint Secretary.

ROPA RULES - 2009 Ü˛ü≈ã˛yÓ˚# fl∫yÌ≈ §Ç!Ÿ’‹T §Ó˚Ü˛yÓ˚# xy Ïò¢öyüyÓ˚ ≤Ãy ÏÎ˚y!àÜ˛ Ó˚*˛õ ÏÓ˚áy

§Ó˚Ü˛yÓ˚# ˆÜ˛yÎ˚yê≈˛yÓ˚ Óy §Ó˚Ü˛yÓ˚# û˛yí˛¸y Óyí˛¸#ˆÏï˛ ÎÑyÓ˚y Óy§ Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ö H.R.A. Ä License fee ≤ÃòyˆÏöÓ˚ !Ó£ÏÎ˚!ê˛ !öˆÏ¡¨y_´û˛yˆÏÓ

!fliÓ˚#Ü,˛ï˛ •ˆÏÓ ≠

SiV ˆÎ ˆ«˛ Ïe §ÓÜ˛yÓ# xyÓy§ö ˆÜ˛y Ïöy !ö!ò≈‹T ˛õ ÏòÓ Ü˛ü≈ã˛yÓ#Ó çöƒ !ö!ò≈‹T SearmarkedV Ó ÏÎ ÏåÈ ~ÓÇ

xyÓy§ö!ê˛ Óy§ ÏÎyàƒ xÌ≈yÍ ≤Ã ÏÎyçö#Î ç° §ÓÓÓy•ñ !Óò%ƒ Ïï˛Ó ÓƒÓfliy Ä ~Ü˛Ü˛ ˛õ!ÓÓy ÏÓÓ ü Ïï˛y ˆ¢Ôã˛yày ÏÓÓ

ÓƒÓfliy Ó ÏÎ ÏåÈ˛ ˆ§ Ï«˛ Ïe ˙ ˛õ ÏòÓ Ü˛ü≈ã˛yÓ#Ó ˆÜ˛y Ïöy H.R.A. ≤Ãy˛õƒ • ÏÓ öy !ï˛!ö xöƒe Óy§ Ü˛Ó Ï°Ä–

SiiV @ˇÃ&˛õ !í˛ Ü˛ü≈ã˛yÓ# Î!ò ïÑ y ÏòÓ çöƒ !ö!ò≈‹T xyÓy§ Ïö Ó§Óy§ Ü˛ ÏÓö ï˛ ÏÓ ˆÜ˛y Ïöy License fee !ò Ïï˛ • ÏÓ öy–

SiiiV @ˇÃ&˛õ !í˛ Ü˛ü≈ã˛yÓ# Î!ò !ö¡üy ÏöÓ xyÓy§ Ïö Ìy ÏÜ˛ö ˆÎ xyÓy§ö ï˛y ÏòÓ çöƒ !ö!ò≈‹T öÎ ˆ§ Ï«˛ ÏeÄ ˆÜ˛y Ïöy

License fee !ò Ïï˛ • ÏÓ öy–

Medical Allowance :

1. Óyçƒ §ÓÜ˛yÓ# Ü˛ü≈ã˛yÓ# Ä §ÓÜ˛yÓ# ˆ˛õ¢öyÓ ÏòÓ M.A. 1.4.2009 ï˛y!Óá ˆÌ ÏÜ˛ üy!§Ü˛ 300 ê˛yÜ˛y •y ÏÓ ≤Ãòyö

Ü˛Óy • ÏÓ–

GOVERNMENT ORDER 67

2. ≤Ã!ï˛Óy ÏÓ •y§˛õyï˛y Ï°Ó xhsˇ!Ó≈û˛y Ïà !ã˛!Ü˛Í§yÎ Å£Ïô e´ ÏÎÓ ˆ«˛ Ïe 1.4.2009 ï˛y!Óá ˆÌ ÏÜ˛ § ÏÓ≈yFã˛ •yÓ

Ó,!k˛ Ü˛ ÏÓ 2500 ê˛yÜ˛yÎ í zß#ï˛ Ü˛Óy •°–

3. ÎÑyÓy West Bengal Health Scheme, 2008ÈÙÈ~ xhsˇû%≈ !_´Ó çöƒ option ˆò ÏÓö ïÑ yÓy 1 Ä 2 ÈÙÈ~Ó Ó!î≈ï˛

§%!Óôy=!° ˛õy ÏÓö öy–

Payment of arrear

I. 1.1.2006 ˆÌˆÏÜ˛ 31.3.2008 ˛õÎ≈hsˇ ˆÜ˛y Ïöy arrear payment Ü˛Ó˚y •ˆÏÓ öy–

2. 1.4.2008 ˆÌˆÏÜ˛ 31.3.2009 ˛õÎ≈hsˇ arrear ˆÓï˛ö 2009-2010 xy!Ì≈Ü˛ ÓÍ§Ó˚ ˆÌ ÏÜ˛ 3!ê˛ Óy!£Ï≈Ü˛ !Ü˛!hflÏ Ïï˛ ˆòÄÎ˚y

• ÏÓ–

3. 31.3.2008 Ì ÏÜ˛ 1.4.2008 ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ ü Ïôƒ !Ü˛v 23.2.2009 ï˛y!Ó˚ ÏáÓ˚ õ) ÏÓ≈ ÎÑyÓ˚y xÓ§Ó˚ ö ÏÓö ïÑ y ÏòÓ˚ xÓ§ ÏÓ˚Ó˚ !òö

arrear ˆÓï˛ö Sin cashV ˆòÄÎ˚y •ˆÏÓ–

Retirement benefit

01.01.06 ~Ó ˛õ) ÏÓ≈ ÎÑyÓy xÓ§Ó @ˇÃ•î Ü˛ ÏÓ ÏåÈö É

01.01.06 ÈÙÈ~Ó ˛õ) ÏÓ≈ ÎÑyÓy xÓ§Ó @ˇÃ•î Ü˛ ÏÓ ÏåÈö ~ÓÇ ˆ˛õö¢ö†ú˛ƒy!ü!° ˆ˛õö¢ö ˛õy ÏFåÈöñ ïÑ yÓy ˛õM˛Èü

ˆÓï˛ö Ü˛!ü¢ ÏöÓ §% õy!Ó Ï¢Ó !û˛!_ Ïï˛ ≤ÃÜ˛y!¢ï˛ §ÓÜ˛yÓ# xy Ïò¢öyüy xö%§y ÏÓ [G.O. No.200F (Pen) dt.

25.02.09] Ó!ô≈ï˛ •yˆÏÓ˚ ˆ˛õö¢ö†ú˛ƒy!ü!° ˆ˛õö¢ö ˛õyˆÏÓö– ~ˆÏ«˛ˆÏe ˆ˛õö¢ö†ú˛ƒy!ü!° ˆ˛õö¢ˆÏöÓ˚

consolidation ˆÎ ˛õk˛!ï˛ Ïï˛ • ÏÓ Existing Pension + D. Pension @ 50% of basic pension + DearnessReflif @ 24% of (Existing pension + D. Pension) + fitment @ 40% of existing pension.

~•z ˛õk˛!ï˛ Ïï˛ Pension/Family PensionÈÙÈ~Ó §Ó≈!ö¡ •yÓ • ÏÓ 3,300 ê˛yÜ˛y–

ˆ˛õö¢ö†˛ú˛ƒy!ü!° ˆ˛õö¢ ÏöÓ Ó ÏÜ˛Îy 8!ê˛ !Ü˛!hflÏ Ïï˛ ≤Ãòyö Ü˛Óy • ÏÓ– ≤ÃÌü !Ü˛!hflÏ xyàfiê˛ ’09 ÷Ó& • ÏÓ ~ÓÇ

üyã≈ 2010ÈÙÈ~ ˆ¢£Ï • ÏÓ–

ˆ˛õö¢ö†ú˛ƒy!ü!° ˆ˛õö¢ˆÏöÓ˚ §Ó≈!ö¡¨ §#üy •ˆÏÓ 3,300 ê˛yÜ˛y–

ˆ˛õö¢ ÏöÓ˚ § ÏÓ≈yFã˛ §#üy !öô≈yÓ˚î Ü˛Ó˚y • ÏÎ˚ ÏåÈ 35,000 ê˛yÜ˛y–

ú˛ƒy!ü!° ˆ˛õö¢ ÏöÓ˚ § ÏÓ≈yFã˛ §#üy !öô≈yÓ˚î Ü˛Ó˚y • ÏÎ˚ ÏåÈ 21,000 ê˛yÜ˛y–

~ˆÏ«˛ˆÏe §Ç!Ÿ’‹T ˆê˛ΔçyÓ˚# Ü˛°Ü˛yï˛yÓ˚ ˆ«˛ˆÏe ÓƒyB˛ ~•z ˆ˛õö¢ö ≤Ãòyö Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏÓö–

01.01.06 ï˛y!Ó˚ ÏáÓ˚ ˛õÓ˚ ÎÑyÓ˚y xÓ§Ó˚ @ˇÃ•î Ü˛ ÏÓ˚ ÏåÈö É [G.O. No. 201F (Pen) date 25.02.09]

01.01.06ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ ˛õ ÏÓ˚ ÎÑyÓ˚y xÓ§Ó˚ @ˇÃ•î Ü˛ ÏÓ˚ ÏåÈö ïÑ y ÏòÓ˚ ˆ«˛ Ïe ˆÓ˚y˛õy Ó˚&°§ ’09 xö%§y ÏÓ˚ ˆÓï˛ö !öô≈yÓ˚î Ü˛ ÏÓ˚ A.G. (A & E)

òÆ ÏÓ˚ ˛õyë˛y Ïï˛ • ÏÓ– A.G.Ó˚ xö%ˆÏüyòˆÏöÓ˚ ˛õÓ˚ Ü˛ü≈ã˛yÓ˚# Ó!ô≈ï˛ •yˆÏÓ˚ ˆ˛õö¢ö ˛õyˆÏÓö–

01.01.06-~Ó˚ ˛õÓ˚ xÓ§Ó˚ @ˇÃ•î Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ˆÏã˛ö ~üö Ü˛ü≈ã˛yÓ˚#Ó˚y @ˇÃƒyã%˛•z!ê˛†Ü˛ü%ˆÏê˛¢ö xÓ ˆ˛õö¢ö ÓˆÏÜ˛Î˚y ˛õyˆÏÓö– ˛õ!Ó˚Ó!ï≈˛ï˛ !•§yÓ

!öˆÏ¡¨y_´ ˛õk˛!ï˛ˆÏï˛ Ü˛Ó˚y ˆÎˆÏï˛ ˛õyˆÏÓ˚–

Statement showing revised calculation of Pension/Gratuity/Commutation (Pension of Shri/Smt._______________ Ex. (designation) who retired on arisen out of fixation of pay in terms of W. B. Services(ROPA) Rules, 09.


1. Basic Pay as on Band Pay Rs.+Grade Pay Rs.Total Rs. (a)

2. Calculation of Pension :(a) × qualifying service × 2

100 × 33 = Rs. _________ (b)

3. Calculation of Gratuity :(a) × qualifying service × 2

4Rs. _________

4. Less (–) Gratuity already paid = Rs. _________[G.P.O No. _________ dt. ________ ]

5. Gratuity payable : Rs. _________

6. Commutation of Pension : Rs. _________40% of (b) =

7. Less (–) Amount already Commuted = Rs. _________

8. Further Commutation entitled : Rs. _________ (c)

9. Commuted value of pension = (c) × 8.194 × 12 = Rs.

10. Calculation of family pension at enhanced rate.(i) normal rate × 2 = 30% of (a) × 2 = Rs. _________(ii) 1–2 of (a) = Rs. _________(iii) Super annuation pension = (b)

As Rs. *_____ is less smt./Shri is entitled to family pension @ Rs. _____ p.m. upto ...... & thereafter @Rs. 30/- of (a) till her/his death or remarriage whichever is earlier.

* (i) (ii) (iii)ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ üˆÏôƒ Îy Ü˛ü–

ˆ˛õö¢ö†ú˛ƒy!ü!° ˆ˛õö¢ö†Ü˛ü%ˆÏê˛¢ö xÓ ˆ˛õö¢ˆÏöÓ˚ Ü˛yàç A.G. W.B.ÈÙÈ~ ˆÎ ÓÎ˚y Ïö ˛õyë˛y Ïöy ˆÎ Ïï˛ ˛õy ÏÓ˚ÈÙÙÙÈ

GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGALOFFICE OF THE ...................

Memo No. ................... Date .......................

The Principal Accountant General (A & E)West Bengal Treasury Buildings.Kolkata

Sir

Sub. : Revision of Pensionary benifits of Shri/Smt. .................ex. (designation) who retired on ....................

The date of birth of Shri/Smt. __________ is __________ . On attaining age of superannation he/she wasreleased from normal duties on __________ (A.N.). Accordingly his/her pensionary benefits were released underP.P.O. No. __________ dated __________ & G.P.O. No. __________ dated. __________ .

Now, with the implementation of West Bengal Services (Ropa) Rules ’09 his/her pay has been fixed notionallyat Rs. __________ w.e.f. __________ .

GOVERNMENT ORDER 69

In terms of G.O. No. 201F (Pen.) dated 25.02.09 he/she is entitled to revised pensionary benefits as percalculation enclosed.

Encl. :(1) Service book of Shri/Smt. __________ (2) Single comprehensive form. (3) Statement showing Calculation

of revised pensionary benefits. (4) application for commutation of pension (in duplicate), (5) nomination for LifeTime Arrear of pension (6) Notional pay fixation Certificate are sent herewith for issurance of necessary paymentorders from your and.

Receipt of the documents may kindly be acknowledge.

Yours faithfully(Designation of Head of Officer)

Copy forwarded for information to Shri/Smt. ____________________

Designation of Head of Office.

ROPA Rules ’09 Ü˛yÎ≈Ü˛Ó •ÄÎyÓ §y ÏÌ §y ÏÌ ˛õö¢ ÏöÓ «˛ Ïe Î =Ó&c˛õ)î≈ õ!ÓÓï≈ ö â Ïê˛ ÏåÈ ï˛y •° Qualifying ServiceÈÙÈ~Ó

§#üy 33 ÏÌ ÏÜ˛ Ü˛!ü ÏÎ˚ 20 Ü˛Ó˚y • ÏÎ˚ ÏåÈ– ~•z !öÎ˚ü 23.2.09 ~ÓÇ õÓ˚Óï≈˛# §ü ÏÎ˚ ÎÑyÓ˚y xÓ§Ó˚ @ˇÃ•î Ü˛Ó˚ ÏÓö ïÑ˛y ÏòÓ˚ «˛ Ïe•z ≤Ã ÏÎyçƒ

• ÏÓ– xÌ≈yÍ 23.2.09 ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ ˛õÓ˚Óï≈˛# §ü ÏÎ˚ ÎÑyÓ˚y xÓ§Ó˚ @ˇÃ•î Ü˛Ó˚ ÏÓö ïÑ˛y ÏòÓ˚ ˆ«˛ Ïe ˆ˛õö Ï¢ ÏöÓ˚ !•§yÓ !öÎ˚ü • ÏÓ É

Last Pay × Qualifying service × 50100 × 20

ˆ˛õö¢ö†ú˛ƒy!ü!° ˛õö¢ ÏöÓ «˛ Ïe =Ó&c˛õ)î≈ §Ç ÏÎyçö •° ˛õö¢öyÓ†ú˛ƒy!ü!° ˛õö¢öy ÏÓ ÓÎ§ Ó,!k˛Ó §y ÏÌ §y ÏÌ x!ï˛!Ó_´

ˆ˛õö¢ö ≤Ãòyö– ~•z x!ï˛!Ó˚_´ ˆ˛õö¢ö ≤ÃòyˆÏöÓ˚ •yÓ˚–

ˆ˛õö¢öyÓ˚†ú˛ƒy!ü!° ˆ˛õö¢öyˆÏÓ˚Ó˚ ÓÎ˚§ x!ï˛!Ó˚_´ ˆ˛õö¢ˆÏöÓ˚ ˛õ!Ó˚üyî

80 ÓåÈˆÏÓ˚Ó˚ ˆÓ¢# 85 ÓåÈˆÏÓ˚Ó˚ Ü˛ü 20%




100 ÓåÈ ÏÓ˚Ó˚ ˆÓ¢# 100%

@ˇÃyã% ƒ•z!ê˛Ó˚ § ÏÓ≈yFã˛ §#üy É @ˇÃyã% ƒ•z!ê˛Ó˚ § ÏÓ≈yFã˛ §#üy 2,50,000 ˆÌˆÏÜ˛ Ó,!k˛ Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ 6,00,000 ê˛yÜ˛y Ü˛Ó˚y •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ–

Ü˛ü% Ïê˛¢ ÏöÓ˚ •yÓ˚ É 23.02.09 ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ ˛õÓ˚Óï≈˛# §ü ÏÎ˚ ÎyÓ˚y xÓ§Ó˚ @ˇÃ•î Ü˛Ó˚ ÏÓö ïÑ˛y ÏòÓ˚ ˆ«˛ Ïe Ü˛ü% Ïê˛¢ ÏöÓ˚ •yÓ˚ • ÏÓ É

60 ÓåÈÓ˚ ÓÎ˚ˆÏ§ xÓ§Ó˚ @ˇÃ•î Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏ° 40% of Pension × 8.194 × 12 = Rs.

62 ÓåÈÓ˚ ÓÎ˚ˆÏ§ xÓ§Ó˚ @ˇÃ•î Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏ° 40% of Pension × 7.982 × 12 = Rs.

!ã˛!Ü˛Í§y û˛yï˛y É xÓ§Ó˚≤ÃyÆ Ü˛ü≈ã˛yÓ˚#Ó˚y 01.04.09 ˆÌ ÏÜ˛– 300 ê˛yÜ˛y •y ÏÓ˚ !ã˛!Ü˛Í§y û˛yï˛y ˛õy ÏÓö–

!í˛Î˚yÓ˚ Ïö§ !Ó˚!°ú˛ É ˆ˛õö¢öyÓ˚†ú˛ƒy!ü!° ˆ˛õö¢öyÓ˚ ÏòÓ˚ !í˛Î˚yÓ˚ Ïö§ !Ó˚!° Ïú˛Ó˚ •yÓ˚ É

01.04.08 ˆÌˆÏÜ˛ 31.05.08 2%

01.06.08 ˆÌˆÏÜ˛ 31.10.08 6%

01.11.08 ˆÌˆÏÜ˛ 28.02.2009 9%

01.03.09 ˆÌˆÏÜ˛ 31.02.09 12%

01.04.09ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ ˛õÓ˚Óï≈˛# §üˆÏÎ˚ 16%

xÌ≈yÍ 01.04.09 ˆÌˆÏÜ˛ ˆ˛õö¢ö†ú˛ƒy!ü!° ˆ˛õö¢ˆÏöÓ˚ ö)ƒöï˛ü ˛õ!Ó˚üyî ÈÙÙÙÈ


ü)° ˆ˛õö¢ö†ú˛ƒy!ü!° ˆ˛õö¢ö 3300/-+

!í˛Î˚yÓ˚ Ïö§ !Ó˚!°ú˛ @ 16% 528/-+

!ã˛!Ü˛Í§yû˛yï˛y 300/-

ˆüyê˛ 4128/-

§Ç ÏÎyçö#

!Ó£ÏÎ˚ É Pay Fixation

ã˛ï% Ì≈ ˆÓï˛ö Ü˛!ü¢ ÏöÓ˚ §% õy!Ó˚ Ï¢Ó˚ !û˛!_ Ïï˛ ˆÓ¢ !Ü˛å%È cadre-~Ó˚ ü)° ˆÓï˛ö 01.01.96 ˆÌ ÏÜ˛ ˛õ!Ó˚Ó!ï≈˛ï˛ • ÏÎ˚ ÏåÈ– ü)°

ˆÓï˛ˆÏöÓ˚ ~•z ˛õ!Ó˚Óï≈˛ˆÏöÓ˚ §yˆÏÌ §yˆÏÌ CAS ~ÓÇ MCAS xö%§y ÏÓ˚ 1st. 2nd ~ÓÇ 3rd higher scale ÈÙÈ=!°Ó˚ ˛õ!Ó˚Ó!ï≈ ï˛ • ÏÎ˚ ÏåÈ

Ó Ï° àîƒ Ü˛Ó˚ Ïï˛ • ÏÓ xÌ≈yÍ 01.01.96 §y Ï°Ó˚ ˛õ) ÏÓ≈ ˆÎ Cadre ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ ˆÓï˛öe´ü !åÈ° 7 ï˛y ÏòÓ˚ 1st, 2nd ~ÓÇ 3rd higher scale

!åÈ° ÎÌye´ Ïü 8, 9 ~ÓÇ 10– ~áö üˆÏö Ü˛!Ó˚ 01.01.09 ˆÌ ÏÜ˛ 7 öÇ ˆÓï˛öe´ü ˛õ!Ó˚Ó!ï≈˛ï˛ •ˆÏÎ˚ 9 öÇ • ÏÎ˚ ÏåÈ– Ü˛y Ïç•z 01.01.96

ˆÌ ÏÜ˛ ~•z Cadre ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ Ü˛ü≈ã˛yÓ˚#ˆÏòÓ˚ 1st, 2nd ~ÓÇ 3rd higher scale • ÏÓ ÎÌye´ Ïü 10, 11 ~ÓÇ 12–

01.01.96 ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ ˛õÓ˚Óï≈˛# §ü ÏÎ˚ ÎÑyÓ˚y xÓ§Ó˚ @ˇÃ•î Ü˛ ÏÓ˚ ÏåÈö ïÑ˛y ÏòÓ˚ ˆ«˛ Ïe ~•z ˛õ!Ó˚Ó!ï≈˛ï˛ ˆÓï˛ ÏöÓ˚ !û˛!_ Ïï˛ Pay Fixation

Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ Pension, Gratuity, Commuted Value of Pension ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ çöƒ Service book §• A.G.W.B.ÙÈ~ ≤Ã ÏÎ˚yçö#Î˚ Ü˛yàç

˛õyë˛yˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ ~ÓÇ A.G.ÈÙÈÓ˚ xö% Ïüyò ÏöÓ˚ !û˛!_ Ïï˛ xÓ§Ó˚Ü˛y°#ö §% ÏÎyàÈÙÈ§%!Óôy Ó ÏÜ˛Î˚y ˛≤Ãòyö Ü˛Ó˚y Îy ÏÓ–

!Ó£ÏÎ É Family Pensionfl∫yü#ÈÙÈflf# í zû˛ ÏÎ˚•z §Ó˚Ü˛yÓ˚# Ü˛ü≈ã˛yÓ˚# • Ï° ïÑ y ÏòÓ˚ ü,ï% ƒÓ˚ ˛õÓ˚ ïÑ y ÏòÓ˚ ˛õ%eÈÙÈÜ˛öƒyÓ˚y 2!ê˛ ˛õy!Ó˚Óy!Ó˚Ü˛ ˆ˛õö§ö ˆ˛õˆÏÎ˚ ÌyˆÏÜ˛ö–

xÌ≈òÆ ÏÓ˚Ó˚ xy Ïò¢öyüyÎ˚ [No. 838F(Pen) dated 16.12.08] ~•z ≤Ãy Ï õƒÓ˚ |ôù≈§#üy Ó,!k˛ Ü˛Ó˚y • ÏÎ˚ ÏåÈ– ~•z xy Ïò¢öyüy

xö%§y ÏÓ˚ ÈÙÙÙÈ

1– Ó!ô≈ï˛ •y ÏÓ˚ Family Pension ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ ˆ«˛ˆÏe |ôù≈§#üy 200 ˆÌ ÏÜ˛ ˆÌ ÏÜ˛ Ó,!k˛ Ü˛ ÏÓ˚ 5,640 ê˛yÜ˛y ~ÓÇ

2– §yôyÓ˚î •y ÏÓ˚ Family Pension ~Ó˚ í zôù≈§#üy 1000 Ó,!k˛ Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ 3,030 ê˛yÜ˛y Ü˛Ó˚y • ÏÎ˚ ÏåÈ–

~•z xy Ïò¢ öyüyÎ˚ 01.04.97 ˆÌ ÏÜ˛ Ü˛yÎ≈Ü˛Ó˚ Ü˛Ó˚y • ÏÎ˚ ÏåÈ–

Adhoc Family PensionerÈÙÈˆòÓ˚ x!ÓÓy!•ï˛y†!ÓÓy• !Ó!FåÈß¨y†!ÓôÓy Ü˛öƒyÓ˚ ˆ«˛ Ïe adhoc-family pension ≤Ãòy ÏöÓ˚

§%ˆÏÎyà–

xÌ≈òÆ ÏÓ˚Ó˚ xy Ïò¢ öyüy [No. 6153-F dated 13.8.81] xö%§y ÏÓ˚ 01.04.65 ÈÙÈÓ˚ õ) ÏÓ≈ Î§Ó Ó˚yçƒ §Ó˚Ü˛yÓ˚# Ü˛ü≈ã˛yÓ˚# xÓ§Ó˚

@ˇÃ•î Ü˛ ÏÓ ÏåÈö ~ÓÇ õÓÓï≈ # §ü ÏÎ ≤ÃÎyï˛ • ÏÎ ÏåÈö ïÑ y ÏòÓ õ!ÓÓyÓ Adhoc family Pension ˛õ ÏÎ Ìy ÏÜ˛ö– xÌ≈ òÆ ÏÓÓ xy Ïò¢öyüy

[No. 740-F dated 12.11.08] xö%§y ÏÓ˚ Adhoc family pensioner ÏòÓ˚ x!ÓÓy!•ï˛ !ÓôÓyñ !ÓÓy• !Ó!FåÈß¨y Ü˛öƒy Îy ÏòÓ˚ üy!§Ü˛

xyÎ˚ 3,600 ê˛yÜ˛yÓ˚ ö# Ïã˛ ïÑ˛yÓ˚ xyç#Óö†˛õ%öÓ˚yÎ˚ !ÓÓy• öy Ü˛Ó˚y ˛õÎ≈hsˇ adhoc family pension ˛õyˆÏÓö–

~ˆÏ«˛ˆÏe §Ç!Ÿ’‹T Annex-X ~Ó˚ formas xö%§yˆÏÓ˚ ˆÎ Ü˛ï,≈˛˛õ«˛ adhoc family pension xö% Ïüyòö Ü˛ ÏÓ˚ ÏåÈöñ ï˛ÑyÓ˚ !öÜ˛ê˛

xy ÏÓòö Ü˛Ó˚y Ïï˛ • ÏÓ ~ÓÇ ~•z xy ÏÓò ÏöÓ˚ §y ÏÌ Annex-Y xö%§y ÏÓ˚ ˆÜ˛w#Î˚†Ó˚yçƒ §Ó˚Ü˛y ÏÓ˚Ó˚ Group A officer/Gazetted

officer ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ Certificate §ÇÎ%_´ Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ– ~•z xyˆÏÓòˆÏöÓ˚ í˛z˛õÓ˚ !û˛!_ Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ §Ç!Ÿ’‹T Ü˛ï,≈˛˛õˆÏ«˛Ó˚ ˛õ«˛ ˆÌˆÏÜ˛ adhoc family

pension xö% Ïüyòö Ü˛Ó˚yÓ˚ çöƒ ≤Ã ÏÎ˚yçö#Î˚ Ü˛yàç˛õe Accountant General (AE) West Bengal-~Ó˚ òÆ ÏÓ˚ õyë˛y Ïï˛ • ÏÓ ~ÓÇ

A.G.ÈÙÈÓ˚ xö% Ïüyò ÏöÓ˚ ˛õÓ˚ ≤Ãy˛õÜ˛ family pension ˛˛õyˆÏÓö–

~•z xy Ïò¢öyüy 03.10.08 ˆÌˆÏÜ˛ Ü˛yÎ≈Ü˛Ó˚ •ˆÏÓ– Annex-X ~ÓÇ Annex-X ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ ÓÎ˚yö !ö Ï¡¨ ˆòÄÎ˚y •°–

GOVERNMENT ORDER 71

ANNEXURE-X

Form of application for Adhoc family pension to be submitted by the unmarried/widowed/divorced daughterof an Adhoc family pension holder.

1. Name of the unmarried/widowed/divorceddaughter of the Adhoc family pension holders :

2. Age :3. (i) Present postal address :

(ii) Permanent postal address :4. (i) Name of father :

(ii) Name of mother :5. Date of death of the adhoc family pensioner

(an attested copy of the death certificate is tobe submitted) :

6. G.O. No. and date in which adhoc family :pension was sanctioned to the pensioner :

7. (i) P.P.O. No. :(a copy of the P.P.O. is to be submitted)(ii) Name of the P.P.O. issuing authority :(iii) Special Seal Authority and No. and date :as issued by the Accountant GeneralWest Bengal where P.P.O. issuing authorityis other than the Accountant General, West Bengal

8. Name of Pension Disbursing Authority :9. Name of the Public Sector Bank/Treasury from

which payment of adhoc family pension is desired :

GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGALFINANCE DEPARTMENT

AUDIT BRANCH

No. 8435-F (MED) Date: 29-08-2011NOTIFICATION

The existing and retired State Government employees are getting the benefits of the West Bengal HealthScheme, 2008 w.e.f 01-06-2009 and enrolment under the Scheme was open up to 31-12-2010. Now the Governoris pleased to order that the existing and retired Government employees who have not yet enrolled their namesunder the Health Scheme may be allowed to enroll their names during the period from 01-09-2011 to 31-03-2012 following provisions of the Scheme.

2. The existing and retired Government employees who are not enrolling their names under the WestBengal Health Scheme, 2008 by 31-03-2012 shall not be eligible to get the benefits of the Scheme infuture.

3. New entrants into Government service shall, however, be allowed to exercise option and completeenrolment under the Scheme within two years of their appointment in Government Service.

4. An existing or retired employee enrolled under the West Bengal Health Scheme, 2008 shall not beeligible to be enrolled again if he/ she opts out of the Scheme for whatever reason.

By order of the Governor,Sd/-

(C.M Bachhawat)Principal Secretary to the

Government of West Bengal



UNIVERSITY BRANCHBIKASH BHAVAN, (6TH FLOOR),

BIDHANNAGAR, KOLKATA - 700 091

No. 798(14)-Edn(U)/1U(C)-53/11 Date : 13.10.2011

From : Sri S.C. Tewary, IASPrincipal Secretary to the Government of West Bengal,

To : The Vice-Chancellor,..................................................................................University

Sub. : Incorporation of provisions in the Statutes of the University to prevent violation of rules,regulation relating to conducting examinations, checking answer scripts etc..

Sir / Madam,

It has been felt by the State Government in the Higher Education Department that a system should beintroduced by each and every University to monitor conduct of examinations in its affiliating colleges / institutionsand to take preventive measures for violation of rules, regulations relating to conducting examinations, checkinganswer scripts etc. Such system should include measures for taking punitive action against the persons foundresponsible for (i) violation of regulations relating to conduct of examination, checking answer script etc.(ii) refusal of examination related assignments, (iii) failure to check scripts in time, (iv) loss of answer scripts dueto negligence, (v) refusal to carry out the order of horities and (vi) negligence in discharging duties andresponsibilities assigned to teachers as well as non-teaching employees.

I am, therefore, to request you to introduce the system and insert legal provisions in the Statutes / Ordinanceof the University for adopting the measures as early as possible.

I am to request you further that after introducing the system, the concerned officers of the University as wellas the Principals of all affiliating colleges / institutions should be instructed to conduct meeting with all theteachers and concerned non-teaching employees to appraise them about the system adopted by the Universityand corresponding statutes, regulations and ordinances which should be complied with.

Action taken in this regard may be intimated in due course.

Yours faithfully,Sd/-

S.C. TewaryPrincipal Secretary

to the Government of West Bengal

No. 798(14)71 (2)-Edn(U)/1U(C)-53/11 Date : 13.10.2011

Copy forwarded for information to:1. Chairman, West Bengal State Council of Higher Education2. Director of Public Instructions, West Bengal. He is requested to send suitable circular to all colleges.

Sd/-Joint Secretary

to the Joint Secretary of West Bengal

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EDUCATION DIRECTORATEGOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL

BIKASH BHAVAN, SALT LAKE, KOLKATA-700091

Memo No: 422-PTT Date: 17/10/2011

ToThe Principal/Officer-in-Charge

From:Director of Public InstructionEducation DirectorateGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt LakeKolkata-700091

Sub : Submission of papers for approval and claim of remuneration for Part-Time Teachers for theacademic session 2011-12 as per G.O. No.926 Edn(A) dated 21/09/2010 to this directorate on orbefore 30/11/2011.

The undersigned is directed to circulate the information that the college authority have to submit the papersfor approval and claim of remuneration for Part-Time Teachers for the academic session 2011-12 as per G.O.No.926 Edn(A) dated 21/09/2010 to this directorate on or before 30/11/2011 positively in the prescribed formatenclosed herewith.

Sd/-For Director of Public Instruction

Enclosure

Sub. : Approval of Part-time teachers(PTTs) for Govt. colleges in the State for the Academic Session 2011-12.

In continuation of Department’s G.O. No. 926-Edn(A) dated 21.09.2010 the undersigned is directed to saythat the following guidelines have to followed by the college authorities for engagement of part-time teachers(PTTs)of the State Aided Non-Government Colleges.

1. The college authority will submit the particulars as per Format-I, II & III (enclosed) in the first phase toget candidate-wise approval for PTTs from the Department .

The college authority should submit◆ The required information in the form of hard copy (paper documents) as well as soft copy (CD) as per

enclosed Format (l-III) (in Excel 2003 format only). All the documents should be submitted to thisDirectorate (One Set at Receiving Section and one set at the Room No. 819) within 30/11/2011( Strictly).

◆ Photo copy of the G.O. of approval of the PTTs for the academic session 2010-11 attested by the Principal/Officer-in-charge of the concerned college.

◆ In case of any rectification in the G.O. previously issued for the academic session 2010-11, the collegeauthority may apply herewith with proper supporting documents.

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FORMAT-III(For approval of PTTs)

DECLARATION FROM PART-TIME TEACHER

1. I, ........................................................................................................................, hereby declare that Iam not engaged in any other assignment including Contractual Whole Time/ Para teacher etc. elsewhereand at present I have been serving at................................................................................................................college as a part-time teacherfrom ........................................................................

The declaration made above by me is absolutely true. If any discrepancies arises in future regarding mydeclaration my engagement in the present assignment in this college as a part-time teacher shall liable to becanceled.

Date:. ...................................................Place:. Signature of Part-Time Teacher

Signature & SealPrincipal /Offlcer-in-charge

(the college from which proposal forwarded)

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ALL INDIA FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE TEACHERS’ ORGANISATION

REPORT OF THE GENERAL SECRETARY (Ed) - ADOPTED

BY THE 26TH STATUTORY CONFERENCE, KANYAKUMARI, TAMILNADU

Respected President, Delegates and Friends, I take great pleasure in extending a very hearty and warm welcome to all of you to this congregation of

teachers of higher education sector from all over India. We have assembled at this historic moment at Kanyakumari, the beautiful sea shore town, located at the

southernmost tip of India overlooking the confluence of the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean.It is a very memorable and proud moment to be in Kanyakumari, the blessed land, which is the daily witness tothe awesome majesty of nature, a place sanctified by the penance of Swami Vivekananda, a living testimony tothe vibrancy of the composite culture of this country and a mother who gave us some of our finest patriots likeP.Jeevanandan. I congratulate the MUTA for having thoughtfully chosen this venue for the national meeting ofthe yeomen of higher education in this district which was one of the first to achieve not only mere functionalliteracy but also excellent higher education.

I extend most sincere thanks to MUTA for its invite to the entire AIFUCTO fraternity to picturesqueKanyakumari.

Remembering Vivekananda

At the very beginning of my presentation, I remember the clarion call of Swami Vivekananda, the greatspiritual leader and humanist, who attained enlightenment after deep meditation on the Vivekananda Rock ofKanyakumari: He reminded us-

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Swamiji said that India needs education for everybody, and more for the downtrodden, the backward peopleof India. He declared- if backward people did not come to receive education, education should be taken to them.This is the concept of inclusive education .The AIFUCTO, conscious of the mandate before it from the revered Yogiis committed to put all its might in this cause and our Conference seminar is rightly focussed.

Homage to the departed leaders and members

An AIFUCTO Conference commences with the poignant duty of saluting our leaders who were with us for theearlier conference, who having run the race well are gone to eternal rest.

At the outset I pay our deepest homage to our leaders and members who have left us this year. We have lostthe great leaders including Prof.Arun Dixit and Prof, Sambhaji Jadav. We record our deep sense of condolence attheir passing away and remember the great services they rendered to our Federation.

Perspective of the 26th Statutory Conference

The issues we discussed and the movement resolution we adopted in Jalgaon Conference have been addressedin the current year with all earnestness. We are very happy and proud that the long standing problems of nonNET/SLET teachers of Maharashtra have been resolved after a determined and strong united movement launchedby MFUCTO and supported by the AIFUCTO. Secretary, AIFUCTO declared in Jalgaon that all efforts would bemade to solve this decade old problem before the next AIFUCTO Conference. The splendid coordination betweenthe state federation and the central leadership will remain written in golden letters and provide guidance to theentire teachers’ movement of our country.

The AIFUCTO Conferences occupy a distinctly important position in the teachers’ movement in our country.


A national federation representing more than 5 lacs teachers has the historical duty and responsibility to take astock of the developments since the last Conference, analyse them and chalk out the agenda for the coming days.Like all previous occasions, the last year unfolded many challenges; some of them have been successfully negotiatedwhile some others are being pursued. The issues we faced included our professional demands including theimplementation of pay scales in states, payment of arrears by the central and state govts, rectification in anomaliesin pay scales notification and UGC regulations. Some other important matters related to the grim struggle tosolve decade old problem of thousands of teachers of Maharshtra and extension of the RC/OC dates. Besides allthese professional issues we took great care in ensuring effective participation in national forums to oppose antieducation bills and build up joint movements to oppose PFRDA bill.

INTERNATIONAL SCENARIO

Political

The US played the gendarme of the world, made brazen intervention in the domestic affairs of many countries,and thus posed great threat to the sovereignty of countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and others. The policiespursued by the USA and its allies clearly betray the imperialist design to retain global hegemony. However, it isbeing increasingly admitted in the world community that the voices of countries like India, South Africa, Braziland China can no longer be ignored. There is intense demand for the reconstitution of international forums likethe Security Council with permanent membership for nations like India. The AIFUCTO stresses the need forcollective action by the developing countries to frustrate economic and political hegemony of imperialist Northand strengthen south-south cooperation to add vigour to the fight against economic underdevelopment,unemployment, hunger and squalor.

Palestinian Statehood

Notwithstanding the earlier promises made by the US President in UNO supporting statehood to the Palestine,the USA reneged on it , in complete violation of UN Resolution 181 that provided for the creation of an independentPalestine state. This affirms the belief that the US lobby will continue its policy of denial to the Palestinians oftheir fundamental right to statehood. We demand that the UNO resolution on the statehood be implementedimmediately and we urge our members to show solidarity with the international campaign for the cause.

Plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka

The AIFUCTO noted with great concern that the UN panel formed to assess the plight of Tamils in Sri Lankafound credible the allegations of killing of civilians through widespread shelling of hospitals, denial of humanitarianassistance to the sick and the dying, human rights violations including torture, inflicted by the RajapaksheGovernment. The panel has concluded that the government’s notion of accountability is not in accordance withinternational standards. Human rights violations anywhere are a matter of great concern and the AIFUCTO hopesthe IDPs would soon begin to live in complete dignity and on an equal footing with the majority, in a land that isundeniably and historically theirs.

Terrorism- International

Terrorism is a menace to peace and development and nullifies at one go all the precious achievements ofmankind. It is a clear and unmistakable enemy of all forces striving to build up the unity of the working classacross borders, languages, religions and cultures. While strongly condemning all types of terrorism and itsmonstrosities inspired by mistaken and half-baked notions of religious ideology, parochial fervour and chauvinismof the first order, the rank and file of the AIFUCTO is also convinced that just like the Battle of Waterloo, this waragainst terrorism and fundamentalism is also fought and won in the premises of educational institutions.

World Economic Crisis

The western market economy has been tottering on its knees and has been limping from one crisis to anotherfrustrating hope that some miracle would retrieve it and put it back on the path of high growth. Instead, evidenceof more debacles is emerging and shaking the entire capitalist world. This is not surprising as all these countrieshave high levels of interdependence.

There are numerous maladies that plague the western world. To name a few of them would give an idea of

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the seriousness of the crises. The unemployment rate has touched 10 per cent; the countries like Greece andSweden have serious financial crises; increasing number of banks and financial companies have been piling upNon Performing Assets, raising serious questions on their viability. Since 2008, growth of world income hasslackened and the GDP of developed economies have been falling rather sharply; there are apprehensions thatthe world economy is heading towards another great depression like 1930s; and the world. is looking to India andChina as growth centres and the growth in world has almost disappeared .All these unmistakably establish thefact that the industrially advanced countries are in utter chaos and know little to get themselves out of the crises.A peculiar portend is that, unlike previous experiences, the prices of all goods have been rising. Business confidencehas taken a beating and the governments are clueless .The stock market has become extremely volatile andclearly has lost its sheen. However, this pressure instead of propelling governments to right action, has led toSome very damaging policy prescriptions like reducing govt. allocations for welfare measures. This would definitelyhurt the common man, damage the economy further and recovery would be even more difficult. Almost everyday more and more countries and financial bodies are getting downgraded. The mad rush for profit, the utterneglect of prudent financial principles, irresponsible corporate behaviour in social sector and crony capitalismhave brought the world economy to the brink of collapse.

World Wide Protest Against Corporate Greed and Unholy Alliance

The public wrath against greedy corporate sectors, banks, financial institutions and corporate sector hasnow snowballed into a formidable movement across the globe. The common man is disgusted with the workingof the unscrupulous business sector and has come onto the streets spontaneously to lodge protest against greed.The ongoing recession soaring unemployment, inflation ,threat of cut in welfare expenditure in the name ofausterity have made the common man extremely vulnerable. The unholy nexus between the corporate sector,politicians and bureaucrats have been playing havoc resulting in diversion of fund to the dominant coterie in allpossible manners only to make the govt. exchequer poorer and ultimately pass on the financial burden to thecommon man.

FISE ORGANISATIONAL ACTIVITIES

XVII Statutory Conference of World Federation of Teachers’ Unions( FISE)

XVII Statutory conference of World Federation of Teachers’ Unions ( FISE) was held at DHAKA , the capitalof the peoples republic of Bangladesh, from 26 to 28, December, 2010. It was hosted by National Academy ofEducation Management (NAEM),Ministry of education, Government of Bangladesh and sponsored by BangladeshUniversity College Teachers Association (BUCTA) Bangladesh Teachers Association (BTA) , and BangladeshTechnical Teachers Association (BTTA) On the eve of the conference an International seminar on ‘TeachingProfession in the age of Information Communication Technology’ was held during this period . His ExcellencyHon’ble Rashtrapati ( President) of the peoples republic of Bangladesh, Mr. Md. Zillur Rahman has inauguratedthe conference on 26th December, 2010.

A 15 member delegation of All India Federation of University and College Teacher’ Organisations participatedin the conference.

Annual Conference of World Federation of Teachers’ Unions( FISE) XVII Statutory conference of WorldFederation of Teachers’ Unions ( FISE) held at DHAKA , decided to hold every years’ Administrative committeemeeting as Annual conference of FISE. This year it was held at Colombo at the invitation of Ceylon ServiceTeachers Union CSTU on 15-16 October. On the eve of the conference an International seminar on ‘Socialresponsibility of education ‘A 10 member delegation of All India Federation of University and College Teacher’Organizations participated in the conference.

16th World Trade Union Congress 16th World Trade Union Congress, was held , April 6-9, at Athens, Greece.Congress was of great success because presence of large number of delegates from different countries andcontinents. More than 800 delegates attended the congress,. A good number teacher from Africa and Latin Americaattended the conference as a part of general trade unions. We could recognize some of them and are in processof establishing contacts directly with FISE. The leadership of FISE is represented by the General Secretary Prof.B.Vijay Kumar and Prof. Jahangir General Secretary , Bangladesh University College Teachers Association. Theconference elected New Presidential Council.


FISE Presidents’ visit to China; At the invitation of All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) FISE presidentDr Mahfuza Khanam visited Peoples Republic of china, as a part of delegation of World Federation of TradeUnions (WFTU), April, 2011.

100th Session of the International Labour Conference 100th Session of the International Labour Conferencewas held at Geneva , from 1st to 18th June,2011.This conference adopted a historic set of international standardsaimed at improving the working conditions of tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide. “the new ILOstandards set out that domestic workers around the world who care for families and households must have thesame basic labour rights as those available to other workers: reasonable hours of work, weekly rest of at least 24consecutive hours, a limit on in-kind payment and clear information on terms and conditions of employment, aswell as respect for fundamental principles and rights at work including freedom of association and the right tocollective bargaining.

FISE GS visit to Ethiopian Teachers Association (ETA) ETA is one of the biggest affiliate of FISE with amembership about 350,000 from all over Ethiopia. Teachers from primary to University are the members of ETA.ETA is the only organization in FISE who could make as a part of official delegation to every year ILO ConferenceTo Develop greater rapport with ETA, FISE General Secretary was on a visit to Ethiopia from September, 13 to19.ETA promised to hold, next years’ annual conference of FISE at Addis Ababa.

Bi annual conference of UNESCO; 36th Bi annual conference of UNESCO is to take place at Paris theheadquarters of UNESCO in November 2011. Bi annual conference of UNESCO is a special event for the academicworld, where in detailed discussions pertaining to Natural Sciences (Energy , Water , Ecology )Social Sciences(Human Rights, Peace, Gender), Culture (Diversity, Tolerance), Education (EFA , MDG, Higher Education) takesplace. FISE enjoys consultative status with UNESCO as such we shall able to send good delegation to the conferencethis year as well.

International Seminars on Social Responsibility of Higher Education. FISE planning to hold at Chittagong(Bangladesh) and Cuttack The sub themes of the seminar , are Higher Education—Economy, Infrastructure, Decentliving conditions, Higher Education—Governance, Law & Order, Democracy, The Seminar at Chittagong(Bangladesh) is to be held 22-24 December,2011. FISE appeals to all its affiliates and friendly associations/ unionsto see that good number delegates/observers participate in the seminar on self financing basis. Chittagong isalmost a second capital of Bangladesh and well connected by air. We can reach Chittagong by road / rail / riverfrom Kolkata. International Seminar on Social Responsibility of Higher Education at Cuttack on 28-29 January,2012

FISE Appealed to Observe the Following Days of Importance

‘International Mother Tongue Day’ is observed on 21st February, FISE appeals to all of our affiliates andfriendly associations to observe this day with all seriousness. Where the importance of mother tongue isdecreasing.

May Day Teachers should observe this day to identify themselves with the working class so that the workingand living conditions of all workers including that of teachers can be further improved.

World Literacy Day is observed on 8th September of every year. Teachers associations should form a strongnetwork of advocacy group for more investments in education, Library & Internet facilities for all people, improvingservice conditions of Teachers and propagating good practices for teachers so that world can attain EFA & MDGgoals .

World Teachers Day on 5th October World Teachers’ Day, held annually on 5 October since 1994,commemorates the anniversary of the signing in 1966 of the UNESCO/ILO Recommendation Concerning theStatus of Teachers.

World Science Day for Peace and Development is observed on 10th November of every year. The observancethis day has to be stressed so that the arms race may be stopped and helps to develop scientific temper.

Teachers Of the World (TOW) : FISE continued regular uninterrupted publication of magazine TOW for thelast ten years. FISE could enroll about 320 members as five year subscribers. We request all the activists ofAIFUCTO to enroll themselves as five year subscribers so that they can think globally and act locally. Finally asyou are aware AIFUCTO is the strongest limb of FISE, AIFUCTO shall play pro active role in strengthening FISE .

Concern for the Deteriorating World Environment and our Duty

We are concerned that the degradation of world environment has now assumed great proportion and the

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world climatic changes pose serious threat to the well being of mankind. The growing degree of pollution willresult in catastrophic results. We, the teachers, have a great duty to sensitize our students and fellow citizens tothe looming danger. We have referred to this issue a number of times and request our members to work for agreener earth.

National Scenario

Developments in India run parallel with the course of international developments. The capitalist mode ofproduction and distribution has been making the life of the common man increasingly miserable and his angeragainst the establishment is mounting. Nothing brings out the disconnect between the masses and the centralgovt, better than the affidavit filed by the Planning Commission before the apex court.

New Poverty Estimates and the PDS

The national poverty lines set therein by the Planning Commission, at Rs 32 and Rs 26 per capita per day forurban and rural areas respectively has sent shock waves all around. This cannot be accepted as the benchmarksto measure the extent of poverty in India. The estimates not only present an unreal picture of the number of poorand hungry people in our country but also pose seriously damaging policy implications. The AIFUCTO does notaccept the estimates and demands a re-look at the methodology adopted to arrive at such incredibly unrealisticresults.

We are worried as this estimate is to be linked to the basic entitlement of the people to various governmentwelfare schemes, notably access to food stuff.

The recent changes in the Public Distribution System have proved to be flawed and, by and large, failed toserve the interests of the poor.

The targeted public distribution system has done more harm than good by creating divisions even amongthe poor and has led to massive errors of exclusion. The experts have been discussing various schemes to make itmore inclusive by plugging loopholes. The AIFUCTO, whose members teach children hailing from families sorelydependent for their grains on the PDS, demands that, until a more efficient system is evolved, the universal PDSshould be reintroduced wherever it stands discontinued.

Indian Economy

Indian economy has been under strain for quite sometime now. The inflation is unabated and the foodinflation has assumed a serious proportion, touching almost 10 per cent. The disturbing part of the story ofinflation and government policy is that for several months when inflation was biting the economy and the poorwere reeling under it , it played passive spectator hoping that the problems would be solved on a self correctingmode. When it woke up and took belated measures, which proved to be very costly: the successive increases inREPO rate have made investment costly and would inevitably result in further fall in investment. The investmentGDP ratio, it is believed, would decline further. We have already experienced deterioration in the industrial growthrate. The fall in industrial growth rate has plummeted to a mere 3 per cent. By all indications, the economicscenario in the next fiscal will remain unsatisfactory, if not grim.

The recent downgrading of State Bank of India, the largest commercial bank of India with the reputation ofstrongest public sector bank enjoying highest capital asset ratio. We have now evidence of many internationalbanks falling apart and sending the financial sector into deep trouble. The statement by the rating agency thatsome of its assets are of dubious nature must be taken up by all with seriousness. Any major crisis in SBI will makeour economy extremely vulnerable as this is the commercial bank of the government. Other nationalised andprivate banks are far inferior to SBI and there is every possibility that the confidence of people inside and outsidethe country may be shaken. We believe the Indian banking system needs careful assessment and prudent guidance.The proposals to allow corporate sector set up banks, in sharp contrast to the Mrs Gandhi’s line of nationalisingbanks, should be shelved as the signal of downgrading of SBI must be honoured.

The stock market has been showing nervousness and remains volatile. The speculators have been very activeand the hard earned money of the people is in danger.

The Importance of State Funding

The AIFUCTO noted with great concern that in recent times, there is growing discussion in the developed


world to reduce or withdraw subsidies to combat fiscal deficits with the assertion that the recessionary phase isover. Needless to say that this is an incorrect perception and would lead to disastrous developments. Weunderstand that this is the reflection of the eagerness of Finance Capital lobby desperately trying to minimisethe role of the governments so that, in the guise of financial stability private sector can occupy the space vacatedby the Government.

Shifting our attention from the developed world to the developing world, the implications of governmentexpenditure are far more important as large segments of population of these countries are poor, deprived ofbasic education and health facilities, not to speak of quality services in both the vital domains. Further, due toglobalisation the developing countries are harshly exposed to macro economic instability and high inflation .Food prices have not only increased alarmingly but also show extreme resilience. The governments’ actions areconfined to occasional and hollow assurances on price control measures, which never bring about the promiseddeclining trend, and thus placing the population wholly at the mercy of providence.

In countries like India, suggestions take somewhat different form like increasing the role of private investorsin all key service sectors including health and education and relative dilution of public sector.

In the context of the proposed relative dilution of the role of state funding in education in a country like Indiaand giving more and more space to the private initiatives, various issues emerge. A look at the higher educationsector in India in the light of the ongoing debate to dilute the role of state funding of education coupled withgrowing privatisation and the consequent plight of a sizable and growing number of teachers outside themainstream appointments.

Admittedly, the organised sections, including teachers covered by UGC & AICTE and similar bodies in otherfields, have largely been able to maintain or enhance their capabilities through pay revisions and grant of dearnessallowances. A good number of them also enjoy many state subsidies not linked to the income levels.

In the higher education sector there has been very little increase in financial grants in real terms comparedto the need to maintain and enhance quality and inclusive education, which has now become more expensive.With the failure to allot more funds by the central and state govts, there is insignificant increase in number ofnew posts. In the official documents we find an elitist bias towards building up a handful of centres of excellence,showing little concern for the venerable institutions, both old and new, tottering on their knees with poorinfrastructure and diminishing teaching posts. In the place of regular teachers, lacs of ad hoc teachers are hiredfor shamefully low wages. While looking into the reasons for a large number of teachers not being allowed to dothe refresher and orientation courses for their CAS, the AIFUCTO noted that there are still great number ofcolleges with single faculty member departments. Though the matter was repeatedly brought to the notice ofthe governments, both the central and states, precious little is done.

Terrorist Attack in Delhi

The AIFUCTO condemns the terrorists attack in New Delhi High Court area on 7th September, 2011. Theheinous crime perpetrated by the terrorists took away innocent lives and injured many. This is a cowardly attackand reminds us of the necessity for constant vigil by the administration and the members of public. All the peopleof India have to stand united so that the scourge of terrorism is crushed. The govt. must identify the criminals andthe judiciary ensure speedy justice.

PFDRA Bill – AIFUCTO OPPOSITION

The AIFUCTO decided to oppose the deadly blow, dealt in the form of the Pension Fund Regulatory andDevelopment Authority Bill (PFRDA) which is just a part of the Neo-Liberal Reform. This Bill is injurious to all ouryoung teachers and also out most talented youngsters who are sought to be attracted to teaching by MHRDthrough pay revision.

Though the Bill is tabled only now, after repeated opposition from the Left and other parties, the CentralGovt. and the Govts in the states have started implementing the National Pension Scheme from 01-01-2004itself. Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura are the only states which have not introduced the new pension scheme.So, now, the Bill has been sent to the select Committee and may come back to the Parliament in the next session.

The new National Pension Scheme is nothing but privatisation of the pension funds. Pension has been acceptedas a social security measure and the retired employees have been assured of a definite and assured amount ofpension. It has been accepted as a terminal benefit and the right of the employees after their long innings in the

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govt. service. Every employee will know what he would get after his retirement and could plan his life on thatbasis. Pension is nothing but deferred payment.

But the new pension scheme is a contributory pension scheme in which every employee starts subscribingto the scheme right from his entering the service with an equal contribution from the employer. But this fund willbe invested by the pension fund managers in equity markets and the pension he gets would depend upon thereturns. He can’t be sure of what he would get and whether he would get anything at all. “There shall be noimplicit or explicit assurance of benefits; market based guaranteed mechanism to be purchased by the subscriber”.The world economy itself has collapsed under the weight of the collapse of the financial market.

So, pension, which has been termed as a social security measure is going to be converted into an insecureinstrument. The only people who would be happy are the private fund managers who would get enormousamount of workers’ money to be exploited. The fund managers appointed by the PFRDA will handle the fund notfor charity but for their own profit. Pension will be only the net amount after ensuring the profit of the fundmanagers. In the context of natural uncertainty of the market, fund managers are naturally expected to neutralisetheir risk first and then take care of the risk of the pensioners who actually supply capital to the fund managersthrough their life-time savings in pension fund.

The employees and teachers have to oppose the PFRDA Bill. It will be a big struggle. The ruling alliance andthe principal opposition are together in this attack on the working class. So the struggle will have to match it.Only a joint and relentless struggle of the entire working class can defeat the forces of globalization and theeconomic policies arising out of it. We have a duty to the younger generation. That is to bequeath to them whatall we have got and have enjoyed. That is why our National EC which met at Calcutta has decided to oppose theBill and to organize demonstrations against it. We should be ready for a bigger struggle in the days to come.There is now organized opposition to the scheme and our leaders have been participating in meetings, seminarsand demonstrations to oppose the Bill along with the trade unions and civil society.

Corruption and Nation Wide Protest

Commonwealth Games Scam

The Commonwealth games scam unearthed by CAG involved large scale misappropriation of money duringthe preparatory phase and conduct of the 2010 Commonwealth games held in New Delhi. The total value of thescam is estimated to be Rs.70,000 crore. The scams it involved politicians, bureaucrats and corporates. The scamis being probed by the CBI. The various contracts were manipulated by Central Minister Mr. Suresh Kalmadi andteam and allegedly misappropriated huge amounts in the process. Mr.Kalmadi has been accused of variousirregularities and is now under arrest

2G SCAM

The country was shocked to learn about the 2G spectrum scam. The scam involved officials in the governmentof India illegally undercharging mobile telephony companies for frequency allocation licenses, which they woulduse to create 2G subscriptions for cell phones in the year 2008. The shortfall between the money collected andthe money which the law mandated to be collected is Rs 1,76,379 crores.It is most disturbing that such hugeamount the exchequer lost due to the dishonest practice of the Minister concerned. In a country, where theGovt. is cash strapped the scam reveals the corrupt practices by a person no other than the Union TelecomMinister.

The Lack of Good Governance

Along with our countrymen we are extremely worried over the poor and deteriorating governance in India.Many concerned persons have pointed out the mounting problems of credibility of government official and allround disappointment at the worsening of the situation. Recently the Comptroller and Auditor General notedthat the quality of governance is below par and subject to severe criticism. The morale of civil servants is low. andbadly affecting the decision making. We demand the government should take immediate steps to restore themoral of civil servants and confidence of people in the efficacy of administration. A good governance is a sine quanon for the quality of public services affecting each and everybody.

It is important to note that a group of eminent citizens have recently expressed deep concern at the issue ofcorruption and interest of the nation. The group includes noted economists, industrialists, Members of Rajya


Sabha not attached to political parties, and social workers. The group lamented that common man’s life wasvitiated by corruption at every turn. The group strongly advocated for speedier environmental clearances, onlineauction of natural resources and so on. They emphasized such corrective actions to prevent discretionary andirregular practices. They also suggested appointment of more judges for an effective redress mechanism.

The group pointed out that the historic debate in our Parliament on Lokpal reinforced the inviolable primacyof the constitution and was an event of relief and reassurance to the vast and silent majority who constituteIndia’s core civil society.

The ongoing movements against the rampant corruption and the undisclosed amount of black money havecertainly gathered momentum and our members have duty and responsibility to join the movement and campaignfor the supremacy of the democratic norms having full faith on the Parliament. The real strength of our society isenshrined in our Constitution.

Anna Hazare’s Movement

The All India Federation of University and College Teachers’ Organizations expressed its solidarity with thenationwide movement against corruption in the country. The AIFUCTO condemned the attitude of the Govt. ofIndia in trying to muffle democratic rights of organizations to protest for genuine demands by arresting veteranGandhi an Anna Hazare and his team. The widespread support Anna’s movement has received in the aftermath ofhis arrest showed the people’s anger against corruption and against the Govt. which has been trying to shield andprotect the corrupt. So instead of trying to suppress the movements against corruption, the Govt. should bring inan effective Lokpal Bill which would enable the creation of an effective body to punish the corrupt. AIFUCTObelieves that a Lokpal cannot be a panacea whatever its form and content be unless effective steps are taken tobreak the unholy nexus between the corporate, bureaucracy and the politicians. So AIFUCTO appealed to theGovt. of India to unconditionally release Mr. Anna Hazare and permit him to stage peaceful protests withoutplacing unnecessary hurdles. AIFUCTO also highlighted the view that any move to bypass the Parliament and theparties in the opposition in bringing in a suitable legislation for a strong Lokpal would not augur well for thefuture of democracy in the country. The massive support to Sri Hazare at the Ramlila Ground was a strong signalto the Govt. and the political parties that the issue of corruption would not be tolerated any more. The AIFUCTOcongratulates Sri Hazare and demands strong Lokpal Bill in the winter session of the Parliament.We appeal to allpolitical parties to put the interest of the nation above all parochial political or personal gain.India is certainlypassing through a transitional phase and we believe our democratic principle will be held high.

However,the Anna Hazare movement has not pointed out that the root of the corruption lies in the neo-liberal economic policies.We believe that unless the economic policies are set in right mode it will be impossibleto root out corruption.

Earthquake in NE East India and Nepal

We are deeply shocked at the loss of life and property in the recent earth quake in North East and East Indiaand Nepal. We urge the Central and state govts. to take all steps to help the affected people and restore thenormalcy as early as possible.There should be repair of roads and buildings on war footing. The situation is stillunsatisfactory. The calamity once again proves the lack of preparedness to negotiate such disaster. The Governmentmust prepare a disaster management blueprint to help people in such events.

National Educational Scenario and AIFUCTO Actions

In the higher education sector, over the years, there have been appointments of teachers outside the domainof UGC/AICTE pay scales, variously known as contractual teachers, part timers, guest lecturers, state scale teachersand so on. It is a pity that they are Working for a pittance, that too with no security of service and retirementbenefits. Many of them are forced to agree to the regular breaks so that they cannot claim any pay scale or go tothe court of law. The AIFUCTO has repeatedly drawn attention of state and central governments to this graveissue. The problem has been compounded as in many states, mostly in private run institutions, teachers are beingappointed in who do not have requisite qualification only to pay them unbelievably poor pay and make profit. TheAIFUCTO hails the stand taken by the UGC that the payment to the qualified teachers should be guided by theaccepted pay scales. There must be more funds for state funded institutions and rigorous regulatory measuresfor the private ones. We are committed to take up the issue not only for the sake of the exploited teachers butalso for ensuring quality of education and well being of our nation, which are our cardinal principles. This year we

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instructed our affiliates to take actions so that the payment to the teachers of the categories must be equitableand the security of service is ensured.

We have been pointing out for some years that a large number pf posts are vacant and there are embargo issome states on new appointment. This is a very serious issue and on our insistence the HRD issued letter to thestate governments to take urgent steps to fill such posts.We is very unhappy that there is very little actions on thepart of the govts.

Appointment of Teachers outside UGC and AICTE Pay Scales

In the higher education sector, over the years, there have been appointments of teachers outside the domainof UGC/AICTE pay scales, variously known as contractual teachers, part timers, guest lecturers, state scale teachersand so on. It is a pity that they are working for a pittance, that too with no security of service and retirementbenefits. Many of them are forced to agree to the regular breaks so that they cannot claim any pay scale or go tothe court of law. The AIFUCTO has repeatedly drawn attention of state and central governments to this graveissue. The problem has been compounded in many states, quite routinely in most private run institutions, teachersare being appointed who do not have requisite qualification only to pay them unbelievably poor pay and makeprofit. It is a sad fact that some State governments too are guilty of this practice; no matter how strongly thehigher judiciary had tried to dissuade them. The AIFUCTO hails the stand taken by the UGC that the payment tothe qualified teachers should be guided by the accepted pay scales, and demands of all state Governments thatthey abandon backdoor appointments under the guise of ‘Guest Lecturer” Contractual teacher” and so on andthat hereafter all teacher appointments in our colleges and universities be made only on regular basis. Theremust be more funds for state funded institutions and rigorous regulatory measures for the private ones. We arecommitted to take up the issue not only for the sake of the exploited teachers but also for ensuring quality ofeducation and well being of our nation, which are our cardinal principles.

National Forum In Defence Of Education, March to Parliament on December 2, 2010

Thousands of people comprising of students, teachers, non-teaching employees and officers of schools,colleges & universities, youths, parents and activists of people’s science movements marched from Ramlila Maidanto Parliament Street in a rally raising issues related to education.

This rally was held after a national convention held on 13th August which formed a National Forum in Defenceof Education in Delhi.

The rally raised slogans criticizing the anti-people policies of UPA II Government and its neo-liberal ‘reform’agenda in the field of education and resolved to force the Central Government to accept the demands.

The rally was addressed by a large number of leaders of the participating organizations and leaders and MPs.Prof. James Williams, the President of the AIFUCTO was the president of the Presidium.Prof. Asok Barman, General Secretary AIFUCTO was the inaugural speaker. He criticised the recent initiatives

to bring basic changes in our educational structure and stressed the need for a united movement. The rally wasaddressed by a number of Members Of Parliament including; Basudev Acharya, M.Abani Roy; D Raja, I; BarunMukherjee.Sri Rajendran, General Secretary STFI pledged support to the initiative.

The speakers focused on the policies of the central government aimed at pushing centralization, privatisationand commercialisation of the education sector in the country which would undermine the goal of expansion,excellence and equity in education. They said the goal of expansion, excellence and equity can only be achievedthrough increased public spending based on a democratic education policy.

The speakers also criticised the government over the issue of corruption and said the amount of moneyinvolved is much more than what was required to meet the needs of providing equitable and quality education inthe country. They warned the government against ignoring the demands being made failing which the strugglewould be intensified in the coming days.

SUBMISSION TO PARLIAMENTARY SUB COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN UNIVERSITY BILL

On behalf of the AIFUCTO the President & General Secretary made a Submissions to the ParliamentaryStanding Committee on the Bill regarding the Entry and operation of Foreign Educational institutions in India

Our leaders pointed out that the outlines of the social philosophy which should govern all our institutionseducational as well as economic and political is indicated in the preamble of our Constitution’. Our constitutionenvisages an engagement in a quest for democracy through the realization of justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.Any educational policy should be based on the principles enshrined in our constitution. The aim of education is


not only the provision of knowledge and skills but also the inculcation of social and constitutional values in theyounger generation.

Any discussion of the policies in education should take note of the ground realities in the Indian society. Indiais one country in which historically a large section of the people have been denied any form of formal educationor rather religiously prohibited from acquiring any form of education not only on the basis of their inability to paybut also on the basis of their birth. Hence the Constitution makers were right in providing for instruments forsocial justice in the Constitution itself. Hence the core principles which should guide the educational policiesmust be access, quality and equity.

The entry of foreign institutions into India has aggravated the commercialisation of higher education. TheStatement of Objects and Reasons of the Bill correctly echoes this situation and says that the FEIs ‘may be resortingto various malpractices to allure and attract students’ and there are ‘chances of adoption of various unfair practicesbesides commercialisation’. The statement could be more accurate if ‘are’ is used instead of ‘may be’.

Even if the institutions are going to be regulated when the Bill becomes an Act, there is no guarantee thatcommercialisation by the FEIs will be curbed because the Bill doesn’t provide for the regulation of the feescharged by the FEPs. The FEPs will be free to charge any fee. It has to only declare the fees and other charges tobe payable by the students in their prospectus and their websites.

The proposed Bill doesn’t provide for reservation for SC, ST and other deprived sections. So our slogan ofinclusive education and inclusive society would be only a mirage.

The AIFUCTO contradicted the argument that the entry of FEIs will enhance the access rate. Statistics onadmission of students in private professional colleges in various states reveal the fact that thousands of seats inself-financing engineering colleges and polytechnics remain vacant every year because there are no takers. Theyouth outside the system do not have the capacity to pay the fees in these colleges and hence the vacancies.

The FEIs which wish to come to India do so only to make profit. The educational institutions in the developedcountries including the prestigious Oxbridge are facing a crisis because of the continued economic recession andthe resultant cut in the budgetary allocations to these institutions by their countries. So these institutions havestarted laying off teachers, increased the workload, increased the class strength of the students, cut down theexpenditure on books, journals and other infrastructure and increased the fees manifold. This has led to bitterand violent protests by students in many developed countries including the US and the UK.

So the institutions face an urgent need for finding new avenues for resource generation. Only against thisbackground these institutions turn to countries like India for greener pastures. So quite naturally they wouldcharge very high fees so that they could get profits which could be repatriated.

There is another argument that the entry of FEIs will stop the foreign exchange outflow into the developedcountries arising out of a large number of students going abroad to study. The argument goes on to say that whenthese foreign institutions come to India and provide quality education, the Indian students may not go out asthey can get in India the quality education offered by the institutions in the developed countries.

A large number of students go abroad not just to have quality education. They wish to use their study abroadas a spring board to get lucrative jobs in those countries and settle there.

This leads to another argument that the education provided by the FEIs would be of very high quality andthey would contribute to enhancing the quality of higher education directly by providing quality education intheir institutions and indirectly by inducing a competition between the native institutions. In their necessity tocompete with the FEIs, the native institutions also will enhance their quality.

This argument arises out of the misunderstanding and disinformation campaign that the Indian highereducation system is very sub-standard. But the fact is that the products of Indian higher education system iswelcome in any part of the world, be those the higher education institutions in the developed countries or theleading multi national companies in any part of the world

What will be the quality of the education provided by the FEIs. Teachers of vey high quality working in theseinstitutions in their countries will not come to India to teach here. Only second grade or third grade teacherswould come here. They would rather wean away the excellent teachers in our local institutions, offering them avery high salary and deprive our institutions the service of excellent teachers. So it will not lead to qualityenhancement of the local institutions but rather the impoverishment of our institutions.

Moreover it will lead to distortions of quality. The FEIs with their money power will unleash an advertisementand public relations blitz that our students will be confused about the quality of these institutions which willresult in distortions.

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Inculcation of values is an essential objective of higher education. What type of values will be inculcated bythe FEIs will also be a question. Will the FEIs accept our constitutional values?

What type of courses will be run by the foreign institutions? A study of the courses run by the foreigninstitutions which are operating in India reveals the fact that they run only marketable courses like managementcourses and other hospitality management courses. The Foreign institutions which will operate also run onlysuch courses which are in demand and which could fetch a lot of profit. This will create a mismatch between whatwe need and what is offered.

Further the experience of other countries in which FEIs had been operating also has to be taken into account.Israel, which was the first to welcome the FEIs, we understand, has ordered such institutions to quit as the qualityof the education they provided was very sub-standard. The ‘knowledge cities’ and the ‘Academic Zones’ in Gulfcountries have been very expensive even by international standards. Even the experience of Singapore is bitter.Chicago- Booth School, John Hopkins Centre, Warwick University etc., in spite of getting substantial cash subsidies,land, soft loans housing access, are packing up that a leading journal termed it ‘a divorce in Singapore’.

At the same time, the experience of China also has to be taken note of. In China, the FEIs cannot operateindependently. They have to tie up with recognized public institutions only. The Chairman of the Governing Bodyof the new entity would be a Chinese citizen. Not less than 50% of the members of the Governing body will haveto be from the local institution. The fees to be collected will have to be approved by the Govt. The new institutionwill have to abide by the rules and regulations in force. So in the case of China, the Chinese are in an advantageousposition.

Taking into consideration all these, the All India Federation of University and College Teachers’ Organizationsstrongly feel that the FEIs with unfettered freedom as envisaged in the Bill would be disastrous for our country.AIFUCTO is for collaborative links with leading foreign institutions in the area of research, curriculum development,teacher and student exchange etc. But any attempt to commercialise and exploit the higher education systemshould not be accepted.

On the basis of above arguments the AIFUCTO suggested the amendments to the Bill to protect the interestof Indian students and society.

Problem of Women Teachers

There are large and growing numbers of lady teachers in the higher education sector. They have some specificproblems which we tried to address. In order to prepare comprehensive report on the issue we have decided tohave a committee. We call upon all members to discuss the matter at the unit level and submit the report to theleadership.

DELHI PROGRAM

Since the last academic conference at Jalgaon, we had been working on our representations to the AnomalyCommittee to change some of the unhelpful and unrealistic recommendations, as elaborated in our earliersubmissions. We were also in constant touch with the MHRD for the payments of arrears to be made by thecentre to the States. During this period, a series of meetings with all concerned had been held, and we werecontinually monitoring the situation.

General Secretary’s discussions with Sri Sunil Kumar, Additional Secretary, MHRD

General Secretary held a number of discussions with Sri Sunil Kumar in January and February, 2011 to discussall pending issues including the moves by some states to introduce clauses detrimental to the teachers’ interests.Regarding the payment of central govt. share of arrears, Mr. Kumar informed the Gen. Secretary that the MHRDsought the permission of cabinet to de-link the payment of arrears and the age of superannuation. The Gen Secexpressed concern about the continued stalemate over the Net/SLET issue of teachers of Maharashtra andsought the intervention of MHRD without further delay.

General Secretary’s discussion with the members of Anomaly Committee

General Secretary maintained regular contact with all members of the Anomaly Committee and apprisedthem of the stand of AIFUCTO on various clauses of the Regulation. They were requested to ensure necessarychanges in tune with the AIFUCTO suggestions.


Secretariat Meeting

A secretariat meeting was held in New Delhi on 16th February; 2011.The meeting reviewed the currentsituation and discussed the actions to be taken. The Secretariat members prepared documents for meeting withthe Anomaly committee and Additional Secretary, MHRD. The latest developments with regard to the NET/SLETproblem of Maharashtra teachers were discussed, The secretariat decided to hold the next NEC meeting in Kolkataon 27th,March 2011.Prof.James William President,Prof Asok Barman,GS,Prof.V.P. Singh,Prof.Jaya Gandhi,Prof.RabiRoy ,Prof.Madhu Paranjpe, all national Secretaries participated.

Meeting with Prof. Ravi Srivastava on 16th February, 2011

The Secretariat members met Prof.Srivastava for a detailed study of the Regulation. It was a very effectivediscussion as all important points were covered and AIFUCTO views were presented in proper perspective beforethe UGC.

Secretariat meet with Dr. Kazmi, Secretary, UGC on 17th February, 2011

The Secretariat met Dr.Kazmi and requested her to take action on pending issues including the anomalies inpay scales issues relating to Regulations.. The leaders invited her attention to the UGC and MHRD stand regardingthe pre-Regulations PhD holders. It was pointed out that the discriminatory stand regarding the PhDs of the oldregulation was unjustified and unacceptable to AIFUCTO.

Meeting with Prof.Ved Prakash, Acting Chairman, UGC on 17th February, 2011

AIFUCTO President and GS met Prof.Ved Prakash the Acting Chairman, UGC and congratulated him on hisassuming the office. The leaders assured Prof.Ved Prakash of all support for UGC initiatives in the interest ofhigher education in India. Prof.Ved Prakash expressed the hope that the UGC and AIFUCTO will continue to worktogether.

Meeting with the Anomaly committee on 17th February, 2011

While an AIFUCTO delegation comprising of Prof. James William President, Prof.Jaya Gandhi, NationalSecretary and Prof.Jagwant Singh, Vice President.met with the Anomaly Committee, Gen. Secretary and otherSecretariat members went over to MHRD for another meeting with Shri Sunil Kumar.

Discussion with the Anomaly Committee was held on the following issues:

1. API during FIP/long Leave period:-

Agreed to work out a mechanism without insisting on Teaching & Extension work

2. Effective date of Regulation, 2010

Agreed to fix the date as 18-9-2010(Gazette Notification). To find a transitional promotion mechanism forthose who become due for promotion between 31-12-2008 and 18-9-2011.

3. Ph.D. in Concerned/Allied and relevant discipline

Agreed to recommend to consider incentive and equivalence to NET/SLET

4. Anomaly due to PhD incentive

Agreed to study the illustrations and recommend suitable remedy. AIFUCTO insisted that three incrementsshould be sanctioned (similar to two increments) granted during Reader promotion in 1996 pay revision) for pre-2006 Ph.D. holders.

5. Ph.D. awarded prior to 2009

Mechanism for treating old Ph.D. holders at par with the new regulations.

6. 1-1-1996 Anomaly

Agreed to study the sanction of Rs.14,940/- for those who became Reader between 1-1-96 & 27-7-98.

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7. Discrimination between Lecturers and DPE/Librarians

Agreed to rectify the differences pointed in various tables and Para 8.2 & disparity shown in Promotion from stage 4 to 5 and grant of study leave to college librarians

8. Selection Committee for Associate Professor

AIFUCTO insisted that there should not be selection. Experts can screen the data. Management role should not be there in promotion. Agreed to study but was also told of MHRD insistence that there could not be difference between direct recruitment & CAS for Associate Professorship.

Meeting with Sri Uma Shankar, Private Secretary to the Hon’le Minister, MHRD

President, GS and Prof. Madhu Paranjpe met Sri Uma Shankar and discussed issues including the MaharashtraNet/SIET issue. He also confirmed that the issue of the increment to the existing PhD holders in the revised pay asraised by AIFUCTO was with the MHRD. The AIFUCTO leaders requested him to take up the matter at the earliest.

Meeting with Sri. Sunil Kumar

AIFUCTO delegation comprised the General Secretary, Prof. V. P. Singh and Prof. Madhu Paranjape, NationalSecretaries.

The delegation had threadbare discussion on the following issues:a. Increment to existing Ph.D. holders in the revised pay scales.b. Treating all PhD holders as per the old regulation at par with the PhDs in the new regulation for new

appointment and CAS.c. Suitable pay scales for Demonstrators and Tutors.d. Payment of arrears to the States by the Central Govt.E. Net/SLET exemption to the Maharashtra teachers appointed between 1991 and 2000.

AIFUCTO leaders explained the rationale of the above demands and sought early solutions.

Meeting with Sri Pranab Mukherjee, Finance Minister

General Secretary and Prof V. S. Nehera, Vice President met Sri Pranab Mukherjee,the Finance Minister andexplained to him the impasse over the payment of Central Government share of the enhanced pay due to the 6th

pay revision. General Secretary drew his attention to the MHRD note to facilitate the payment. He expressedgratitude for the help received in the pay revision process and made an appeal to Sri.Mukherjee to resolve thearrears problem so that the teachers can get the same as early as possible.Sri Mukherjee gave a patient hearingand promised to look into the matter.

We are grateful to Sri Mukherjee for taking active interest in the matter and his follow up action. He wrote toSri Kapil Sibal,Hon’le Minister,HRD referring to the representation of AIFUCTO to him so that the problem isresolved.Sri Kapil Sibal has been taking appropriate measures in association with the Finance Ministry towardsthe payment of arrears.as early as possible.

General Secretary’s Activities in DELHI

In the second half of the period under consideration the General Secretary had been maintaining a campoffice in New Delhi for regular contact with UGC, MHRD, Members of Parliament and other eminent personalitiesfor highlighting various demands of AIFUCTO.

Extension of date of Refresher & Orientation Courses

In the past we had written a number of times to the UGC requesting to extend the dates of refresher &orientation courses and UGC accepted our demand. But in view of the fact that many teachers across the countrycould not attend such courses for various reasons, the General Secretary again wrote a letter to the UGC tofurther extend the date of Refresher & orientation Courses for the purpose of CAS and met the UGC officials toplace the demand.


Payments by the State Goverments

We are happy that most state govts. paid full amount of their share of payments while some states likeTamilnadu, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Orissa, Goa, Rajasthan etc paid even the central govt. share from their ownfunds. But there are states like Bihar Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh Manipur and others who have not paid their share.We demand all states should immediately pay the due amount to the teachers as early as possible. The GeneralSecretary geared up the affiliates by asking them to lobby with their State Ministers and MPs.

Memorandum to Sri Kapil Sibal, Hon’le Minister, HRD and meeting with Sri R.Sisodia and Sri Uma Shankar on8th July

The AIFUCTO President, General Secretary, Prof.V.S Nehera and Prof.Jagwant Singh Vice-Presidents andProf.D.Kumar,NEC Member again visited HRD Ministry on 8th July. A Memorandum was submitted to Sri KapilSibal,Hon’le Minister,HRD (see our website for full text).A detailed discussion was held with Sri Uma Shankar,PSto the Minister. The discussion included payment of arrears, exempting Ph.Ds obtained /thesis submitted/registeredfrom the new Ph.D regulations, 2009 of UGC, the Maharashtra teachers without NET issue and others.

The General Secretary and Prof. D.Kumar had a meeting with Sri.R.P.Sisodia Jt. Secretary (HE).MHRD regardingthe outstanding issues for an early solution.

Meetings with Sri R.P.Sisodia,Jt. Secretary & Sri Uma Shankar,PS to Minister,HRD on 21st july,11

The General Secretary along with Prof.Jagwant Singh and prof.D.Kumar again held a meeting with SriR.P.Sisodia, Jt.Secretray, MHRDand Sri Uma Shankar, PS to the Minister, HRD on 21st July to discuss the progressof the matters.We express our happiness for the sincere and helpul opinions and actions of the MHRD officers.

Meeting with Dr.N.A.Kazmi, Secretary, UGC on 21st July, 11

The AIFUCTO delegation comprising the General Secretary, Prof.Jagwant Singh and Prof.D.Kumar held anothermeeting with Dr.N.A.Kazmi, Secretary UGC. The meeting was also attended by Sri Ashok Dogra, Jt.Secretary andSrimati Rita Goel of Pay Scale Section.

The meeting was very cordial and satisfactory. The leaders placed all matters before Dr.Kazmi and she took avery helpful and constructive stand. The leaders informed Dr.Kazmi that the MHRD has clearly informed AIFUCTOleaders that the new UGC Ph.D. regulation would be only prospective. The delegation further reiterated therequest to extend the date of Refresher and Orientation courses. They also requested to share with AIFUCTO thefinal decisions regarding the removal of anomalies in the regulations as suggested by the Committee.

We sincerely thanked Dr.Kazmi for the meeting and expressed that the long standing practice of havingmeetings with AIFUCTO at regular intervals would continue.

DHARNA Program in Delhi on 26th August, 2011

A massive DHARNA program was organized on 26th August,2011 at Jantar Mantar,New Delhi. The demandsincluded:

1. Payment of Central and state Govts. Arrears due to the 6th pay revision.2. Measures to stop commercialization of higher education.3. Ensuring quality higher education for all.4. Measures for complete parity of teachers, librarians and DPEs.5. Rectification of the anomalies in the 5th and 6th pay revisions & Regulations6. Strengthening of public funded education and Increase in the allocation of funds for higher education

through UGC.7. Discussion with AIFUCTO and other teachers’ organizations about the proposed reforms in the higher

education sector including entry of foreign universities and formation of NEHER.8. Notification of regularization of Maharashtra teachers without NET appointed from 1991 to 20019. Withdrawal of PFRDA Bill.

It is heartening to note that all our affiliates responded very well and contributed to the great success of theDharna and March to Parliament on 26th August, 2011 and again on the observance of the Demands Day on 5thSeptember, 2011.We received very encouraging reports from all the parts of the country documenting theinvolvement of lacs of teachers in the programs of AIFUCTO. The objective of the programs was to sensitize our

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members and the nation regarding our demands that include, besides our professional agenda, the broad nationalissues relating to the restructuring of higher education in India. The media in many states, both print and electronic,gave wide publicity to our program.

We are gearing up to launch a bigger struggle including Court arrest in the month of November-Decemberwhen the winter session of Parliament takes place, if our demands of payment of arrears by the central andstate governments are not accepted by then. You are to ensure the necessary organizational preparedness forthe massive success of the proposed programs.

Dharna and March to Parliament on 26th August, 2011

The program was a massive success as thousands of teachers from across the country assembled in JantarMantar to voice loud protest against non payment of arrears by the central and some state governments, non-rectification of the pay revision anomalies, moves to pass PFRDA and other retrograde restructuring bills inParliament.

The Dharna was inaugurated by Mr. Biju, MP and addressed by Mr. Azeez Pasha and Mr. Prabodh Panda MPs.They expressed solidarity with the demands of AIFUCTO and declared that they would raise the issues in theParliament. Mr. Pasha raised the issue in Rajya Sabha the same day and Mr.Panda submitted a call attentionnotice to the Speaker of Lok Sabha.

Prof. James William, President and Prof. Asok Barman, General Secretary addressed the rally and gave a callfor a movement to compel the governments to accept our demands. The General Secretary noted that AIFUCTOexpressed solidarity with the anti-corruption movement of Sri Anna Hazare and supported the demand for astrong Lokpal Bill to be passed by the Parliament.

The General Secretary informed the Dharna about the great victory of the movement to regularize theMaharashtra teachers without NET under the leadership of MFUCTO and actively supported by AIFUCTO. Prof.Barman congratulated the fighting spirit and exemplary unity of Maharashtra teachers.

Speakers from the states criticized the central and some state governments for the stand on nonpayment ofarrears and moves to introduce reforms that would hurt the interest of the nation. They promised to come in verylarge numbers to attend any program in Delhi as and when decided by the NEC. The meeting was addressed byProf.K.K.Thekedath, our former president. He urged the young teachers to decipher the proposed bills and remainvigilant to protect the interest of the teaching community. The teachers marched to the Parliament and werestopped by the police. The General Secretary and other leaders reiterated the demands and thanked theparticipants. Memorandum was submitted to the Prime Minister and the Minister, HRD by the General Secretary.

Meeting with Chairman, UGC on 26th August, 2011

A delegation led by Prof.James William comprising Prof.V.S.Nehera, Vice President, Prof.V.P. Singh, Prof.JayaGandhi, Prof.Madhu Paranjpe, all national Secretaries & Prof.Lokendra, Zonal Secretary, met Prof.Ved Prakash,Chairman, and UGC and discussed the pending issues including the final report of Anomaly Committee on UGCregulations, Ph.D benefits in the new scales, new Ph.D regulations, extension of the date of refresher andorientation courses, regularization of Maharashtra teachers without NET from the date of appointment andothers.the chairman promised to look into the matters.

National Convention against PFRDA Bill and New Pension Scheme

The General Secretary participated and addressed a National Convention in Delhi on 22nd June, 2011 opposingthe PFRDA Bill convened by the All India State Govt. Employees’ Federation. He informed the well attendedmeeting that the AIFUCTO has already started a campaign against the Bill and hoped that a broad based platformwill be created to carry on the movement to oppose the new contributory pension scheme and the Bill.

Meeting with Sri R.Sisodia, Joint Secretary, HRD on 6th September, 2011

General secretary and Prof.Jagwant Singh, Vice President held meeting with Sri R.P.Sisodia,Jt. Secretary,HRDand conveyed the sentiment and decisions of the NEC meeting held on 26th August,2011.They enquired aboutthe progress of the secretary level meetings between Ministry of finance and HRD and expressed concern aboutthe slow headway.


Meeting with UGC officials on 6th September, 2011

General Secretary & Prof. Jagwant Singh met Dr.Kazmi, the Secretary, and UGC and requested her to take anearly measure to enhance the date of refresher and orientataion courses.Dr.kazmi informed that the AnomalyCommittee report is at the final stage and would be sent to MHRD soon.Sri Ashok Dogra, Jt. Secretary appraisedthe AIFUCTO leaders of the latest developments on all matters.

NEC Meetings

NEC meeting, Seminar and Felicitation Program in Kolkata on 27th March,2011

The NEC meeting was held on 27th march 2011 at the legendary Darbhanga Hall of Calcutta University,Kolkata. The meeting was hosted by AIFUCTO affiliates -CUTA, WBCUTA, WBGCTA, RBUTA, VUTA, KUTA, JUTA,BUTA and WBCLA. This was indeed a proud moment as the meeting showed the real strength and cohesivebeauty of AIFUCTO.

Felicitation to the Former Office Bearers

The NEC offered joyous and grateful felicitations to our former office bearers. We felicitated Prof. K. K.Thekedath, Prof. Shyamapada Pal, Prof.Anil Bhattacharyya-all former Presidents, Prof. Mrinmoy Bhattacharyyaand Prof. B. Vijay Kumar, former General Secretaries, Prof. Ajay Banerjee, former Treasurer, Prof. Asis Ray andProf. Manindra Nath Ray, both former Vice-presidents.

On behalf of the leadership, Prof. Asok Barman, General Secretary paid glowing tributes to the former leadersfor their glorious role in building and sustaining the AIFUCTO movement. He noted the sacrifices they made forthe movement and their unflinching loyalty to the continued unity of our Organisation. They placed the interestof the teachers above all differences and showed deep respect to different opinions and thus set before thenation an unparalleled example of democratic unity. The Gen. Secretary assured the former leaders that thepresent leaders imbibed the philosophy of united struggle and strategic actions from them. He informed themeeting that the present leaders take advice from our former leaders and derive great strength. He narrated theactive role of AIFUCTO in getting the historic orders for the revision of pension to the teachers who retired fromservice during the 5th pay Revision period. He hoped that the bond between generations of leaders will alwaysbe maintained.

Prof.Mrinmoy Bhattacharyya, on behalf of the felicitated leaders, thanked the present leadership andexpressed his conviction that the sense of working for the community, apart from the improvements in theservice conditions, shall always be the defining feature of the teaching community. He said that the changestaking place in different directions and dimensions paved the way for more active and purposeful lives of teachers-both serving and retired. He cautioned the gathering that the society is passing through challenging momentsand teachers have the noble duty of guiding the society for welfare of mankind.

Seminar

A lively seminar was organised by the Library Science Department of Calcutta University on the occasion ofthe NEC meeting. The topic of the Seminar was ‘Intrusion of Foreign Educational Institutions in India-the Challenges’.

The Seminar was presided over by Prof. Biplab Chakraborty, Prtesident, CUTA. Prof.Chakraborty, in his addressoutlined the ongoing debate about the entry of foreign educational institutions and drew the attention of theparticipants to the many lurking dangers.

Prof. Suranjan Das, Vice Chanceller of Calcutta University delivered the Key Note address.He opposed the very idea as only third grade institutions would come forward , with an eye on the vast

market, and possibility of quick profit. But the end result would be negative as could be seen from the examplesof many countries whose experiments with foreign institutional players ended in disaster. He noted that thiswould lead to the total neo-colonialisation of our educational structure.

Prof. K. K. Thekedath strongly opposed the Bill introduced in Parliament. The move would further erode thephilosophy of public funded education and the market forces would dominate neglecting the interests of millionsof students having little capacity to pay. The motive of commercialisation, he observed, must be exposed andopposed by a united movement of all stakeholders.

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Prof. Mrinmoy Bhattacharyya also opposed the Bill and warned that this would vitiate higher education andwork against the ethos of inclusive, quality education. He cited examples of many countries where higher educationdraws full support from the State.

Prof. James William outlined how the Govt. of India adopted the agenda of liberalisation, privatisation andglobalisation to the detriment of people of our country. While the access rate is already very low, the move willfurther hurt our higher education. He informed the house that there is nation wide protest to the harmful govt.policies from students, teachers and concerned people. A strong, united struggle would be organised to frustratesuch moves. He informed that President and General Secretary of AIFUCTO would appear before the StandingCommittee of MHRD to present the views of AIFUCTO.

Prof. Asok Barman felicitated Prof. Suranjan Das, Vice Chancellor, Calcutta University and thanked him for hissupport to hold the seminar. He thanked the Library Science Department, Calcutta University for the successfulSeminar. The host department thanked all speakers and participants.

NEC Meeting

Prof. James William, President inaugurated the well attended meeting with his introductory address. Hewelcomed the members from almost all parts of the country and introduced the agenda of the meeting. Prof.Asok Barman, General Secretary presented the report on all developments after the last NEC meeting. Hiscomprehensive report covered every notable development, the most important of which include the non-paymentof Govt. of India share of arrears to the States, UGC Regulations, Anomaly Committee Report, Implementation ofpay scales including the age of superannuation, and the different Bills presented in the parliament. He informedthat the cabinet was yet to de-link the age of retirement from payment of arrears. The MHRD officials informedthat they had sent the request for de-linking .The UGC Regulations Anomaly Committee was still working out andwould submit the report within a short period. The age of superannuation had been increased in some statesthough, and some had done it with riders. He requested the NEC to chalk out a program of action in support ofdifferent demands and enlist the support of political parties. He once again referred to the non payment/partialpayment of struggle fund by some affiliates and drew the attention to the members to the poor financial positionof AIFUCTO.

Members from all States reported the latest developments and their action program. Members from Tamilnaduinformed that they would get the rest of arrears including that due from Central Govt in April.2011.

The leadership at Manipur had been trying hard to rectify some deviations from the MHRD order and soughtAIFUCTO intervention. Associations of Maharashtra, UP, Bihar, MP, Tripura, and Jhrkhand were working to ensurethe acceptance of their demands.

The GS and many members expressed deep anxiety at the stalemate of NET/SET problem of thousands ofteachers of Maharashtra.Gen Secretary reported that AIFUCTO and MFUCTO were in constant pursuit of solutionto the problem.

Many office bearers sharply criticised the new pension scheme and suggested action to frustrate the CentralGovt.’s anti-employee move .

The leadership suggested an action program and accordingly the following decisions were taken.

Decisions of NEC Meeting held in Kolkata on 27th March, 2011 regarding Action Program

1) A demonstration/hall meeting at Unit level to be organised in the second or third week of April (date tobe decided by the affiliating organisations) demandinga) Withdrawal of the PFRDA Billb) Immediate disbursal of the Central share for the implementation of the UGC scales of pay to the

state governmentsc) Implementation of the UGC Ph.D Regulations prospectively not retrospectivelyd) Amendment to the UGC Regulations on Pay revision as per the suggestions made by the AIFUCTOe) Withdrawal of the neo-liberal reforms in education

2) Telegrams to be sent to the Hon. Prime-Minister by all affiliatesHon. Prime-Minister to instruct the govt. of India to immediately release the Central share for theimplementation of the pay scales to the state governments.

3) A State level Rally/ Convention / Dharna will be organised in May/ June, 2011(date to be decided bythe State Organisations)


3) National struggle programme/ Rally in July during the next Parliament session (Date to be decided bythe Secretariat)

All affiliates are requested to send the news about their action programs and invite Secretariat members/Office Bearers to participate in such programs.

Screening of a Documentary on WBCUTA

A documentary film, of 16 minutes duration, produced by WBCUTA and directed by Prof.Asok Barman, markingthe occasion of 75 Years of the Association, was screened. The documentary presents a panaromic view of thehistory the Association, its role to augment the teachers’ interest in the state and the AIFUCTO levels, and variousactivities including extension and publications.

Cultural program by Rabindra Bharati University

A superb cultural program was presented by the faculty members and students of the Rabindra BharatiUniversity. The rendition, studded with Tagore songs and poems besides traditional Bengali folk songs, mesmerisedthe audience, transported them to higher planes and thus rejuvenated the national activists as only RabindraSangeet could. Thanks to our colleagues for the memorable performance.

Congratulations to the Hosts

We convey our thanks and greetings to all the affiliates from West Bengal for the outstanding success of theNEC meeting.

AIFUCTO NEC meeting in Kuruskhetra

The next NEC meeting was held on 12th June, 2011 at Kuruskhetra, Haryana hosted by KUTA with activesupport from Haryana Federation, HGCTA and HCTA. The meeting started with the opening address by our presidentProf.James William. Prof.V.S.Nehera,Vice President welcomed the members who came from almost all the Statesof India. His welcome address touched upon the Haryana scenario too.

Prof Pradeep Chauhan President of KUTA and the HFUCTO presented an incisive report on Haryana that setthe agenda before the teachers’ movement in the State. On behalf of the Associations in Haryana he cordiallywelcomed the delegates.Prof.Kapoor Singh, Zonal Secretary of AIFUCTO and other functionaries of the vibrantteachers’ movement leaders were present.

Prof.Asok Barman, General Secretary, presented a comprehensive report on the developments after the lastmeeting. He reported that some States were yet to file reports on action taken as per the directions of theKolkata meeting. He urged all States to follow the movement program chalked out by the NEC and report thesame as early as possible. He stressed on the instructions given to all affiliates to contact the Chief Ministers,Education Ministers, Central Ministers and all MPs from the States and apprise them of our demands includingthe payment of arrears by the Central and State Governments without further delay. This contact program was ofgreat importance as rallies were going to be organized in States and Delhi. All Members of Parliament were to berequested to raise the issues in the Parliament.

The General Secretary stayed on in Delhi for days and met a number of MPs and sought their support. Hewrote to the Prime Minister and Finance Minister. Copies of letters to PM and FM are on the website and theletters to the MPs were circulated in the meeting. He informed that he had sought an audience with the PM andthe FM and waiting for the opportunity to meet them.

He reported that the UGC Regulations Anomaly Committee had submitted its final report. He wrote to theUGC Chairman to expedite the matter in the interest of teachers. An analysis of the final changes would be takenup by the leadership immediately after obtaining the notification.

The leaders reported about the payment of arrears and it was noted that some states including Goa, Orissa,Tamilnadu & Uttarakhand got the entire arrears from the State fund while UP paid arrears due from December2008. Haryana paid almost three fourths to college teachers and entire amount to university teachers. The meetingalso expressed concern at the terrible delay in payment at both Central and State levels. No State has receivedthe Central grants so far as the necessary cabinet nod to delink the age of superannuation from central assistanceis yet to come.

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The General Secretary reported that MHRD informed that Ministry’s Note for making the payment of arrearswas still pending with the Cabinet and a committee of officials of concerned Ministries was examining the issue.

The meeting expressed concern at the unnecessary and unreasonable interpretations of the MHRD orders insome States and decided to bring the same to the notice of UGC and MHRD. The affiliates were requested tobring such measures to the notice of the Secretariat.

The meeting expressed deep concern at whimsical Regulations being adopted in a number of states includingHaryana, which were at variance with the UGC Regulations and resolved to protest such moves. A resolution wasadopted to demand the extension of the tax exemption benefits to retirement benefits of college teachers. TheGen. Secretary requested Prof.Jagwant Singh, Vice President to prepare a memorandum to this effect to besubmitted to the Ministry of Finance.

Following the program of action decided in the Kolkata NEC meeting a decision was taken to organize aProtest Dharna at Delhi on 25.07.2011 to highlight our demands. Several resolutions were adopted by the meeting.

Our sincere thanks to KUTA, HFCUTA,HCTA & HGCTA for the wonderful hospitality for the successful meeting.A well attended press conference was held. Prof. James William, Prof.Pradeep Chauhan Prof.V.S.Nehera,

Prof. Kapoor Singh and other leaders participated. Prof. Asok Barman described the AIFUCTO agenda. The meetingwas covered by many news papers and electronic media. The Kuruskhetra NEC meeting decided to hold a Dharnaand March to Parliament on 25th July,2011 at Jantar Mantar, Delhi at 11 a.m. All affiliates were requested to makethe program a massive success.

NEC meeting at Gandhi Peace Foundation on 26th August, 2011

The NEC meeting was held in the evening of 26thy August, 2011.The meeting condoled the sad demise ofour former leader Prof. Sambhaji Jadav. The speakers paid glowing tribute to the great leader.

The well attended meeting was presided over by Prof.James William. Prof.William introduced the agendaand explained the importance of the ongoing AIFUCTO movement. The General Secretary presented a detailedreport on all the developments after the last NEC and congratulated the leaders for the massive success of theDharna program. He proposed a Demands Day program. The meeting decided that 5th September, 2011 wouldbe observed as Demands Day throughout the country and the members would wear demand badges and sendtelegrams to the Prime Minister, Finance Minister & HRD Minister. The General Secretary observed that if thedemands were not fulfilled, AIFUCTO would have to decide for cease work & court arrest during the wintersession of parliament.

The speakers from states apprised the NEC members of the latest developments.Prof James William and Prof.Vivekanandan, Chairman, the organizing committee of 26th Statutory Conference

hosted by MUTA invited all units and requested to send the names and delegation/participation fee at an earlydate. They appealed to raise advertisements at least one from each unit for the souvenir to be published on thisoccasion. The General Secretary appealed to all affiliates to secure advertisements to help the organizers. Womenparticipants would be provided separate accommodations.

Letter to UGC to Extend the Date of Relaxation for Refresher and Orientation coursesSome affiliates requested the leadership to write to UGC to extend the date of relaxation for undergoing the

mandatory refresher and orientation courses. Accordingly, the President and Gen. Secretary visited the UGCoffice and submitted a fresh request to this effect.

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WBGCTA

The 39th Annual Conference was held on 22-23 January,2011 with great enthusiasm at the beautiful sprawlingvenue of Hastings House Campus,Alipore,Kolkata. A large number of present members along with many formerleaders and retired members took part in the Conference. The theme of the seminar was- Stress Management inModern Life.

The Conference was addressed by many leaders, present and past. Prof.Asok Barman, Gen. Secretray, AIFUCTOaddressed the meeting and congratulated the Association for strengthening the national teachers’ movement.He extended support to demands of the association.


Prof.Debasis Sarkar, Gen. Secretary of the Association presented a comprehensive report on various activitiesof the organization and called upon its members to remain vigilant to protect the interest of the teachers.

The leaders and members reiterated the demand for establishing an exclusive university with jurisdictionover all the govt. colleges. The Association has prepared a road map for the proposed university to be calledUniversity of Bengal.

The meeting was presided over by Prof.Swapan Bhattacharyya., President, and WBGCTA.The WBGCTA was one of the hosts of the AIFUCTO NEC meeting held in Kolkata.We thank and congratulate

the Association for the great success of the meeting.Prof.Debasis Sarkar,GS and Prof.Swapan Bhattacharya,President and other leaders deserve accolades. The association actively participated in all AIFUCTO programs andsent a good contingent to the Delhi Dharna.

Present Position and the Task Ahead

The AIFUCTO has already charted the program of movement in the coming months for getting our demandfulfilled.The demand for the payment of arrears by the central govt. is the foremost one in our agenda and it is myunderstanding that after the Dharna there are noteworthy progress.However,if the demand is not mnt we shallgo for a court arrest program in the winter session of the Parliament. the MHRD in consultation with NUEPA andAIFUCTO has been in the process of final submission to the Cabinet. We are to be careful so that an early solutionis found. We have made it very clear that the age of superannuation and the payment of arrears should beseparately treated. We are not ready to accept a lower age of retirement for the sake of the arrears.

Our pressure on UGC for the extension of RC & OC must continue till the demand is conceded as we haveconvinced the UGC and the Anomaly Committee about the urgency of the matter. We can expect a notificationsoon.

Though we have successfully established the case for removing the l pay scales anomalies arising out of notgranting Ph.D.benefits, and the Anomaly Committee agreed with us, there is no rectification yet. The matter is tobe pursued with all seriousness.

The necessary notification of the important issues like making the Regulations only prospective, again hasbeen accepted by the MHRD and the UGC, would take a very important place in our agenda for the comingmonths.

We MHRD and the UGC still maintain that the post of demonstrators has already been abolished and no newscale can be given to them. This is utterly illogical as we wanted revision for the existing ones, and not for the newrecruits. The matter must be pursued in the future. The pay scales for accompanists is still not conceded by theMHRD though the UGC recommended the same. This should also be pursued. All these and other demandsneeds regular monitoring at both the Central and state levels.

We have successfully used our connections with the MPs of all political parties and this should remain amajor strategy to convince the govt. about the necessity of meeting our demands.

We believe in the strength of Dialogue, but must remain vigilant and fully prepared to launch any kind ofmovement. We are capable of doing that as we have proved our strengths many times in the past and we areconfident that we shall win at the last.

Our Social Responsibility

The teaching community, who are the direct beneficiary of the enhanced pay scales and other facilities ofthe govt. expenditure, has important social responsibility. Many of our members are involved in activities relatingto literacy movement, environmental protection movement, consumer awareness movement, civil rightsmovement and so on. We feel we have to play an exemplary role in fighting illiteracy, corruption and socialdivisions and the like. All our members are being requested to associate themselves with such movements. Nayof our leaders, both present and former, have been playing vital roles in such movements.

Tagore’s Philosophy of Unity

Let this august gathering remember RabindraNath Tagore who, in his own Santiniketan,used to begin ameeting with a beda song meaning

“Meet together, talk together, Let your mind apprehend alike, Common be the acquirement, Common bethe purpose, associated be the desire, Common be your thoughts, so that there may be thorough union amongyou”. Let this be the spirit of the Conference.

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Thanks

Thanks to all of you, who are the real strength of our united movement, thanks to the organizers and thanksto all those who worked hard to host such a massive gathering .

I am extremely grateful to our President for a wonderful support and guidance. I shall remember his wisdomand charming personality. I am deeply moved by the help and guidance of Prof.Nikhil Desai, the Treasurer. I paydeep sense of respect to Prof.V.P.Singh the senior most national Secretary: he helped me and guided me like atrue friend. My colleagues in Secretariat,Prof.Jaya Gandhi Prof.Rabi Roy.Prof.Sadikul Islam,Prof.Madhu Paranjpehave provided unstinted support.Prof.Jaya Gandhi has worked tirelessly in documentation.

Prof.M.Ravichandran of TNGCTA provided dedicated service for the documentation and editorial work.Prof Binyak Bhattacharya of WSCUTA has been with me in office work and in all programs throughout the

year and my office staff Ms.Manju, Lalu, Yogendra and Asis provided excellent support.In Delhi work Prof.V.S.Nehera, Prof.D.Kumar and Prof.Jagwant Singh lent great support.They accompanied

me on many occasions, many times even at a short notice.Prof.B.Vijay Kumar extended helping hand generously. My sincere thanks to themAbove all, our legendary leaders, Prof.Mrinmoy Bhattacharya and Prof K.K. Thekedath gave me all guidance.

I salute them.Long live AIFUCTO

Asok BarmanGeneral Secretary


MOVEMENT RESOLUTION

This 26th Statutory conference of the AIFUCTO held in Kanyakumari on October 20-22, 2011 resolves thatthe Golden Jubilee year celebrations begin from today. In the background of the grave socio-economic crisis withreference to field of education and teachers, employees and students in the country, the conference has notedwith deep concern that

1. While the revised pay scales for University and College teachers, as per the 6th pay commission haveenhanced the economic status of the teachers, there is a large community of teachers outside thedomain of UGC/AICTE pay scales, appointed as contractual teachers/guest lecturers in self financinginstitutions, in particular institutions under the faculty of technology. These teachers work on a pittancewith no security of service and no avenues of promotions/career advancement.

2. While the MHRD notification revised the pay scale w.e.f. 1.1.2006, the actual implementation in moststates has taken place in 2009 and thereafter resulting in the arrears due to difference of pay scales in5th and 6th pay scheme.

3. While as per MHRD notification Central Government was committed to give 80% of the arrears and therest to be borne by the State Governments, the MHRD imposed the condition of extension ofsuperannuation age to 65 years as mandatory for the states to receive this 80% of the Central Governmentshare.

4. While most states have not released the 20% share fully, they have also not been in a position toextend the retirement age to 65 years; whereby teachers have remained deprived of their due arrears.

5. While the UGC Regulations 2010 have introduced several stringent conditions for CAS of teachers makingit extremely difficult for teachers to reach the stage of Associate Professor and Professor; theimplementation of UGC’s scheme of pay revision has led to several anomalies creating discrepanciesand not giving full benefit of pay revision; also implementation of filling of Professor’s post in collegeshas not been done in letter and spirit of UGC’s scheme.

6. Meanwhile several reforms in higher education are sought to be introduced as part of neo-liberal policyof the Government and the Prime Minister and Planning Commission Chairman are firmly pushing forthese reforms in all official fora. Many new bills are introduced in the Parliament most notably the oneson NCHER, Private Universities and Foreign universities. This is an attempt to legitimize greaterwithdrawal of the Government from funding of education and greater commercialization of educationwith no Government regulation and no social control.

7. Simultaneously there is an attack on the democratic educational structure of the country andparticipatory democratic governance of the Universities; most grave being the recent ordinance in theWest Bengal passed by the cabinet dissolving all elected bodies of the State Universities and replacingthem with nominated bodies. The attempt to reduce democratic representation in the universities isalso seen in the recently released recommendation of Kakodkar Committee in Maharashtra appointedby the State Government.

8. The introduction of PFRDA Bill in the Parliament is a serious attempt by the Government to privatisethe pension funds affecting the social security of all sections of working people including teachers.

9. The strong pursuance of neo-liberal economic policy in the field of education is leading to a lopsideddevelopment in expansion of education, further disturbing the aspects of social justice and equity. Thepolicy of reservation for backward sections is the biggest victim in this situation. Simultaneously, theconcentration of educational institutions in urban areas is depriving the remote and backward regionsfrom benefits of spread of higher education.

Taking stock of this situation, this 26th Statutory Conference of AIFUCTO resolves to build up a movement inthe country for:

1. Payment of all pending dues/arrears from both Central and State Governments before the end of 2011.2. Payment of pay scales to teachers in self-financing colleges/courses as per UGC/AICTE norms3. Rectification of anomalies in the 5th and 6th pay regulations.4. Implementation of UGC Regulations 2010 prospectively.

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5. Measures for complete parity of teachers, DPEs and Librarians.6. Withdrawal of Bills on NCHER, Private universities and Foreign Universities.7. Measures to stop commercialization of education and to bring self financing institutions under social

control and UGC/AICTE regulations.8. Withdrawal of PFRDA bill.9. Withdrawal of Ordinance passed by West Bengal Government and restoration of participatory democratic

governance of Universities and Colleges with immediate effect.10. Strengthening of public funded education and increase in the allocation of funds for higher education

to prevent marginalisation of weaker sections like SC/ST and women in remote and backward sectionsand economically backward sections in the field of higher education.

11. Building co-ordinated struggles with other sections of working people to resist attacks on livelihoodsand social security measures by the Government.

The Conference further gives a call to affiliated units1. To participate in the signature campaign and a March to Parliament on 25-11-2011 at the call of National

Committee to oppose PFRDA Bill2. To participate in all programmes including Court Arrest program in the winter session of the Parliament

to be announced by NEC.Asok Barman Tarun Kumar Patra

General Secretary, AIFUCTO President, AIFUCTO

OFFICE BEARERS: 2011-2013

PRESIDENTTARUN KUMAR PATRA

GENERAL SECRETARYASHOK BARMAN

TREASURERNIKHIL DESAI

NATIONAL SECRETARY

P. JAYAGANDHI K. JAYAKUMARMADHU PARANJAPE RABI ROY

SANJAY KUMAR SINGH

VICE-PRESIDENT

RAVICHANDRAN PIYUSH VIJAYKUMAR VIVEKANANDANDEBABRATA GOSWAMI MALLIKARJUN RAO VAZIR SINGH NEHRAJAGWANT SINGH J. N. SHUKLA N. K. MULLA

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