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From the Desk of the PresidentThe last newsletter of our association was published in October 2009. Since then,

we have been passing through most difficult of times. It was precisely during September-October last year, the moves to detach Presidency College from the service as well asfrom the University of Calcutta, were being mooted. This split, in my opinion, was onlypossible because of non-coherence of the Presidency College unit with the democraticallytaken resolutions of the association. It is surprising that not a single note of dissent wasrecorded on this issue in our minutes. Members, however, continued to observe thatthe same persons who were vowing for an undivided WBES in the meetings of Generaland Executive Council, were in fact playing Men Friday, seeking secession inside theCollege. A late intervention by members saved the Association from further disgrace.

The enactment of the Presidency University Bill ,however, has been completed.From the very drafting to its enactment, the government refused to pay any heed to ourrepeated plea for an open discussion on the issue. The voices of concern of the membersof the service, who are also stakeholders in Presidency College, were simply wishedaway. We resorted to a phased movement programme that was carried out withunforeseen spontaneity. The euphoria that followed the announcement in a section ofPress and public has died down and every move of the Government would certainly besubjected to public scanner now. Whether or not the University can match the glory ofPresidency College will be for the posterity to judge, but our role in this context wouldcertainly be viewed with greater importance in days to come. Our long standing demandof a classified State University has become more relevant as newer voices in the name ofupgradation are being raised by people with interest in other Government colleges aswell. How complete will our marginalization be when and if these demands are met!

Although Presidency attracted major attention of the Association and rightly so, wenever failed to remind the government of the pending issues like transfer, CASimplementation, age of superannuation and arrear pay, WBES status for Librarians andPhysical Instructors to name a few, but the government’s preoccupation with Presidencyaffair is proving to be a stumbling block. We all know that very difficult days are aheadbut if we are true to our cause and if our demands are not programmed by personalinterests, we can withstand any situation. After all, we are answerable to our studentsand there lies our strength.

Swapan Bhattacharyya

2 WBGCTA NEWS LETTER, SEPTEMBER 2010

CONTENTS

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

Members, College Committee .................................................... 4

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

Reports on the Meetings

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

General Council ....................................................................14

Sub-Committees ...................................................................22

Correspondence ........................................................................24

Reflections from the Press .........................................................73

Government Orders Issued ...................................................... 139

News from the AIFUCTO .......................................................... 182

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Debapriya BhattacharyaJana ChakrabortySanghita SenSmriti Ray

Press and Publication Sub-Committee

Srabani RaySupratim PalTanuja MajumderTapasree Das

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PresidentSwapan Bhattacharyya

Vice PresidentBaisali Sinha

Debaprasad BanerjeeShyamal Kumar Chakraborty

General Secretary (officiating)Debasish Sarkar

Joint SecretaryAnis Akhtar

Debasish SarkarEmanul Haque

Namrata Pariyar

TreasurerArun Kumar Roy

Members

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

Members, Executive Committee from 25.05. 2010

Anisur RahamanArpita Bhattacharya

Ashim Kumar BoseBiplab Chattopadhyay

Debnarayan RoyDilip Kumar Thakur

Gouranga DandapatKrishna Bhattacharjee

Nilay Ray

Pradip Kumar BhattacharyaSanghita SenSantanu DasSatarupa BandyopadhyayShyam Sundar SahanaSoumen BhattacharjeeSudipta MullickSwarup Bose


1. ACHARYA BROJENDRA NATH SEAL COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Dipyaman PalUnit Treasurer Anil Kumar SarkarGeneral Council Anil Kumar Biswas

Dhanonjoy BhattacharyaNilay RayParamita ChatterjeeRamchandra PramanikSamiran GhoshSanghita Ghosh

2. BARASAT GOVERNMENT COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Ashok Kumar DasUnit Treasurer Mriganka De SarkarGeneral Council Asim Kumar Majee

Biplab ChattopadhyayDulal Chandra DasNarayan Chandra SahaRupa BanerjeeSantanu ChakrabartiSumanta Mukhopadhyay

3. BETHUNE COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Gopa GuptaUnit Treasurer Sarmistha BanikGeneral Council Gargi Sengupta

Keya BoseMadhumita MannaManidipa DasMohua ChatterjeeNilanjana BagchiSatarupa Bandyopadhyay

4. BIDHANNAGAR COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Partha Pratim DasguptaUnit Treasurer Anup Kumar SenguptaGeneral Council Amit Kumar Roy Chowdhury

Manas KunduNirmalendu ShakharuPritam BandyopadhyaySaibal GuptaShyam Sundar SahanaShyamal Kumar ChakrabortySudeshna ChandaSushanta Nath

5. BIKASH BHAVAN

Unit Secretary Debesh RoyUnit Treasurer Subhasish ChakrabortyGeneral Council Mahua Chatterjee

Sandip Kumar PanditSuvro Dey

6. CHANDERNAGORE COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Brij Kumar TiwariUnit Treasurer Chandrani ChatterjeeGeneral Council Bimal Kumar Mondal

Emanul HaquePrabir Kumar BhattacharyaArindam GoswamiBhabani DasSukumar DeDebasis Mallik

7. DARJEELING GOVERNMENT COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Tuhin Kumar SahaUnit Treasurer Madhab Chandra AdhikaryGeneral Council Anup Ghosh

Bidyut PramanikDipankar SenJayanta Kumar MandalNamrata Pariyar

8. DAVID HARE TRAINING COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Smriti RoyUnit Treasurer Amlan GangulyGeneral Council Purnendu Acharya

Biswanath BandopadhyaySubhas Chandra Bhat

9. DURGAPUR GOVERNMENT COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Sandip BandopadhyayUnit Treasurer Saswati ChakrabortyGeneral Council Anisur Rahaman

Biplab BhattacharyaDebashis BanerjeeMuralidhar NandiRaghunath HazraSudipta Pal


Members, College Committee : 2009 - 2010


10. GOENKA COLLEGE OF COMMERCE AND

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Unit Secretary Biswajit BhowmikUnit Treasurer Sujit Kumar RoyGeneral Council Debasish Maitra

Debasish SarkarSajal Kumar MaityTarun Kumar Sarkar

11. GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF ART AND CRAFT

Unit Secretary Kiran SenUnit Treasurer Lipika BalaGeneral Council Jayanta Chaudhuri

Pradip BhattacharyaPradip MondalRupa Panda

12. GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, BANIPUR

Unit Secretary Pratap Kumar JanaUnit Treasurer Goutam PatraGeneral Council Pratap Kabiraj

Sutapa Thakur

13. GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, BURDWAN

Unit Secretary SK. NazmulUnit Treasurer Chandan AdhikaryGeneral Council Ashraf Hossain

Dilip Kumar Thakur

14. GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND

CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY

Unit Secretary Sibnath GhoshUnit Treasurer Narayan BandyopadhyayGeneral Council Prasanta Narayan Dutta

Ranjan Ray

15. GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

AND LEATHER TECHNOLOGY

Unit Secretary Pratap Chandra RoyUnit Treasurer Sanjoy ChakrabortyGeneral Council Goutam Mukherjee

Kalyan Mahato


TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY, BERHAMPORE

Unit Secretary Sudip BandyopadhyayUnit Treasurer Shemim BegumGeneral Council Debraj Sarkar

Dhananjoy Roy


TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY, SERAMPORE

Unit Secretary Himansusekhar GuhaUnit Treasurer Dibyendu RayGeneral Council Biswapati Chatterjee

Chandrakanta Saha

18. GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL

EDUCATION FOR WOMEN, DINHATA

Unit Secretary Saroj Kumar BasuUnit Treasurer Pintu SilGeneral Council Susanta Sarkar

19. GOVERNMENT PHYSICAL EDUCATION COLLEGE

FOR WOMEN, HOOGHLY

Unit Secretary Malay Kumar MukhopadhyayUnit Treasurer Girija BasuGeneral Council Putul Mondal

Uma Datta

20.GOVERNMENT TEACHERS’ TRAINING COLLEGE,MALDA

Unit Secretary Sushanta Kumar DattaUnit Treasurer Kartik Chandra SarkarGeneral Council Abdus Salam

Palash Das

21. GOVERNMENT TRAINING COLLEGE, HOOGHLY

Unit Secretary Soumen Prasad MandalUnit Treasurer Lily MondalGeneral Council Pranab Kumar Majumder

Sanjiban Sengupta

22. HALDIA GOVERNMENT COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Somnath DeyUnit Treasurer Partha GhoshGeneral Council Dilip Kumar Mohanty

Kaustav BakshiKinsuk DasKrishnendu Polley

23. HOOGHLY MOHSIN COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Jyotirmay ChakrabortyUnit Treasurer Barin PramanikGeneral Council Buddhadeb Chandra

Kankan Kumar ChowdhuryPremkumar AgarwalSaubhik DasSaurabh MukhopadhyaySoumen BhattacharjeeSudipta MullickSyed M. HasmiUjjwal Chattopadhyay


24. INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION FOR WOMEN,CHANDERNAGAR

Unit Secretary Bishnupada BeraUnit Treasurer Keka TrivediGeneral Council Tapas Kumar Mitra

25. INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION FOR WOMEN,HASTINGS HOUSE

Unit Secretary Sarbari BakshiUnit Treasurer Aparna ChakrabortyGeneral Council Smritikana Majumdar

Sujata Raha

26. JALPAIGURI GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Anil Ranjan SarkarUnit Treasurer Nikhil Kumar JasGeneral Council Asitanga Ghosh

Partha Karmakar

27. JHARGRAM RAJ COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Chhandam ChakrabortyUnit Treasurer Hemen BiswasGeneral Council Amalendu Roy

Debnarayan RoyDilip Kumar MahantiGouranga DandapatMoumita DuttaRajkumar Chakraborti

28. KALYANI GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Satadal MalUnit Treasurer Bandana BarmanGeneral Council Kalidas Das

Santanu DasUttam Das

29. KRISHNAGAR GOVERNMENT COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Jayanta Kumar BiswasUnit Treasurer Sudipta PramanikGeneral Council Anupam Chakraborty

Asis Kumar PanditDebabrata MukhopadhyayKrishnendu DuttaSankalita GhoshSubhajit SenguptaSusobhan MukhopadhyaySwarup Bose


34. SANSKRIT COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Arindam BhattacharyyaUnit Treasurer Biswaranjan PandaGeneral Council Anadi Kumar Kundu

Krishna Bhattacharjee

35. STATE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

FOR WOMEN, HASTINGS HOUSE

Unit Secretary Amit BanerjeeUnit Treasurer Gopa Saha RoyGeneral Council Asish Paul

Subhra Basak

36. TAKI GOVERNMENT COLLEGE

Unit Secretary Arpan ChakrabortyUnit Treasurer Paramita ChaudhuriGeneral Council Jayanta Mistri

Jayanta BiswasMrinal Kanti SarkarTapas Chandra Saha

Sub-Committees

AIFUCTO Sub-CommitteeChandana Datta : ConvenorAparna Chakraborty : MemberBaisali Sinha : “Debaprasad Banerjee : “Debasish Sarkar : “Mohua Chatterjee : “Namrata Pariyar : “Nilay Ray : “Rajkumar Chakraborty : “Shyamal Kumar Chakraborty : “Swapan Bhattacharya : “

Engineering and Technological College Sub-Committee

Santanu Das : ConvenorBiswapati Chatterjee : MemberKalyan Mahato : “Mousumi Maitra (Majumder) : “Ranjan Ray : “Sanchayan Mukherjee : “Satadal Mal : “

Library Sub-CommitteeTapasree Das : ConvenorArun Ray : MemberBijoy Dey : “Biswajit Banerjee : “Chaity Chakraborty : “Laxmi Narayan Maity : “Shyam Sundar Kundu : “

Press and Publication Sub-CommitteeDebasish Sarkar : ConvenorArpita Bhattacharya : MemberBiplab Chattopadhyay : “Biswanath Bandyopadhyay : “Debaprasad Banerjee : “Debapriya Bhattacharya : “Jana Chakraborty : “Sanghita Sen : “Smriti Ray : “Srabani Ray : “Supratim Pal : “Tanuja Majumder : “Tapasree Das : “

Physical Education Sub-CommitteeAtindra Nath Dey : ConvenorAmit Banerjee : MemberBadal Jana : “Putul Sikder : “Sambhunath Bhattacharjee : “Sandip Mal : “Tarun Bera : “

Seminar Sub-CommitteeDebaprasad Banerjee : ConvenorAnik Chatterjee : MemberBidyut Baran Ghosh : “Debasish Maitra : “Dilip Naha : “Jaysree Mukherjee : “Natasa Dasgupta : “Ranjan Ray : “Sebanti Bhattacharya : “Subhalakshmi Pandey : “Subrata Hore : “


As per provision of the constitution of WBGCTA in the meeting of the General Council held at the officeof the association on 08-03-2009 the Election Commission (2009 - 2010) was formed with the followingmembers.

Bijay DeJayanta SenPrabal MukherjeeSudip GhoshTapasree Das

Note:Following the provision of the constitution vide chapter VIII Sub clause 8(ii), the Election Commission inits first meeting held on 13.03.09 elected Tapasree Das to act as the Chairperson of the Commission.

Service Condition Sub-CommitteeSwapan Bhattacharya : ConvenorAmitava Chatterjee : MemberAnindya Sengupta : “Anis Akhtar : “Arun Kumar Roy : “Asim Bose : “Bandana Chakraborty : “Debaprasad Banerjee : “Debasish Sarkar : “Krishna Bhattacharjee : “Mou Ray : “Nina Nandy : “Prabir Das : “Rupa Banerjee : “Samsul Alam : “Sandip Kumar Pandit : “Shyamal Kumar Chakraborty : “Shyamsundar Sahana : “Soumen Bhattacharjee : “Subrata Ghosh : “

Training College Sub-CommitteeTapash Mitra : ConvenorDilip K Thakur : MemberBiswanath Bandopadhyay : “Smriti Roy : “Subhas Bhat : “Sujata Raha : “Sarbari Bakshi : “Pratap Jana : “Sampa Dey : MemberSomnath Manna : “Sanjiban Sengupta : “Asraf Ali : “Chandan Adhikari : “Sumanta Chatterjee : “Palash Das : “Kaustav Bhattacharya : “


Report on the Meetings Held since October, 2009

Executive Committee

Meeting-I : 10th December, 2009

Issues discussed :

Proposed Change of Status of Presidency College

Proceedings and Rdsolutions :

The General Secretary read out the resolution adopted in the GC meeting of 6.12.2009 along with the writtennote released to the Press by the Association on 8.12.2009 regarding the matter. The GS also talked about signaturecampaign and sought suggestions from the members as to whom the signatures ( supporting the protest-note &demand-resolution ), should be submitted.

The EC endorsed the actions taken by the Association such as Press-conference following the release ofPress-note, mass signature campaign and allied forms of movement programme.

It was decided that the signatures collected (supporting protest-note & Demand-resolution) would besubmitted to the Minister-in-Charge, Higher Education Department, Govt. of West Bengal with a forwardingletter. Also decided that the Association would seek an appointment with the MIC (HE), to discuss with him theAssociation’s demands.

Members suggested various modes of movement which could be pursued by the Association to oppose thePresidency University Bill 2009. However, the view that, ‘we should submit the signatures to the MIC(HE), discusswith him the matter placing our demands and watch for any positive development in our favour (at least for awhile)’, was largely endorsed. Members decided that in case of urgent necessity, an emergent meeting of the ECwould have to be called. Accordingly, all the members would be urged to stay in close contact with the Association,in view of the impending crisis.

Meeting-II : 2nd January, 2010

Issues discussed

(i) Recent developments relating to the Presidency University Bill, 2009.(ii) The 38th Annual Conference (2010) of the Association.

Proceedings and Rdsolutions :

Sri HN Bhattacharya presided over the meeting. The General Secretary, Sri Syamal Kumar Basak, reportedabout the meeting that took place between the Association’s representatives and the MIC(HE) on 22.12.2010, atBikash Bhavan.

The members strongly felt that Association must express its displeasure and resentment against the Bill atall fora. Some pointed out, that with minor changes, there exists a scope for affiliation of other Colleges in theBill. It was observed, with great pain and agony, that the Bill which purports to do away with Presidency Collegefrom the pages of Indian history, has been placed in the Assembly in a tearing hurry by the State Government,without any discussion at the collegial level or with its stake-holders. Even the MIC (HE), in its meeting with theAssociation leadership, admitted that the Government was in a haste to prepare this Bill. The MIC acknowledged



the decade-old demand of our Association for bringing all government colleges in the state under a classifiedunitary State University but pleaded his inability to do anything about it. The members further learnt that the Billhad been sent to the Standing Committee of the Legislative Assembly.

The GS mentioned that, above all, we must stick to our demand and future movement programme may bediscussed at the forthcoming 38th Annual Conference on 23rd and 24th January, 2010.

Following resolutions were adopted :

(i) A combined EC & GC meeting be called on 10th January, 2010.(ii) Invitation Cards are to be printed.(iii) Prof. Abid Hussein would have to be contacted for a lecture in the UGC Sponsored Seminar to be held

on 23rd January, 2010. Prof. Thorat’s name was also suggested as a speaker at this Seminar Furtherdiscussion regarding the matter would have to take place on 6th January, 2010 in the Seminar Sub-committee meeting.

(iv) Publication of an article on the envisioned State University (our demand) in the Conference Souvenir,would be in order. The Publication Sub-committee would look into the matter.

(v) Members were urged to take the initiative for collecting advertisements for the Souvenir.

Meeting-III : 10th January, 2010

Issues discussed :

(i) Recent developments relating to upgradation of Presidency College to a Unitary University.(ii) Draft Annual Report and Resolutions to be placed in the Annual Conference 2010.(iii) Preparation for the Annual Conference 2010.

This meeting was a combined one with that of General Council and was held before the 38th AnnualConference,2010, slated for 23rd and 24th January, 2010. Transcription of this meeting has been the same as thatof 10th January, 2010 General Council meeting.

Meeting-IV : 15th March, 2010

Issues discussed :

Proposed move by the Government to place ‘The Presidency University Bill, 2009’ in the Budget Session ofthe Assembly, vis-à-vis our resolutions adopted at the last Annual Conference.

Proceedings and Resolutions :

Sri HN Bhattacharya presided over the meeting. He recalled the Association’s stand about the matter underdiscussion. He further added that our demand for a classified affiliating State University had been reiterated inthe last Annual Conference, 2010, and suggested that we might refurbish the same by seeking an affiliatingstatus of the proposed university, instead of a unitary one. In this context, the President suggested writing aletter to the MIC (HE), seeking a discussion.

The members resented the proposed move to change the status of Presidency College. There were categoricaldemands from the members as to effecting no change of status of Presidency College to either a unitary ordeemed university. Instead, members insisted that the Presidency College be kept at its present state as aGovernment College within West Bengal Education Service. Many urged the leadership to launch forthwith concretemovement programme to realize our demands. Quite a few members endorsed the suggestion of seeking adiscussion with the MIC (HE), on this issue.


Resolved that a letter be written to the MIC(HE) seeking a discussion. The letter would categorically reiteratethe Association’s views regarding the ‘Presidency University Bill 2009’. Also, resolved that an extended GeneralCouncil meeting would be held on 17th March, 2010 starting at 5.00 pm. The meeting would be extended in the


sense that Unit Secretaries, Unit Treasurers, members of the Election Commission and different subcommitteeswould also be invited.

Meeting-V : 22nd March, 2010

Issues discussed :

To chalk out follow-up movement programme in protest against ‘Presidency University Bill 2009’ andorganizational matters of the Association.


Sri HN Bhattacharya presided over the meeting. Sri Shyamal K. Chakraborty was requested to report on thelast GC meeting which he presided. Sri Chakraborty read out the text of a resignation letter submitted by theGeneral Secretary Sri Syamal Kumar Basak, addressed to the President of the Association.

The deliberations concentrated mostly on the follow-up movement-programme to be taken up by theAssociation. Sri Debasish Sarkar talked about different phases of the earlier movement programme and elaboratedon how, as a part of the programme, several members of the West Bengal State Assembly were approached tohelp resist ‘The Presidency University Bill 2009’. He suggested that a special conference be called on the issue anda comprehensive document be prepared to substantiate the demand of the Association for a classified affiliatingState University. He also informed the House that a memorandum had been submitted to His Excellency, theGovernor of West Bengal, where an interview with him had been sought. His Excellency, the Governor, in response,expressed his desire to meet the Association’s delegation on 25th March, 2010 at 5.00 pm.

Regarding the movement programme members suggested various modes including burning of the ‘BlackBill’, demonstration at Metro-Channel, Dharna in front of Bikash Bhavan, three day’s strike, convention and legalaction.


Resolved that a Convention would be organized where fraternal organizations from the State and from theNational level would be invited along with teacher-leaders of WBGCTA and ABSGCTA. In addition, different membersof the academia would be invited.

The House also decided on the composition of the delegation to meet the Governor on 25th March, 2010.

Meeting-VI : 12th May, 2010

Issues Discussed :

(i) Organizational affairs, (ii) Service Matters, (iii) Matters arising

Proceedings and Resolution :

Swapan Bhattacharya, President of the Association, presided over the meeting. He requested ShyamalChakraborty to apprise the house regarding organizational matters taking leads from the last GC meeting dated11.04.2010. Sri Chakraborty elaborated on the circumstances leading to bye-election to EC and spelled out thenewly constituted EC as declared by the Election Committee on 06.05.2010. He congratulated members of thenew EC and the President elect Swapan Bhattacharya and also wished that this EC carry through true ethos of theAssociation.

President elect Swapan Bhattacharya mentioned about the crisis surfaced within the last EC owing to passageof the Presidency University Bill 2009 in the State Assembly and explained how the General Council decided uponreconstituting EC anew.

Members discussed issues related to above agenda. Some queried as to why Syamal Basak resigned from thepost of General Secretary. Quite a many members cautioned subversive forces from trying to cause any harm toWBGCTA or attempting to split the organization. Members also pledged to uphold the spirit of the Associationand undertake to abide by its decision fully. Some suggested that Association immediately write letters toappropriate authority demanding arrears, 65 years of superannuation age and other service related issues. Some


proposed a dharna and observance of similar other programme/activities to realize our demands. A few suggestedthat the Association extend helping hands to the State Government. A couple of members even questioned theconcept of extended GC meeting.

Following resolutions were adopted :To request Syamal Basak once again to reconsider his resignation from the post of GS.A GC meeting be convened on 23rd May, 2010 to decide upon the future action plan for movement.To communicate to appropriate authority about our opposition to granting autonomy to Engineering and

Technological Colleges.To demand for implementing new pay-scale for AICTE teachers.To demand WBES status to Librarians.To demand for speedy filling-up of vacant posts of non-teaching, teaching, librarians and principals.

Meeting-VII : 8th July, 2010

Issues Discussed :Chalking out action plan on the developments following signature of the Governor in the Presidency University

Bill 2009.


Swapan Bhattacharya, President of the Association, took the chair to preside over the meeting. He mentionedthat probably Governor approved the Bill on 6.07.2010. He suggested that the date of signing the bill by Governor,be observed every year as a Black-Day. Many applauded the suggestions.

Members further deliberated in details about the material content of the Bill and the way it is being passedthrough clandestinely. Members also suggested vigorous movement programme demanding retraction of theBill. Almost all present in the meeting, ventilated their strong resentment against the move to negate Presidencyas an undergraduate college. Members put-forth various suggestions as immediate future movement programme,such as, wearing of black-badge, Mass gathering, Mass deputation, filing of law-suits, relay hunger strike, generalstrike, writing letter to CM and/or other administrators.

Many of the members present also suggested that the service related demands of the Association be taggedalong with that relating Presidency University Bill 2009. Officiating General Secretary, Debasish Sarkar expressedhis strong displeasure about the matter of discussion. He acknowledged all the well thought-out suggestions ofthe members. However, he opined that the house take a concrete decision for sending a letter to the CMimmediately, giving vent to Association’s anger and demanding to make-up any loss, whatsoever, due to anyuncalled-for move of the Government. Regarding the other proposals, he agreed on principle, with the protest-day and demand day observance and suggested that detailed nitty-gritty of these be discussed, in a GC meetingnext, to be called immediately.

Following resolutions were adopted :To write a letter to our state CM at the earliest whose text would be approved by the next GC meeting.To convene an emergency GC meeting on 11.07.2010.A protest day to be observed whose modus operandi would be decided on the GC meeting next.A demand day to be observed, preferably on 20th August, 2010, the foundation day of the Association.

Meeting-VIII : 19th July, 2010

Issues Discussed :

Charter of demands to be submitted to the MIC(HE) on 20th July, 2010, from a gathering in front of BikashBhawan.

Proceedings and Resolutions :Swapan Bhattacharya, President of the Association, presided over the meeting. He reiterated the on-going

movement programme initiated by the Association.


He mentioned that the demands from our Association are closely linked to the movements of teachers at theNational level.

Officiating General Secretary Debasish Sarkar informed the house that MIC(HE), as the information came,would remain present at Bikash Bhaban on 20th July, 2010 to accept WBGCTA’s Charter of Demands.

President placed the draft of the Charter of Demands in the house for approval, whose highlights are asfollows :

Academic Matters :

Scrap the Presidency University Bill, 2009.Create an affiliating state university comprising all the government colleges in West Bengal.Create new Government Colleges within the Kolkata Municipal area with at least 224 teaching posts.Fill up all vacant posts of teachers, non-teaching, librarians and principals.

Service Matters :Increase superannuation age of teachers to 65 years.Make arrangement to pay 100 % of arrears in a single instalment.Introduce immediately the revised pay-scale for AICTE teachers.Clear up pending cases of Career Advancement for teachers.Bring out appropriate Govt. Order to provide Rs.3000 as special allowance to the Govt. College Principals.Allow study leave with pay to teachers enabling them to pursue Ph.D and Postdoctoral research.Extend WBES status to the Librarians.Bring out proper Govt. Order so that retired teachers of pre-2006 and post-2006 period get pension and

arrears as per the revised pay-scale

General :

Take proper measures to curb violence in educational institutions.Initiate measures to stop privatization in education, flow of foreign capitals in education as well as oppose

foreign university bill.Members discussed thoroughly the Charter of Demands. Minor changes in the covering letter was suggested.


The House unanimously accepted the Charter of Demands to be placed and approved the covering letterwith changes suggested. The house wanted to see for a formidable gathering in front of Bikash Bhavan on 20th

July, 2010 and wished that the Charter of Demands, as adopted, be submitted to the MIC(HE) during scheduledtime.

Meeting-IX : 18th August, 2010

The meeting was held with the President Sri Swapan Bhattacharya on the Chair.Agendum : Finalization of Approach Paper for State University.The paper was read out and different suggestions taken into account, before finalising the same.

Meeting-X : 31st August, 2010

The Association would observe General strike on 7th September 2010 as per the resolution adopted in theNEC meeting of AIFUCTO held on 14.8.10.

Further, the Association would take necessary measures to make the strike success in all 35 Govt. Colleges ofthe state.


General Council

Meeting-I : 6th December, 2009

Issues Discussed :

Change of status of Presidency College


The General Secretary apprised the house about a Bill to be placed in the State Assembly to change thestatus of Presidency College into an Unitary University. He chronicled the moves that led to the outcry, withoutany rhyme or reason, for change of status of Presidency College to a Unitary University. This move militatesagainst our long-standing demand on such an issue. In recent times, the question of change of status was firstmooted at a Teachers’ Council meeting at that College on 25th August, 2009, followed by an engineered consentfrom different departments in favour of the move, without any genuine collegial discussion. When the subjectcropped up at a subsequent TC meeting on 16th September, 2009, no definitive conclusion was reached on thisissue and the meeting was adjourned after prolonged discussion. Unfortunately, this move was endorsed,surprisingly at a Governing Body meeting (03/11/2009) with a single Teachers’ representative.

The members unequivocally denounced this effort of dissociating Presidency College from the service cadreof WBES and opined that changing the college to a unitary university would be contrary to its sustainabledevelopment, as pointed out by the 7-Member Expert Committee appointed by the state government. Membersalso unanimously reaffirmed their opinion on the decade-old demand of the WBGCTA for a classified affiliatingState University comprising of all the Government Colleges in West Bengal.

To oppose the forthcoming Presidency University Bill 2009 and to realize the long-standing demand of theAssociation, the house adopted the following resolutions :

a) To convene a Press Conference on 8th December, 2009 at the Association office to communicate itsstand, on this issue, to the media. A Press-release elaborating the views and demands of the Associationwould also be published and distributed to the media.

b) To initiate a signature campaign by the members of the Association in favour of its demands, and tosubmit the same to the appropriate authorities. The format of the resolution is given below :

Signatures of the..........................................................................................................................Collegeunit members as per the resolution adopted in the G.C. meeting held on 06-12-09.The West Bengal Government College Teachers’ Association strongly opposes any move on the part ofthe Government of West Bengal to change the status of Presidency College, Kolkata from a GovernmentCollege to a Unitary University. Instead, the Association proposes the formation of a state universitycomprising all the Government Colleges of West Bengal including Presidency College, as per the standingresolutions adopted in its previous Annual Conferences.

c) The house authorized the Executive Committee to chalk out follow-up movement programme on thisissue.

Meeting-II : 10th January, 2010

This meeting took place before the 38th Annual Conference. At this meeting,i) the house expressed concern about the health of former Chief Minister of West Bengal, Sri Jyoti Basu,

and wished his speedy recovery.ii) The Treasurer, Sri Arun Roy presented the draft Budget to be placed in the 38th Annual Conference. The

House concurred with his proposal and suggested minor changes.iii) The General Secretary read out the proposed report to be placed in the Annual Conference emphasizing

the following issues : (i) New Pay Scale, (ii) Part time Teachers, (iii) Payment of Arrears, (iv) Redistribution


of new posts created for Government Colleges, (v) Promotion from Reader to Professor’s post, (vi)Unitary university status of Presidency College and Association’s strong resentment on this matter.

iv) Sri Debasish Sarkar, Joint Secretary, read out the official resolutions to be proposed for endorsement atthe Annual Conference.

The members deliberated on the General Secretary’s report and the proposed Resolutions, and suggestedcertain changes which were duly accepted by the house.

i) The General Secretary also charted the roadmap of Association’s movement programme in the comingdays on the change of status of Presidency College. The members concurred with the proposals placedand suggested some modifications.

ii) The Annual subscription for membership was decided to be kept at Rs.700, which was to be tabled atthe ensuing Annual Conference.

iii) On the question of release of 20% arrears in connection with the revised pay scale, GS wrote a letter tothe Government urging payment in a single instalment.

Resolved that the GS would further write a letter to the Government protesting against its unprecedentedorder for releasing 20% arrears in 3 instalments.

Meeting-III : 17th March, 2010

At this extended General Council Meeting, the Unit Secretaries and Treasurers of different units, membersof the Election Commission and different subcommittee members were invited.

Issues Discussed :

(i) Proposed move by the Government to place the Presidency University Bill 2009 in the Budget sessionof the State Assembly.

(ii) To plan for Association’s movement programme in opposition to the Bill.


Sri H.N. Bhattacharya presided over the meeting.The General Secretary referred to the EC meeting of 15.3.2010 and to a letter addressed to the Minister in

Charge of Higher Education mentioning the demand of the Association regarding the Presidency University Bill2009. The GS reported about a meeting with MIC (HE) and expressed the apprehension that the Bill might beplaced in the State Assembly on 19.3.2010 for discussion, passage and subsequent enactment.

Sri Debasish Sarkar, Joint-Secretary, elaborated on how the Bill, if enacted, would open the door for privatizationin Higher Education and could lead to dilution of academic standards. He also recounted the Association’s relentlesseffort (in the past two months), to register its opposition to the Bill by way of discussion with different people,including members of the Legislative Assembly.

The members deliberated at length on different aspects of the Bill and on the course of movement programmeto be taken up shortly. The following resolutions were adopted:

(i) To call upon the Press (both Print and Electronic media) on 18th March, 2010 for communicating thedecisions of the GC meeting and to reiterate Association’s stand regarding the Presidency UniversityBill 2009.

(ii) All members shall observe cease-work on 19th March, 2010, in their respective Colleges(iii) To convene meetings at respective College Units to formally endorse the cease-work and to communicate

the same in writing to the Institutional heads.(iv) To participate in a Protest-rally on 19th March, 2010 from College Square to the State Assembly starting

at 12.00 noon and to handover a memorandum to the Speaker of the Assembly, thereby registering theAssociation’s strong protest against ‘The Presidency University Bill 2009’

(v) To convene a GC meeting on 20th March,2010 at 4.00 pm to take stock of our movement programme.


Meeting-IV : 20th March, 2010

Issues Discussed :

To decide upon further movement programme after the Protest-rally opposing the ‘The Presidency UniversityBill 2009’, in order to strengthen the demand of Association for creating an affiliating state university comprisingof all Government Colleges.


Sri Shyamal Kumar Chakraborty, Vice-President, presided over the meeting, in absence of the President. Hecongratulated all the members for the immensely successful protest rally, which was unprecedented in the historyof the Association’s.

The General Secretary also expressed his gratitude to all the members for their spontaneous participation inthe protest rally and invited proposals for the next course of action to be taken up by the Association.

The members deliberated on the issue and put forth various proposals relating follow-up movementprogramme. The proposals included: demonstration in support of Association’s demands, different forms of hungerstrike, arranging for a Convention to create awareness and to consolidate our demands, to meet the Governorand to submit to him our memorandum, seek solidarity from AIFUCTO and other fraternal organizations and toobserve ‘Demand Day’ on 20th August, 2010 (Association’s Foundation Day) to reiterate our demand for a StateUniversity comprising of all government colleges.

It was finally agreed that a Convention be organized at a suitable venue around College Street “to protestagainst Presidency University Bill 2009 and to consolidate support in favour of Association’s demand for a classifiedaffiliating university”. Also decided that renowned educationists and members of the academia along with formerteacher leaders be invited to the convention. All life members of the Association would also be requested to bepresent at the convention.

It was also resolved that the EC be authorized to take appropriate decisions about the proposed Conventionand to explore different forms of agitation floated by the members.

At the closing hours of the meeting, the General Secretary stated that despite sincere efforts, the Associationwas unable to prevent the split of Presidency College from WBES. He chose to take up the moral responsibility forthis failure and submit his resignation from the post of General Secretary the member however, requested him toreview his decision and withdraw his resignation.

Meeting-V : 27th March, 2010

Issues discussed :

Finalization of the modalities of the Convention to be organized and to chalk out further movement programmeto realize the demands of Association.


Sri Shyamal K.Chakraborty, in absence of the President, presided over the meeting. He apprised membersabout the submission of a Memorandum to the Governor of West Bengal and a subsequent meeting of Association’sdelegation (decided by EC) with His Excellency on 25th March, 2010. The text of the Memorandum submitted wasread out. President of the meeting also reported that EC, in its meeting of 22nd March, 2010, finally decided tohold the proposed convention on 3rd April, 2010 starting at 4.00 p.m. at the Sanskrit College.

Members deliberated on finalizing the list of speakers for the convention. There were suggestions to invitein the Convention, students, teachers of other colleges, fraternal organizations, non-teaching employees ofGovernment Colleges and renowned intellectuals, writers, poets and such other people. Suggestions, to invitefraternal organizations from other states, were also floated.

Resolved that selected educationists and leadership of fraternal organizations would be approached for theiractive participation in the Convention. Decided that all the College Units of Association would actively mobilizeand motivate members to participate in the Convention. The life members of our Association, AIFUCTO, ABSGCTAand WBCUTA would also be approached for participation.


On the question of carrying forward the movement programme, members expressed their angst about acrisis in a section of the leadership within the Executive Committee. Some members even wanted dissolution ofthe present Executive Committee. It was finally resolved that these issues be discussed threadbare in a GC meetingto be convened at a later date.

On matters arising, the members wanted to look into issues like payment of arrears of the revised pay scale,enhancement of retirement age to 65 years, regular and rational transfer and new appointments. It was decidedthat the Association would take initiative in pursuing these matters in real earnest .

Meeting-VI : 11th April, 2010

Issues discussed :

(i) Organizational Matters of the Association(ii) Movement Programme(iii) Matters Arising


Sri Shyamal K. Chakraborty, Vice-President, in absence of the President, presided over the meeting. Herecounted that the convention was organized successfully and appraised the house that a write-up, further detailingand emphasizing the misleading, discrepant and factual errors in the ‘Presidency University Bill 2009’, has beensubmitted to the Governor. He read out the full text of the write-up. He proclaimed that, though the present GCmeeting has been declared as an extended one, the resolutions adopted in the meeting would exclusively be thatof the General Council.

Members discussed the organizational matters of the Association, and focussed their attention on thefunctioning of the Executive Committee. Many opined that some members of the EC had not put in their sincereefforts in the last few months for carrying through the movement programme, even though it was directed to beso by the GC. Some members even observed that the probable reason behind it could be that a section of the EChad been shackled and hence could not perform in unison. Therefore a demand, to the extent of dissolution ofthe EC, gathered momentum. A few members, though, wanted to remove individual wrong-doers from the ECinstead of dissolving the entire EC. However, a very large section of the members sought dissolution of thepresent EC and the formation of a new EC by way of bye-election. Some members wanted a Steering Committeeto take charge in place of EC in the interim period, till the new EC, formed through bye-election, assumes charge.It was suggested that the old EC ought to continue in the interim period as care-taker, and to work in consultationwith the GC. Many members fervently appealed to the General Secretary to continue in his post and carry forwardthe movement programme.

Following resolutions were adopted in the meeting unanimously.:

i) The present Executive Committee be dissolved from the day of the meeting, the 11th April, 2010.ii) Further decided that the Election Commission be urged to draw-up a schedule for bye-election, leading

to the formation of new EC, at the earliest.iii) In the interim period, the existing Executive Committee would continue to act as care-taker (in

consultation with the General Council).

The General Council also appealed to Sri Syamal Kumar Basak to continue to act as General Secretary tillelection was held afresh for the post.

The General Council had also decided that these resolutions be circulated to all the College Units by SriShyamal Kumar Chakraborty, who presided over this meeting.


NOTICE22.04.2010

As advised by the General Council of WBGCTA vide the notice dated 11 .04.2010 (signed by Shyamal KumarChakraborty, Vice-President ,WBGCTA, who presided over G.C. meeting of the same date) , it is being notifiedthat the Bye-Elections of the Executive Council. barring that of the General Secretary, will be held according tothe following schedule.

SCHEDULE OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BYE-ELECTIONS 2010

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 A.M.

3. SCRUTINY OF NOMINATION PAPERS 04.05.2010 Tuesday 6.00 P.M.

4. PUBLICATION OF LIST OF CANDIDATES 04.05.2010 Tuesday After scrutiny

5. WITHDRAWAL OF NOMINATION PAPERS 05.05.2010 Wednesday 6.00 to 7.00 P.M.

6. PUBLICATION OF FINAL LIST OFCONTESTING CANDIDATES 06.05.2010 Thursday

7. POLL 23.05.2010 Sunday 11 .OOA.M. to 3.00 P.M.8. PUBLICATION OF LIST OF ELECTED CANDIDATES 25.05.2010 Tuesday 5.30 P.M.

Probal Mukherjee will act as the Returning Officer and Bijoy De will act as the Assistant Returning Officer ofthe Bye-Elections.

ChairpersonElection Commission. WBGCTA

Meeting-VII : 23rd May, 2010

Issues Discussed :

(i) Organizational affairs of the Association.(ii) Reporting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the AIFUCTO and to discuss about the

same.(iii) Matters arising in the meeting.


Shyamal Kr. Chakraborty. Vice-President, in absence of the President of the Association Swapan Bhattacharya,presided over the meeting.

President of the meeting narrated the background of the meeting, including the bye-election to EC.Treasurer of the Association, Arun Ray, mentioned about the annual subscription, as resolved in the 38th

Annual Conference, to be fixed at a total of Rs.500 per member, out of which, Rs10 (per subscription) would go tothe AIFUCTO fund.

Arun Ray, who attended the NEC (National Executive Committee) meeting of AIFUCTO, appraised the houseabout its proceedings. He reported that, the states of Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Manipur, Nagaland. Jharkhandhave so far enhanced the superannuation age to 65 years. He also reported that 40% of the arrears were already


disbursed in the states of Haryana and Goa. He elaborated on other issues discussed in the NEC meet like publicationof UGC regulations, CAS, Educational Tribunal, NAAC, formation of NCHER etc.

Debasish Sarkar, the other attendee to NEC meet from WBGCTA, told that our Association should initiatesuitable movement relating to the mentioned issues discussed in NEC. He mentioned that our Association couldexpress its views relating Presidency University Bill 2009 in the meeting, to which AIFUCTO expressed solidarityand reiterated that it was fighting against any unitary/deemed university and it would continue to do so. SriSarkar mentioned that activities, in the educational sector at the National level, are almost entirely being aimedto initiate privatization. He felt that the ensuing UGC regulation would create a divide between senior teachersand junior teachers. Regarding the issues related to the UGC regulation, AIFUCTO sent its views to MHRD, asdiscussed in the NEC meeting.

The President, referred to a communication from MHRD dated 11th May, 2010, opined that the same did notbring anything good for the teachers since the West Bengal Government has remained non-commital on theissue enhancement of superannuation age to 65 years.

Members deliberated at length on the scheduled agenda and related matters, from which following proposalswere put forward :

To reform the Training College Sub-Committee to a large extent by inclusion of new members and selectinga Convener anew.

Resignation submitted by Syamal Kumar Basak from the post of General Secretary was accepted and till theelection of a new General Secretary, Debasish Sarkar, Joint Secretary of the Association, would officiate as the GSincluding the banking operations as per the provision of the Article-6(D) (ix) of Part-VI D. of the Constitution ofWBGCTA.

To oppose any form of privatization in education the National and the State level.To send immediate communications to appropriate authority regarding release of 80 % of arrears to the

teachers and enhancement of superannuation age to 65 years and also to demand resolution of all service-related pending issues as a prelude to stronger future movement program to be pursued by the Association.

To keep-up with the protest against Presidency University Bill 2009 and also to carry on with our demand fora classified affiliating government university.

To demand for filling up of all vacant posts of teaching, non-teaching, librarian and other categories in allgovernment colleges.

To co-opt Syamal Kumar Basak within the fold of GC and this may be seen as an organizational demand.To initiate visits to the College Units by central leadership with immediate effect.To fix up 30.9.10 as the last date of membership for enrolling the name into the Electoral voter list.

After due deliberations on the above proposals, the house adopted certain specific resolutions.

Following resolutions were unanimously endorsed by the house :1. Association to oppose any form of privatization in the National and State educational sectors.2. Training College Sub-Committee be reformed as per suggestions from the house.3. Debasish Sarkar to officiate as the General Secretary of the Association including the banking operations

till election of a new GS.4. Letters would be sent to the MIC(HE) demanding release of 80 % arrears, 65 years as superannuation

age and speedy resolution of other relevant pending issues including strongest insistance on filling upof vacant posts in all categories.

5. Syamal Kumar Basak to inducted in the GC Resolved that 30.9.10 will be the last date of membershipfor enrolment in the Electoral Voter List.

Central leadership would start visiting the College Units soon.

Meeting-VIII : 11th July, 2010

Issues Discussed :

To chalk out the future action plan pf the Association in view of the emergent situation owing to HonourableGovernor’s approval (putting signature) on the Presidency University Bill 2009.


Proceedings and Resolutions :Swapan Bhattacharya, President of the Association, presided over the meeting. He initiated discussion

regarding the Presidency University Bill 2009 elaborating WBGCTA’s consistent and unbending opposition to thesame. Officiating General Secretary, Debasish Sarkar apprised the house about various other points of contemporaryconcern of the Association such as :

Non filling-up of vacancies of teaching, non-teaching and librarian’s posts and acute shortage of librarians ingovernment colleges (37 librarian posts are vacant out of a total of 68 posts).

Non-implementation of revised pay-scale for AICTE teaching staff.Non-enhancement of superannuation age to 65 years and non-payment of 80% of the arrears accumulated

with effect from 1.1.2006.Disparities and discriminations in the transfers of teachers.GS also narrated the sequence of events leading to the passage of Presidency University Bill 2009 and the

emerging situation after Honourable Governor’s approval of the same on 3rd July, 2010. He talked about a letterto be sent to the Chief Minister of West Bengal ventilating Association’s reaction in the aftermath of the Bill’sapproval and read out the draft of the same. He proposed observance of a protest day against the bill throughwearing of black badges and suggested that 20th August, the foundation day of Association, be observed as ademand day.

Members deliberated threadbare the future action plan. Various suggestions were given by members, suchas, observation of a protest-day along with dharna in front of Bikash Bhaban, mass gathering and mass deputation,tagging of all other demands of Association along with the protest-against-bill, observation of demand day on20.08.2010 through mass-demonstration or by activities of comparable magnitude etc. After long debate, houseadopted a set of resolutions regarding future action plan.


i) Letter to the CM was endorsed and the house decided that the same be sent by 12.07.2010.ii) Association members would observe the Protest-day, in their respective colleges, by wearing black-

badge on 14th July, 2010, Wednesday.iii) To organize a mass-dharna in front of Bikash Bhaban on 20th July, 2010, Tuesday, starting at 2.00 pm

and to submit a charter of demands to the MIC(HE) at around 3.30 pm. The charter of demands wouldinclude the demand to scrap Presidency University Bill and formation of an affiliating state university aswell as all other standing demands of the Association.

iv) To observe Demand-day on 20th August, 2010, the foundation-day of the Association.No other issues remaining to be discussed, the meeting ended with thanks to the chair.

Meeting-IX : 8 th August, 2010

Minutes of the G. C. Meeting held on 8.8.10 at 3.00 PM.

i) The house confirmed the minutes of G. C. Meeting held on 11.7.2010ii) The House expressed Concern over fuzzy areas in the Presidency Univ. Bill which creates confusion

among the members.iii) The house expressed deep concern on the demands raised in favour of Changing the status of some

Govt. Colleges from College to University.

Proceedings and Resolution :

i) The G. S. apprised the house about the Gazette Notification of Presidency Bill 2009.ii) The members of Govt. Engineering & Technological Colleges expressed their grievances against the

move of the Govt. to extend autonomy to these colleges.iii) Letter to CM given urging for State University.iv) Dharna at Bikash Bhavan held on 20.7.10v) Charter of demand placed to the MIC, H.E. on 20.7.10



i) Arrear from 1.1.06 be disbursed in one installment as early as possibleii) AICTE pay scale be implemented with suitable corrigendum immediately.iii) Retirement age of Principals, Teachers, Librariains & Phy. Int. be enhanced from 60 to 65.iv) Necessary G. O. be issued for granting leave for attending PhD/M. Phil Course work.v) Govt’s move of extending autonomy to 6 Govt. Engineering & Technological Colleges be opposed.vi) All G. C. & E. C. members should abide by the decision taken in the G. C. & E. C. meetings.vii) Demand Day to be observed on 20.8.10viii) A Road Map for proposed University of Bengal be prepared.ix) A sit-in-Demonstration in front of Vidyasagar Statue at College Square, on 20.8.10 from 1.00 p.m. to

4.00 p.mx) N.E.C Reporting on 20.8.10.


Sub-Committee

Library Sub-Committee

Date : 10.07.2010

Discussion

● Developments regarding inclusion of Govt. College Librarians under a constituent service was discussed. Itwas reported that the Dept. of Finance has noted that no service can be created for only sixty-eight people.The file is now with the Dept. of Higher Education via the West Bengal Pay Commission.Proposed that WBGCTA will reiterate its long-time stand and move to all concerned authorities for inclusionof Librarians in WBES with the designation ‘‘Librarian, WBES’’.

● Recruitment was acknowledged as the most pressing need, as thirty-seven posts are vacant and four collegesare without any librarian at all. Recruitment of librarians is being held up, although recruitments in someother subjects with same entry-level qualifications are being processed. In the opinion of the G. S., a sharpreaction is called for, and MIC should be informed that all library services will be stopped completely ifimmediate recruitment is not done.

● The urgent need for uniform staff-pattern for libraries was put forward by many members and acknowledgeby the Chair. Proposed that drawing up of a uniform staff-pattern be given priority and a model pattern forGovt. College libraries be designed and that work on it must start immediately.

Engineering and Technological College Sub-Committee

Date : 22.04.10 and 11.05.2010

Two meetings of the Engineering and Technological College Sub-Committee of WBGCTA have been held in2010 on 22.4.2010 and 11.5.2010. Salient points resolved and/or discussed in the said meetings are listed in thefollowing :

Agenda : Regarding the Issue of Pay Scale Implementation

Members expressed their grievance and views in both the meetings held on 22/4/2010 and 11/5/2010 inconnection with the delay in implementation of the recommendations of the 6t~ pay commission for engineeringand technology college teachers even after the Government Gazette Notification, when the teachers under UGCregulation have started enjoying the same under the same Higher Education Department.

However, with the active persuasion of the WBGCTA, the GO. regarding the recommendations of the 6~ paycommission was published by the Govt. of West Bengal on 26.7.2010. This was only become possible through theeffort exerted by the WBGCTA, and thanks are due to all concerned.

Agenda : Regarding TEQIP Phase II Project

Majority of members from the TEQIP implementing colleges opined that although something was doneusing this grant worth noting, number of problems also cropped up during its implementation and even aftercompletion of TEQIP phase I with regards to utilization of the equipment, LR, etc. procured and failure of networkingactivities among different institutions. Differences in opinion have cropped up with regard to implementation ofWorld Bank assisted TEQIP Phase II Project among the members in the meetings. While majority of membersopined against implementing TEQIP Phase II due to its conditions related to autonomy, staff and teacher shortage,the agenda related to hike in tuition fee for students, etc., few members expressed that the fund is needed fordevelopment of the college. Decided that meetings would have to be held in each college unit to decide on thematter. In general, the stand of the WBGCTA against granting autonomy to the college is reiterated.


Agenda : Miscellaneous

Status Regarding Filling up of the Vacant Positions: Acute shortage of faculty, technical staff and other staffexisting in different departments and office of the six Govt. colleges. Resolved that steps be taken to moveappropriate authorities to recruit faculty and staff against the existing vacant posts~ immediately; posts are to becreated for the three M.Tech courses offered at Kalyani Govt. Engineering College similar to those sanctioned inother Govt. Engineering and Technological colleges.

Physical Education Sub-Committee Meeting

Date : 13.05.2010

The meeting of the sub-committee was held on 13.05.2010 in the Association Office.Swapan Bhattacharya, President of the Association was in the Chair. After a detail deliberation, following

resolutions were adopted unanimously in the meeting:(i) Two designations for the same service and in the same scale of pay, is very much confusing and

therefore, there should be only one designation, i.e, Lecturer in Physical Education I Asst. Professorin Physical Education.

(ii) Since Physical Instructors and Lecturer in Physical Education are doing the same of job i.e. Class roomteaching, in Training Colleges and General Degree Colleges, where Physical Education is an electivesubject, therefore Physical Instructors be re-designated to the Post of Lecturer in Physical Education.

(iii) As per Memo No — 88- Edn (A) I 5P-116/09 dated 18.02.2010, all the teachers in Govt. Colleges alongwith Physical Instructors be redesignated as per U.G.C recommendations.

(iv) Service cadre (W.B.E.S) will immediately be accorded to the Physical Instructors enjoying the scale ofpay 37400/- - 67000/- and rendering class room teaching from U.G to P.G level along with otherduties in Govt. Training Colleges.

(v) Financial benefits for the teachers in the same service with same qualification will be the same andas such Ph.D. benefits should be accorded to the Physical Instructors having Ph.D. Degree and renderingEquivalent class-room teaching.

(vi) Govt. be urged to introduce the subject ‘Physical Education ‘as an elective subject to all the Generaldegree colleges in right earnest.

(vii) Govt. be urged to create the post of Asst.Professor in Physical Education in all degree college in placeof Physical Instructor/Instructress which are lying vacant due to superannuation.

(viii) Govt. be urged to fill up the vacant post of teachers and Principal in Training Colleges to retain therecognitions of N.C.T.E.

Press and Publication sub-Committee

Date : 09.09.2010 and 10.09.2010

Sri Swapan Bhattacharya was in the chair.The draft news letter of the Association was read, accepted and the following resolution was adopted

unanimously .Resolved that the draft newsletter was accepted for publication and necessary print order be issued with

immediate effect.



OUR VIEWS

Transforming Presidency College into a so-called Unitary UniversityA Note of Disagreement

08-12-2009

The Governing Body of Presidency College in its meeting held on November 3, 2009 resolved in favour of up-gradation of the college to a Unitary University, concurring with a report from its existing Principal.

The rationale behind this proposal appears to be, its sustenance as a Centre of Excellence.We have attempted to probe the issue in its real perspective. We like to record our observations in the

following paragraphs.

1. The status of ‘Centre of Excellence’ is more mythical than real, since the college has only been defined asan institution with potential for excellence by the UGC. Needless to say that a number of government andnon-government colleges enjoy the same status awarded by the UGC. So the claim is not unique to PresidencyCollege. The same logic of sustenance of status through up-gradation into a university holds good also forthese colleges.

2. Certain figures have been misconceived, misconstrued and seem to be bordering on garbled version oftruth.

a) Only nine PG courses have been taught for more than five years and others are just of late introduced. Inthis regard, the journey of the College is not of long standing, excepting one or two departments whichmay be credited with long experience PG teaching. It will not be out of place to mention here thatbarring Haldia Government College, all other Government Colleges have been offering PG courses for aconsiderable period. The number of subjects in which the PG courses are offered in these collegesveers round 62. M. Phil courses are also offered in three Govt colleges. Interestingly, a number ofsubjects in which PG courses are offered in such colleges have longer standing to their credit than thePG teaching in the corresponding subjects in Presidency College and there are also Govt. colleges offeringPG programmes in subjects which are not taught by their respective affiliating universities.

So Presidency College is not enjoying the pride of place so far as PG teaching is concerned. Theother government colleges that are enjoying the same status of PG teaching may smart under injusticeand neglect if Presidency College is singled out for the award of the status of the university.

b) The library system is yet to be modernized in Presidency College. Digitization of library is a scheme thatis running not only in Presidency College but also in other Government colleges. This has been possiblethrough generous flow of fund from the State Government to all Government Colleges. Rare books andmanuscripts in Presidency College library lie idle because of lack of or poor restoration work. Of course,libraries in old institutions like Hooghly Mohsin College, Sanskrit College, Krishnanagar GovernmentCollege, David hare Training College and Acharya B N Seal College are not free from this malady.

c) Presidency College laboratories are yet to rise to the demand of the time, viz. interdisciplinary activities.The college authorities flaunt its laboratories to be knowledge-sourcing agencies. Whether this claim isattested by any academic audit has not been made clear. The results of the autonomous PG departmentsput up a picture in contrast. The costly equipment in the labs are reportedly under-utilized. There is anallegation that had they been put to proper use, students could have benefitted from them.

3. a) It sounds quite a tall claim that the cream of the students’ world is admitted to Presidency College

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alone through the so-called admission tests. Even in the recent past there was a real craze for admission(UG) in the college, in view of its glorious heritage which, of late, has gone down the scale as evincedfrom the fact that seats remain vacant in a good number of departments in spite of repeated publicationof admission lists. We should also bear in mind the fact that considering academic and infrastructuralaspects, the UGC has awarded autonomous status to St. Xavier’s College and two other MissionaryColleges, where meritorious students also throng, besides other government and non-governmentcolleges in the city. An astounding fact is that in the last three decades, the districts of West Bengalhave shown laudable signs of academic shine, as evident from results of the stage-end examinationslike Madhyamik and Higher Secondary. This has paved the way for meritorious students from districtspreferring district government and non government colleges. On this count, as an analogous effort ofup-gradation of Presidency College to a University, the district colleges would appear to deserve thesame consideration.

Another important point is that the practice of so-called admission test ( for UG courses ) is recentand fraught with many disputed and disturbing questions.

b) On close scrutiny of the performance of the UG students from colleges affiliated to different universities,an interesting fact is revealed. The toppers and meritorious students do not prefer Presidency Collegefor their PG studies. It is also a curious instance that the syllabi of different PG courses run in PresidencyCollege are not available in any Public Domain whatsoever. The principle of ‘programmed instruction’in the PG courses is thus conspicuous by its absence. The in-house examination system at the PG levelin Presidency College is virtually a closed door one, since the evaluation system, right from setting ofquestion papers, their moderation to looking over scripts, the quantum of intervention of externalacademic experts is invariably absent or negligible from department to department. On top of it,instances are not negligible of ad-hoc changes of questions in the examination hall to make up for anydeficiency in curriculum transaction. A travesty of “enormous experience to function independently” isthat the number of low-achievers at the PG level is not insignificant. Besides the fact some departmentseven record failures in spite of this so-called tall claim regarding autonomous PG teaching. The mismatchbetween the performance of the college at UG level as evident from the CU results, and its performanceat the PG level, is glaring.

c) Be it a university of long-standing or a college turned into a university, some loss of time in respect ofcurriculum transaction is unavoidable if the system of examination is allowed to continue. So, the claimof making up such loss by just upgrading a college into a university is nothing short of specious logic.

In Part-System of examination, publication of results is often delayed. This has been the experiencefor quite a long time. Every college authorities fill up the gap by starting classes for the subsequentparts prior to the publication of results. But such a situation should not be allowed to continue and allconcerned should rise to the occasion to remedy it.

4. There is no bar in the Act, Statutes, Regulations and Rules of any affiliating university that anundergraduate college cannot engage its students in summer projects / research / review work / hands-on training, etc. during vacations and recesses, provided the mission and the vision of the college areoriented towards that goal. And Presidency College has recorded no such move till now. We may recallthat the international fame of the Presidency College has been built on its achievement in UG teachingin spite of the fact of its being long affiliated to the University of Calcutta. Moreover, if, thanks to PGteaching opportunities, research projects are properly monitored, the accumulated knowledge willtrickle down to the last rung of various courses of study offered by the college. Merely the status ofuniversity cannot be an answer to any lack of initiatives on academic matters.

5. a) All India Fellowships to PG students are awarded under UGC schemes like JRF, SRF etc., for whichindividual students are to apply through colleges and get selected after successfully fulfilling certaincriteria including examinations and viva voce. If proper stock-taking of performance of the students ofthe Presidency College is made, the truth may come out.

b) Extension of affiliation of a good variety of subjects by the University of Calcutta could open up greateroptions for subjects at the UG level, provided the college takes adequate initiative for this.

6. a) The service of the Government college teachers is regulated by the WBSR. Hence, Study Leave is availableonly in the case of higher studies. The limitations in respect of grant of Study Leave are not exclusive toPresidency College. There are time-honoured rules governing foreign travel, for attending international


conferences/symposia on the part of Govt. college teachers, as well as university/non-governmentcollege teachers. How can the mere status of a university alter the picture is not clear. If certain extraprivileges are provisioned by the creation of a new university, the teacher of Presidency College willhave to forgo the status of Government servant. And here lies an imbroglio. Since all GovernmentCollege teachers are selected by the PSC, opportunity of opting out of Government Service in order tobecome a member of the University Staff should be extended to all teachers of all Government colleges,in the interest of equity.

b) The PSC is a sacrosanct body so far as its selection procedures are concerned. It is an unpardonableinfradig at PSC when a College-turned University authority is given supremacy over such an augustinstitution. We may recall that internationally famed teachers like Prof T N Sen, Prof B Datta ( Econ ),Prof A Ray Chowdhury, Prof Shyamal Sen, Prof Mihir Rakhit, Prof Dipak Banerjee, Prof DebipadaBhattacharya, Prof Bhudeb Chowdhury, Prof Bhupes Mukherjee, Prof Amal Mukhopadhyay, et al werePSC nominees.

7. Funding by DST, FIST, DBT do not depend upon whether an institution is a college or a university. Thereare provisions for both types of institutions. So far as we know, some departments of Presidency Collegehave already got such funding. Moreover, the State Government allocates more than Rs. 15 crore (otherthan buildings grants and its maintenance) every year for the college, against the paltry sum of a fewlac of rupees allocated by the above central fundings.Strangely, it has been claimed that the may withdraw fund if a college is not raised to the status of auniversity. This submission should be checked with the concerned funding agencies.

The points raised above contradict the specious arguments for upgrading Presidency College to University.● The jurisdiction of the Governing Body of a Government college like Presidency College to resolve on

any change of status of the college is open to question, in the context of the Government Order definingits jurisdiction under No. 304 Edn(A) dt.22-5-1995.

● The submission by the college authority is surprisingly silent about the views of the Teachers’ Councilof the Presidency college.

● Moreover there is no record till date about any serious study by any group/body of academic experts,for the proposed change of status of Presidency college.

Danger of Unitary Status

● The standard of teaching is likely to fall in the event of laxity of self discipline as evident from thepresent state of affairs and absence of healthy competition in most of the PG courses in Presidencycollege.

● A separatist attitude would be promoted in particular in government colleges like Darjeeling GovernmntCollege (Darjeeling District), Acahrya B N Seal College (Coochbehar District), Jhargram GovernmentCollege (West Medinipur), Krishnanagar Government College (Nadia District), Hooghly Mohsin College(Hooghly District) and Maulana Azad College (Kolkata) where similar demands exist for a long period.

● In the name of ‘centre of excellence’ Foreign Educational Providers would get a berth in the field ofHigher Education in our State (where such a legislative initiative has already been taken by the UPA-2Govt.).

● In the name of ‘quality’ and ‘fair’ selection, students from the disadvantaged sections of the societywould be more and more excluded ( as can be ascertained from the ratio of SC/ST/Minority students tothe total number of students attending Presidency college in any academic year).

Our Proposal

Keeping this as the main focus, and considering the felt need for a University affiliating all GovernmentColleges (vide the resolution taken in the General Body of the West Bengal Government College Teachers’Association), we propose that a federative university be established.

The model required for such a Government-College–specific University is already there. The structure andjurisdiction of West Bengal University of Health Sciences uphold the principle of affiliating system which runscounter to centralization in the name of unitary system. Taking Government Colleges as the only constituentaffiliates of a State University, as proposed by us, is another way of forming a classified university. (Thenomenclatures “University of Technology”, “University of Health Sciences” etc. are exercises in classification).

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Press Conference : 08-12-2009

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Press Note on the proposed “Presidency University”

The Governing Body of the Presidency College in its meeting held on November 3, 2009 resolved in favour ofupgradation of the college to a Unitary University concurring with a report from its existing Principal.

The rationale behind this proposal is its sustenance as a Centre of Excellence status.We have attempted to probe the issue in its real perspectives. We like to record our observations in the

following paragraphs:1. The UGC has conferred Presidency College the status of an Institution with Potential for

Excellence. Needless to say, a number of government and non-government colleges enjoy the same statusawarded by the UGC. The logic of sustenance of such status through upgradation into a university holdsgood also for these colleges, especially, the Govt. Colleges.

2. Certain facts have been misconceived, misconstrued and seem to be bordering on a sort of garbled versionof the truth:

a) Only nine PG courses have been taught for more than five years in that college and others are just oflate introduced (barring the long-standing practice of admission to the University of Calcutta throughPresidency College). In this regard the journey of this college alone is not of historical standing. It willnot be out of place to mention here that a number of Government Colleges have been offering PGcourses for a considerable period. The number of subjects in which the PG courses are offered in thesecolleges is 60 odd. M. Phil courses are also offered in three Govt colleges (Presidency Coliege is beingan exception in this regard). Interestingly a number of subjects in which PG courses offered in suchcolleges have a longer history to their credit than PG teaching in the corresponding subjects in PresidencyCollege. Importantly, there are Govt. colleges offering PG programmes in subjects which are not taughtby the respective affiliating universities.So the contention that the Presidency College alone enjoys place of pride so far as PG teaching isconcerned, is a sheer travesty of fact. Other Govt. colleges that enjoy the same status of PG teachingmay smart under injustice and neglect, if Presidency College alone is singled out for the award of thestatus of a university.

b) ‘Digitization of library’ is a scheme that is running not only in Presidency College but also in otherGovernment colleges. This has been possible through generous flow of fund from the State Governmentto all Government Colleges. The plea for secession from Govt. control under the umbrella of a Universityfor development, including a facelift of the library system, does not hold good as digitisation of thelibraries of the Govt. colleges is progressing through the State Govt. initiatives and fund flow.

c) Laboratories in the Govt. colleges in general are of commendable standards thanks to the judiciousfund flow from the State Govt. Presidency College is no exception in this respect.

3. Notwithstanding the claim that meritorious students get admitted to Presidency College through its systemof the so-called Admission Test, and remarkable fact is that the districts showing laudable signs of academicshine as evident from the results of the stage-end examinations like Madhyamik and Higher Secondary,have been preferring the government colleges of the districts of West Bengal. The district Govt. collegesmay claim some uplifted status on this count alone.


4. Concernec against the trend of centralization championed by the proposed formation of National Councilfor Higher Education and Research (NCHER), on the basis of the recommendation of the Prof. Yash PalCommittee, we are of the view that the transformation of Presidency College into a Unitary University isnothing but paving the way for centralization of the education system and encouraging some elitist bias.The attack of the neo-liberal dispensation does not stop at the level of privatization and commercializationof education. The proposed reforms in higher and technical education as envisaged in the NCHER, wouldstiffle the possibility of diversity and innovation, which are cardinal for ensuring quality in higher educationthrough involvement of the mass. The campaign for any form of centralism strikes at the very root ofeducation.We believe, the contemplation of a Unitary University out of one Government College (Presidency College)is a striking example of centralization.

In view of the above, our particular and pointed proposal is:

considering the felt-need for a University comprising all Government Colleges (vide the resolution takenin the General Body of the West Bengal Government College Teachers’ Association way back in 1999) a federativeUniversity be established with all Government colleges as affiliating units under the contemplated University,in whatever name be it called.

The model required for such a conception of Government-College—specific University is already there. Thestructure and jurisdiction of West Bengal University of Health Sciences uphold the principle of affiliating systemwhich runs counter to centralization in the name of unitary system. Taking Government Colleges as the onlyconstituent affiliates of the State University under our proposal, is another way of forming a classified university.(The nomenclatures “West Bengal University of Technology”, “West Bengal University of Health Sciences” etc.are exercises in classification).

It may be recalled that the Govt. Colleges were established as Model Colleges. The West Bengal PublicService Commission (WBPSC) is entrusted with the recruitment of teachers of real merit through stringentrecruitment norms. Eminent teachers have been recruited through the WBPSC for serving in Govt. Colleges allover the State. Teachers of long repute and profound scholarship served these colleges without bothering aboutthe so-called pilgrimage to Presidency College. Considering this primacy of status of Govt. college teachers, westrongly feel that a “model” University may come up with the “model” Govt. Colleges as its affiliating units.

Dated, Kolkata,The 8 December, 2009 (Syamal Kumar Basak)

General SecretaryWBGCTA

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To Dated : Kolkata the 11th Day of January 2010The Hon’ble Minister in ChargeDepartment of Higher EducationGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt Lake City, Kolkata - 700091

Subject : Payment of 20% of arrears in the revised UGC Pay Scales 2006.Ref : GO No 1157 Edn(A) and 1158 Edn(A) dt. 23-12-2009.

Sir,In connection with the Government Orders referred to above, we are constrained to point out that payment

of 20% of arrears and that too in instalments is without any precedent in Government Colleges. We demand yournecessary intervention for the release of full arrears in a single instalment for the period 01-01-2006 to 31-03-2009, as early as possible.

Thank you.Yours sincerely

(Syamal Kumar Basak)General Secretary, WBGCTA

From Syamal Kumar BasakGeneral SecretaryWest Bengal Government College Teachers’ Association

To Prof. Asok Barman Date : 30-01-2010General Secretary, AIFUCTO

Dear Prof. Barman,On behalf of WBGCTA, let me express my heartfelt thanks for your gracious presence at our 38th Annual

Conference. Your address, especially on autonomous colleges and deemed/unitary universities, was mostreassuring to our members.

At the Business Session on 24th January, 2010, the members unanimously expressed their anguish, dismayand strong resentment at the attempt to single out Presidency College for converting it into a unitary university,on the specious plea of an emotive appeal that the college carries with it. Strangely, the members of our Associationwere kept in the dark all along, about this development. For more than a decade, we have been demanding all-round and uniform development of all government colleges (that are labelled “model colleges” by the governmentitself), by forming a federal university comprising all government colleges in the state. While we remain convincedthat this is the best and the only way to ensure optimal utilisation of resources in these colleges, our long-standing demand remains largely unheeded.

It was resolved unanimously, that this move to convert Presidency College into a unitary university will beopposed through appropriate movement programmes to be drawn up by our General Council and the ExecutiveCommittee. It was further resolved, that the Association will press for the demand for creating a separate federativestate university comprising all government colleges in the state.

We solicit your help, cooperation and the solidarity of all AIFUCTO affiliates in opposing the ill-conceivedmove for Presidency University. At the same time, we seek your support for our struggle for a separate federativestate university of government colleges.

Long live AIFUCTOLong live teachers’ movement

With warm regards,

(Syamal Kumar Basak)General Secretary, WBGCTA


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ToThe Hon’ble Minister-in-Charge Dated : 17th day of March, 2010Higher Education DepartmentGovernment of West Bengal.Bikash Bhavan, Salt Lake.

Sub : Cease Work and Rally By members of WBGCTA on 19-03-2010.Sir,

As you are aware our Association strongly opposes the proposed ‘The Presidency University Bill 2009’ whichseeks to abolish the century-old status of Presidency College as a government institution and turn it into a unitaryuniversity.

All our efforts to reason with you has failed. Hence, with no other alternative, we have resolved to participatein a Protest rally on 19-03-2010. The members of WBGCTA would observe cease-work on that day.

This is for your information.

Thanking you,

Sincerely Yours,

Syamal Kumar BasakGeneral Secretary, WBGCTA

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ToThe Hon’ble SpeakerWest Bengal Legislative AssemblyBidhan Sabha BhavanKolkata. Dated : Kolkata, The 18th day of March, 2010

Sub : Submission of memorandum on the afternoon of 19 March 2010.

Sir,Our Association strongly oppose the proposed ‘ The Presidency University Bill 2009’ which seeks to abolish

the age-old status of Presidency College as a government institution. All our efforts to reason with the concernedauthorities has failed. Hence, with no other alternative, we seek the intervention of your good office in theinterest of public education. For this purpose, the government teachers has resolved to participate in a rally on19th March, 2010 to submit a memorandum to your kind office in the afternoon.

Thanking you,Sincerely Yours,


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!Ó Ï¢£ÏK˛ Ü˛!ü!ê˛ Ä !Óôyö§û˛yÓ˚ Ü˛!ü!ê˛Ä ˛õ!Ó˚Ü˛yë˛y Ïüy Ó,!k˛Ó˚ §% õy!Ó˚¢ Ü˛ ÏÓ˚ ÏåÈ–

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ˆÜ˛w §Ó˚Ü˛yÓ˚ ö Ï°ç Ü˛!ü¢ö !Ó Ïò!¢ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚ ã˛y°% •zï˛ƒy!ò ≤Ã ÏŸ¿ !¢«˛y Ä çyï˛#Î˚ fl∫yÌ≈!Ó ÏÓ˚yô#ñ à!Ó˚Ó !Ó ÏÓ˚yô# ö#!ï˛ !öˆÏÎ˚

ã˛ Ï° ÏåÈ–

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Ä åÈye# xyÓy Ï§ Ü˛ü áÓ˚ Ïã˛ ˆÌ ÏÜ˛ñ Ü˛ü ˆÓï˛ Ïö ˛õ Ïí ¸ñ à ÏÓ£Ïîy Ü˛ ÏÓ˚ ˆò Ï¢Ó˚ Ä ≤Ã!ï˛¤˛y ÏöÓ˚ ü%á í˛zIμ° Ü˛ ÏÓ˚ ÏåÈ– ˆ≤Ã!§ Ïí˛!™ §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚

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ˆÌ ÏÜ˛ Ó‡ =î Ü˛ü–

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ToThe Hon’ble Speaker Date : Kolkata, The 19th Day of March,2010West Bengal Legislative Assembly, Kolkata

Sub: Submission of MemorandumSir,

As per our letter on this issue dated 18/03/2010, we enclose a memorandum on ‘The Presidency UniversityBill, 2009’, in accordance with the resolution adopted by our Association.

Thanking you.

(Syamal Kumar Basak)General Secretary

Memorandum

We, the members of West Bengal Government College Teachers’ Association (WBGCTA), want to express ourdeep anguish over the proposed ‘Presidency University Bill, 2009’, which is under consideration in the presentsession of the W.B. Legislative Assembly.

We would like to submit the following facts and areas of concern, for your perusal and intervention.1. Presidency College has a heritage of 193 years in which it excelled as a premier institution primarily

catering to undergraduate education. We fail to understand the reason behind the proposed change ofstatus of this college. Such an attempt to jettison Government’s stake in Higher Education goes againstthe principles of this Government. We strongly oppose any such move.

2. The concept of deemed/unitary university has failed to meet its objective as evidenced by the proposalto scrap the deemed university status of several institutions across the country.We feel that it would be unwise to gamble with the future of an institution such as Presidency College,which has earned its repute as an undergraduate college.

3. It may be pointed out that five more Government Degree Colleges such as A.B.N. Seal College, KrishnagarGovernment College, Lady Brabourne College, Bethune College and Maulana Azad College have alreadybeen recognised by the U.G.C. as ‘Centre with Potential for Excellence’. All other Government Collegesare equally equipped to scale such heights. Under the circumstances, our proposal to link all theGovernment degree Colleges under a common umbrella of a classified affiliating state university hasfallen on deaf ears. Incidentally, this mode of resource-sharing is already in vogue in the W.B. Universityof Technology and the W.B. University of Health Sciences. We do feel that the model proposed by uscan successfully meet the challenges posed by the Foreign Education providers whose entry into thecountry is being ensured by the central government.

4. The proposed bill jeopardises the concept of equality and justice in several service cadres including theWBES and WBSES. Any such move to segregate Presidency College from the cadre, smacks of elitismand is detrimental for the progress of education.

5. Many poor and meritorious students have had the opportunity to study in Presidency College andearned laurels home and abroad. We apprehend that the present bill paves the way for privatizationand might severely restrict the scope of their entry into this institution.

6. It is universally known that a non-affiliating unitary mode adversely affects the transparency,accountability and credibility of the teachers and the taught. Presidency College has had its share ofglory first under the Indian Education Service, Bengal Education Service and presently under the WestBengal Education Service as an undergraduate college under Calcutta University, all along under thetime-tested affiliating system.

We feel, the present move poses too high a risk that could cause irreparable damage to a governmentinstitution which has earned repute and glory over a period of 193 years.

We solicit your kind intervention in resolving this undesirable development resulting from a hasty andimpetuous move, without taking into consideration the views of the Association.


ToThe Hon’ble GovernorWest BengalRaj Bhavan, Kolkata

Sub : Submission of memorandum on the ‘The Presidency University Bill, 2009’.

Respected Sir,

We strongly resent the manner in which the said bill was hastily rushed through, without allowing governmentcollege teachers to express their views on the matter. Our repeated pleas have been summarily brushed aside.

In the interest of democracy, natural justice and what the Bill portends for this famous government college,we earnestly solicit a proper review of the Bill and your kind audience on the matter, at your earliest convenience.

We enclose a memorandum on this co~ntroversiaI Bill, for your kind perusal and action as necessary.Thanking you,

Yours faithfully Dated: Kolkata,(SYAMAL KUMAR BASAK) The 22nd day of March, 2010General Secretary

End. Our memorandum

Memorandum

The members of the association express their utter dismay and anguish over the manner in which a degreegovernment college of world- fame is sought to be dismembered from its service cadre and its name erased fromthe pages of Indian history. The controversial ‘Presidency University Bill, 2009’ was rushed through in secrecywithout taking any cognizance of our considered views on the matter.

The government college teachers, being appointed by your supreme authority, have been protesting againstthis ill-conceived move from the time the idea was first mooted. On Friday last (19th March, 2010), they took outa massive rally to the W.B. Legislative Assembly and handed over a memorandum addressed to the Hon’blespeaker.

We briefly state the following facts and our considered opinion on the matter for your perusal and kindconsideration.

1. Presidency College has a heritage of 193 years in which it excelled as a premier Institution primarilycatering to undergraduate education in basic disciplines. We fail to understand the reason behind theproposed change of status of this college.We strongly oppose any such move.

2. The proposed Bill jeopardises the concept of equality and natural justice in several service cadresincluding the WBES and WBSES. Any such move to segregate Presidency College from the cadre isdetrimental for the progress of education.

3. The concept of deemed/unitary university has failed to meet its objective as evidenced by the proposalto scrap the deemed university status of several Institutions across the country.We feel that it would be unwise to gamble with the future of an institution such as Presidency College,which has earned its repute as an undergraduate college.

4. It may be pointed out that five more Government Degree Colleges such as A.B.N. Seal College, KrishnagarGovernment College, Lady Brabourne College, Bethune College and Maulana Azad College have alreadybeen recognised by the U.G.C. as ‘Centre with Potential for Excellence’. All other Government Collegesare equally equipped to scale such heights. Under the circumstances, we have proposed to link all theGovernment degree colleges under a common umbrella of a classified affiliating state university. Our

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plea has fallen on deaf ears. Incidentally, this mode of resource-sharing is already in vogue in theW.B.University of Technology and the W.B.University of Health Sciences. We assert that the modelproposed by us can successfully meet the challenges posed by the Foreign Education providers in thecoming days.

5. Many poor and meritorious students have had the opportunity to study in Presidency College andearned laurels home and abroad. We apprehend that the present bill paves the way for privatizationmaking it an easy prey for corporate/ industrial houses/ Foreign Education providers keen to usurp theCollege’s brand name. Under these circumstances, the entry of such students to this institution mightbe severally restricted.

6. It is universally known that a non-affiliating unitary mode adversely affects the transparency,accountability and credibility of the teachers and the taught. Presidency College has had its share ofglory first under the Indian Education Service, followed by the Bengal Education Service and presentlyunder the West Bengal Education Service, as an undergraduate college under Calcutta University, allalong under the time-tested affiliating system. A unitary status, we feel, would suddenly place thestudents in a cloistered, self-proclaimed glory where excellence could be questioned.

We feel, the present move poses too high a risk that could cause irreparable damage to a governmentinstitution which has earned repute and glory over a period of 193 years. Let us explore every feasible avenue toimprove infrastructure, teaching and research, evolve advanced pedagogic methods and introduce reforms inexamination and evaluation system, retaining Presidency as a Government college.

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~Ü˛ê˛y ˙!ï˛•ƒÓy•# xyhsˇç≈y!ï˛Ü˛ áƒy!ï˛§¡õß¨ ≤Ã!ï˛¤˛yöˆÏÜ˛ xyÓ˚ ˛õÑyã˛ê˛y àï˛yö%à!ï˛Ü˛ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°ˆÏÎ˚ ˛õ!Ó˚îï˛ Ü˛Ó˚yÓ˚

ˆày˛õö ≤ÃˆÏã˛‹Ty⁄ !Ó° ˆÓ¢ Ü˛Ó˚yÓ˚ ˛õÓ˚ ò%ÛÓyÓ˚ §!ü!ï˛Ó˚ ≤Ã!ï˛!ö!ôÓ˚y !àˆÏÎ˚!åÈˆÏ°ö í˛zFã˛ !¢«˛yüsf#Ó˚ Ü˛yˆÏåÈ §òÌ≈Ü˛ ˆÜ˛yö

Ü˛Ìy ˆ¢yˆÏöö!ö–

3– xy§ˆÏ° Úˆ§^ˇê˛yÓ˚ xú˛ ~ˆÏ:ˆÏ°™Û àí˛¸yÓ˚ öyˆÏü ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ˆÏÜ˛ ~Ü˛!ê˛ §yôyÓ˚î üyˆÏöÓ˚ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°ˆÏÎ˚ ˛õ!Ó˚îï˛ Ü˛Ó˚yÓ˚

x˛õˆÏã˛‹Ty •ˆÏFåÈ– ~Ü˛Ü˛ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°ˆÏÎ˚ Ó˚*˛õyhsˇ!Ó˚ï˛ •ˆÏ° ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™Ó˚ üyˆÏöÓ˚ xÓöüö •ˆÏÓ– ÓyÓ˚y§ï˛ ˆfiê˛ê˛

•zí˛z!öû˛y!§≈!ê˛ñ üy°òˆÏ•Ó˚ ˆàÔí˛¸ÓD !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚ñ !§ô% Ü˛yö% !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚ !ÓˆÏ°Ó˚ §ˆÏD ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚ !Ó°

2009ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ ˆÜ˛yö ï˛ú˛yÍ ˆö•z– ˛õ%Ó˚ˆÏöy !Ó° Ü˛!¡õí˛zê˛yˆÏÓ˚ Ü˛!˛õ ˆ˛õfiê˛ Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ Ó§yˆÏöy •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ– ˆÜ˛yö öï%˛ö Ü˛Ìy

ˆö•z– ÷ô% ôyÓ˚y xyÓ˚ ˛õ,¤˛y §Çáƒy ÓòˆÏ° ˆàˆÏåÈ– ¢∑ñ ÓyÜ˛ƒñ Ü˛üyñ ú%˛°fiê˛˛õ §Ó ~Ü˛– !¢«˛yÓ˚ í˛zß¨!ï˛ ˆÜ˛yö ˛õˆÏÌñ

ˆÜ˛yö û˛y£Ïƒ ˆö•z– ˆö•z àˆÏÓ£Ïîy Óy !¢«˛y í˛zß¨!ï˛Ó˚ Ü˛Ìy– !öåÈÜ˛ ˆçò ˆüê˛yˆÏï˛•z ~•z ≤ÃˆÏã˛‹Ty– ˆöï˛yç# ÄˆÏ˛õö

•zí˛z!öû˛y!§≈!ê˛ Îyñ ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚ÈÙÈÄ !Ü˛ ï˛y•z⁄

4– àï˛ ~Ü˛ ò¢Ü˛ ôˆÏÓ˚ §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ Ü˛ˆÏ°ç !¢«˛Ü˛ §!ü!ï˛ ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ Ü˛ˆÏ°ç §• §Ó §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ Ü˛ˆÏ°çˆÏÜ˛ !öˆÏÎ˚ §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚

˛õ!Ó˚ã˛y°öyÎ˚ ~Ü˛!ê˛ Ó˚yçƒ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚ àí˛¸yÓ˚ òy!Ó çy!öˆÏÎ˚ xy§ˆÏåÈ– ï˛y öy Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ ÷ô% ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ Ü˛ˆÏ°çˆÏÜ˛

xy°yòy !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚ Ü˛Ó˚yÓ˚ Î%!_´ Ü˛#⁄ xƒy!ú˛!°ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏê˛í˛ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚ àí˛¸ˆÏï˛ xy˛õ!_– xÌã˛ñ ≤Ãy•zˆÏû˛ê˛ åÈyeˆÏòÓ˚

~öˆÏÓ˚y°ˆÏürê˛ Ü˛Ó˚yÓ˚ Ü˛Ìy !ÓˆÏ° Ó°y •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ– Sã˛ƒy≤WzyÓ˚ 1–– ôyÓ˚y 2.16V– ~ˆÏï˛ Ó°y •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈñ fiê%˛ˆÏí˛rê˛ !üö§ ~

fiê%˛ˆÏí˛rê˛ xú˛ òƒy •zí˛z!öû˛y!§≈!ê˛ xƒy[˛ •zöÜœ$˛í˛§ ~!ö ˛õy§≈ö ~öˆÏÓ˚y”˛ Óy•z òƒ •zöí˛z!öû˛y!§≈!ê˛...Û

5– xq$ï˛ ~Ü˛ ≤Ãï˛yÓ˚îyÓ˚ !¢Ü˛yÓ˚ xyüÓ˚y– ü%ˆÏá Ó°y •ˆÏFåÈñ ~Ü˛Ü˛ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚ •ˆÏÓ ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™– ˆ§ Ü˛yÓ˚ˆÏî ˆÜ˛yö

Ü˛ˆÏ°çˆÏÜ˛ xƒy!ú˛!°ˆÏÎ˚¢ö ˆòÄÎ˚y ÎyˆÏÓ öy– xÌã˛ñ !ÓˆÏ° xƒy!ú˛!°ˆÏÎ˚¢ˆÏöÓ˚ Ü˛Ìy xyˆÏåÈ– !ÓˆÏ¢£Ïï˛ñ !ÓˆÏ°Ó˚ ˆ¢£Ï

˛õyï˛yÎ˚ !ú˛öy!™Î˚y° ˆüˆÏüyˆÏÓ˚u˛yü xÇˆÏ¢ Ó°y •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈñ ~ ˛õyê≈˛ xú˛ òƒy ˆÓ˚Ü˛y!Ó˚Ç ~:ˆÏ˛õ![˛ã˛yÓ˚ Ü˛ƒyö !Ó ˆüê˛ Óy•z

•zí˛z!öû˛y!§≈!ê˛ xyí˛zê˛ xú˛ •zê˛§ Äö !Ó˚ˆÏ§yˆÏ§≈§ òƒyê˛ ˆü !Ó ˆüy!Ó°y•zçí˛ Óy•z ÄˆÏÎ˚ xú˛ ˆÓ˚!çˆÏflT…¢ö !ú˛çñ

~:y!üˆÏö¢ö !ú˛çñ •z™ˆÏ˛õÜ˛¢ö !ú˛çñ xƒy!ú˛!°ˆÏÎ˚¢ö !ú˛çñ ~ê˛ˆÏ§ˆÏê˛Ó˚y–

~áö ≤ÃŸ¿ É xƒy!ú˛!°ˆÏÎ˚¢ö öy ÌyÜ˛ˆÏ° xƒy!ú˛!°ˆÏÎ˚¢ö !ú˛ ˛õyÄÎ˚y ÎyˆÏÓ ˆÜ˛yÌy ˆÌˆÏÜ˛⁄ xy§ˆÏ° xyàyü#ˆÏï˛

ˆÓ§Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ öyöy ≤Ã!ï˛¤˛yöˆÏÜ˛ xƒy!ú˛!°ˆÏÎ˚¢ö ˆòÄÎ˚y •ˆÏÓ– ˆ§Ü˛Ìy !ÓˆÏ° §%flõ‹T û˛y£ÏyÎ˚ ˆ°áy xyˆÏåÈ– !ÓˆÏ°Ó˚ 1öÇ

xôƒyˆÏÎ˚ñ ôyÓ˚y 2.20 ˆï˛ •zí˛z!öû˛y!§≈!ê˛ Ü˛ˆÏ°çÈÙÈ~Ó˚ §ÇK˛yÎ˚ ˛õ!Ó˚‹ÒyÓ˚ Ó°y •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈó •zí˛z!öû˛y!§≈!ê˛ Ü˛ˆÏ°ç !üö§

~ Ü˛ˆÏ°çñ xÓ˚ ~ö •zö!fiê˛!ê˛í˛zê˛ñ xÓ˚ ~ Ü˛ˆÏ°ç Ü˛¡∫y•zöí˛ í˛z•zÌ ~ö •zö!fiê˛!ê˛í˛zê˛ñ ˆüöˆÏê˛•zöí˛ xƒyöí˛ üƒyˆÏöçí˛

Óy•z òƒ •zí˛z!öû˛y!§≈!ê˛ñ ˆ•yˆÏÎ˚òyÓ˚ ~fiê˛y!Óœ¢í˛ Óy•z •zê˛ xÓ˚ öê˛– ~•z •zí˛z!öû˛y!§≈!ê˛ Ü˛ˆÏ°ç ˆÎ ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ öÎ˚ ˆ§ê˛y

ˆï˛y ˛õ!Ó˚‹ÒyÓ˚ 2.2 ôyÓ˚yÎ˚ ÈÙÙÙÈ ÚÜ˛ˆÏ°çÛ !üö§ Úxyfiê≈˛ˆÏ•yÎ˚y•z° ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ Ü˛ˆÏ°çÛñ Ü˛°Ü˛yï˛y–

xyÓ˚ !öˆÏçˆÏòÓ˚ myÓ˚y ≤Ã!ï˛!¤˛ï˛ öÎ˚ñ ~üö ˆ§^ˇê˛yÓ˚ñ fl%Ò°ñ •zí˛z!öû˛y!§≈!ê˛ Ü˛ˆÏ°ç ˆÌˆÏÜ˛•z ˆï˛y xƒy!ú˛!°ˆÏÎ˚¢ö !ú˛

ˆöÄÎ˚y– ~Ó˚y Ü˛yÓ˚y⁄ Ü˛yˆÏòÓ˚ ˆ§^ˇê˛yÓ˚ ~=!°⁄ •z!ï˛üˆÏôƒ•z xyüÓ˚y ˆòˆÏá!åÈñ ~Ü˛!ê˛ !¢«˛y ÓƒÓ§yÎ˚# §ÇfliyÓ˚ !ÓK˛y˛õˆÏö

ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™Ó˚ xôƒˆÏ«˛Ó˚ xÌ≈ÈÙÈÓ• í˛z˛õ!fli!ï˛– ï˛y•ˆÏ° ˛õÎ˚§y Ü˛yüyˆÏöy Óy !¢«˛yÓ˚ Óy!îçƒÜ˛#Ü˛Ó˚îÈÙÈ•z xy§° °«˛ƒ⁄

Îy §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ Ü˛ˆÏ°ç=!°ˆÏÜ˛ !öˆÏÎ˚ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚ àí˛¸ˆÏ° Óyôy≤ÃyÆ •ˆÏÓ⁄

Ü˛ˆÏ°çñ ˆ§^ˇê˛yÓ˚ñ •zö!fiê˛!ê˛í˛zê˛ˆÏÜ˛ fl∫#Ü,˛!ï˛ ˆòÄÎ˚yÓ˚ ˆày˛õö ≤ÃˆÏã˛‹Ty xyˆÏåÈ xÌã˛ öyü#ñ ˙!ï˛•ƒ˛õ)î≈ §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚

Ü˛ˆÏ°ç=!°ˆÏÜ˛ fl∫#Ü,˛!ï˛ ˆòÄÎ˚y ÎyˆÏÓ öy⁄ ~ ˆÜ˛üö xD#Ü˛yÓ˚⁄ §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ˆÏÜ˛ ˆÓ§Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ Ü˛Ó˚y•z ï˛y•ˆÏ° xy§°

í˛zˆÏj¢ƒ⁄ xöƒ !Ü˛å%È öÎ˚⁄ ‡à!° ü•!§ö Ü˛ˆÏ°ç 175 ÓåÈˆÏÓ˚ ˛õy !òˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ– 175 ÓåÈÓ˚ ˛õ)!ï≈˛ í˛zÍ§Ó ÷Ó˚& •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ

!Ó° ˛õyˆÏ¢Ó˚ !òöñ 19 üyã≈˛– §Ó˚Ü˛yÓ˚ ï˛yˆÏòÓ˚ !Ü˛ §¡øyö !òˆÏFåÈö⁄ Ü,˛£èöàÓ˚ àû˛ö≈ˆÏürê˛ Ü˛ˆÏ°ç ˆòˆÏ¢Ó˚ ≤ÃÌü §yôyÓ˚î

§Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ Ü˛ˆÏ°ç S1846 !á fiê˛y∑V– ˆüÔ°yöy xyçyò Ü˛ˆÏ°çñ ˆÜ˛yã˛!Ó•yÓ˚ ~ !Ó ~ö ¢#° Ü˛ˆÏ°çñ ˆÓ ˆÏÓyö≈ Ü˛ˆÏ°çñ

ˆÓÌ%ö Ü˛ˆÏ°ç ÈÙÙÙÈ ÎˆÏÌ‹T ˙!ï˛•ƒÓy•# Ä í˛zFã˛üyˆÏöÓ˚ ≤Ã!ï˛¤˛yö– •zí˛z !ç !§ §¡±!ï˛ ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ åÈyí˛¸yÄ ~•z

CORRESPONDENCE 37

≤Ã!ï˛¤˛yö=!°ˆÏÜ˛ í˛zÍÜ˛£Ï≈ ˆÜ˛w !•ˆÏ§ˆÏÓ fl∫#Ü,˛!ï˛ !òˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ– ~ˆÏòÓ˚ xƒy!ú˛!°ˆÏÎ˚¢ö !òˆÏ° !Ü˛ «˛!ï˛ •ˆÏï˛y⁄ Óyî#˛õ%Ó˚

¢yÓ˚#Ó˚ !¢«˛î ü•y!Óòƒy°Î˚ñ §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ ã˛yÓ˚& Ä Ü˛yÓ˚&Ü˛°y ü•y!Óòƒy°Î˚ñ §Çfl,Òï˛ Ü˛ˆÏ°çñ ˆàyˆÏÎ˚B˛y Ü˛ˆÏ°çñ ˆí˛!û˛í˛

ˆ•Î˚yÓ˚ ˆê˛Δ!öÇ Ü˛ˆÏ°ç ÈÙÙÙÈ fl∫#Ü,˛!ï˛ ˛õyÄÎ˚yÓ˚ ˆÎyàƒ öÎ˚⁄

6– §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ Ü˛ˆÏ°ç=!°Ó˚ ˙!ï˛•ƒÓy•# @ˇÃsiyàyÓ˚ñ §%§ü,k˛ àˆÏÓ£ÏîyàyÓ˚ñ ˛õ!Ó˚Ü˛yë˛yˆÏüyñ Ü˛°yÈÙÈ!ÓK˛yöÈÙÈã˛yÓ˚&Ü˛°yÈÙÈxy•zöÈÙÈ

Óy!îçƒÈÙÈ!¢«˛Ü˛È !¢«˛î §• !Ó!Óô !Óòƒy xôƒyÎ˚ö Ä ˛õë˛ˆÏöÓ˚ ≤Ãû)˛ï˛ x!û˛K˛ï˛yñ !¢«˛Ü˛ Ä !¢«˛yÜ˛ü≈#ˆÏòÓ˚ Óò!° Ä

˛õˆÏòyß¨!ï˛Ó˚ x!û˛K˛ï˛yˆÏÜ˛ Ü˛yˆÏç °y!àˆÏÎ˚ Ó˚yçƒ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚ àí˛¸y •ˆÏ° ï˛y ˆÎ ˆÜ˛yö í˛zß¨ï˛ !ÓˆÏò!¢ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°ˆÏÎ˚Ó˚

§ˆÏD ≤Ã!ï˛ˆÏÎy!àï˛y Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏï˛ §¡õ)î≈ §«˛ü •ˆÏï˛y– Ó‡ ò%‹±y˛õƒ Ó•z xyˆÏåÈ xöƒyöƒ §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ Ü˛ˆÏ°ˆÏç– !í˛!çê˛y°y•zçí˛

Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ ÄˆÏÎ˚Ó§y•zˆÏê˛Ó˚ §y•yˆÏÎƒ ï˛yÓ˚ §ÇÎ%!_´ §yôö !¢«˛y !ÓŸªˆÏÜ˛ ˛õÌ ˆòáyˆÏï˛ ˛õyÓ˚ˆÏï˛y– á%ˆÏ° !òˆÏï˛ ˛õyÓ˚ˆÏï˛y !¢«˛yÓ˚

öï%˛ö !òàhsˇ–

7– xôƒy˛õÜ˛ˆÏòÓ˚ òy!Óñ ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ Ü˛ˆÏ°ç §• §Ó §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ Ü˛ˆÏ°çˆÏÜ˛ !öˆÏÎ˚ Ó˚yçƒ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚– xyüyˆÏòÓ˚ ≤Ãò!¢≈ï˛

˛õˆÏÌ•z fl∫yfliƒ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚ñ Ü˛y!Ó˚à!Ó˚ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚ •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ ~•z Ó˚yˆÏçƒ–

8– ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™Ó˚ ˆ«˛ˆÏe Ó˚yçƒ §Ó˚Ü˛yˆÏÓ˚Ó˚ !¢«˛yö#!ï˛Ó˚ §¡õ)î≈ !ÓˆÏÓ˚yô# Ü˛yç Ü˛Ó˚y •ˆÏFåÈ– ü%ˆÏá Ä !°!áï˛û˛yˆÏÓ !ÓˆÏò!¢

!ÓŸª!Óòƒy°ˆÏÎ˚Ó˚ ¢yáy ˆáy°yÓ˚ Ä !¢«˛yˆÏ«˛ˆÏe ì˛y°yÄ ˛õ%Ñ!çÓ˚ xö%≤ÃˆÏÓˆÏ¢Ó˚ !ÓˆÏÓ˚y!ôï˛y Ü˛Ó˚y •ˆÏFåÈ– xÌã˛ Ü˛yˆÏç

í˛zˆÏŒê˛y ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚ !Ó° 2009ÈÙÈ~ !ÓˆÏò!¢ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°ˆÏÎ˚Ó˚ §ˆÏD §y!ê≈˛!ú˛ˆÏÜ˛ê˛ñ !í˛ˆÏ≤’yüyñ !í˛!@ˇÃ ˆòÄÎ˚yÓ˚

•z!Dï˛ ˆòÄÎ˚y •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ– Sã˛ƒy≤WzyÓ˚ 2–– ôyÓ˚y 4.26V

9– !¢«˛yÓ˚ ˆÓ§Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏîÓ˚ !ÓˆÏÓ˚y!ôï˛y Ü˛Ó˚y •ˆÏFåÈñ xÌã˛ ˆÓ§Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ ≤Ã!ï˛¤˛yö ˆÌˆÏÜ˛ }î ˆöÄÎ˚y ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™

Ü˛ˆÏ°ˆÏçÓ˚ ç!ü !Ó!e´Ó˚ ≤ÃhflÏyÓ ˆÓ§Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏîÓ˚ •z!Dï˛Óy•#– Sã˛ƒy≤WzyÓ˚ 2–– ôyÓ˚y 4.20V– Ó°y •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈó To

acquire, hold and dispose of property, movable and immovable.

10– xyüÓ˚y ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™Ó˚ í˛zß¨!ï˛Ó˚ ˆÜ˛yöÄ Ó˚Ü˛ü !ÓˆÏÓ˚yô# ö•z– ÓÓ˚Ç í˛zˆÏŒê˛y– xyüÓ˚y ã˛y•zñ ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ Ü˛ˆÏ°ç §• §Ó

§Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ Ü˛ˆÏ°ˆÏçÓ˚ xyô%!öÜ˛ï˛ü Ä ˜ÓK˛y!öÜ˛ !ÓÜ˛y¢– §Ó≈yD#î í˛zß¨!ï˛– ~Ó˚ çöƒ §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ ÓƒÎ˚ÓÓ˚yj Óyí˛¸yˆÏöyñ

xyü°yï˛y!sfÜ˛ ç!ê˛°ï˛y •…y§ñ x!ï˛!Ì xôƒy˛õÜ˛ xyöyñ ~Ü˛y!ôÜ˛ í˛zß¨ï˛ üyˆÏöÓ˚ åÈye Ä åÈye# !öÓy§ñ xyˆÏÓ˚y åÈyeåÈye#

Ó,!_ñ àˆÏÓ£Ïîy Ó,!_ñ x!ï˛!Ì xyÓy§ñ !¢«˛Ü˛ xyÓy§ñ !öçfl∫ Óy§ §y!û≈˛§ñ !í˛!çê˛y°y•zçí˛ @ˇÃsiyàyÓ˚ñ xyhsˇç≈y!ï˛Ü˛

üyˆÏöÓ˚ àˆÏÓ£ÏîyàyÓ˚– ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ Ü˛ˆÏ°ˆÏç Ó‡ xyhsˇç≈y!ï˛Ü˛ üyˆÏöÓ˚ àˆÏÓ£Ïîy •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ •ˆÏFåÈ– ˛õ!Ó˚Ü˛yë˛yˆÏüy xyÓ˚Ä

í˛zß¨ï˛ •ˆÏ° !¢«˛yçàÍñ ˆò¢ Ä §üyç í˛z˛õÜ,˛ï˛ •ˆÏÓ–

11– !ÓˆÏ¢£ÏK˛ Ü˛!ü!ê˛ Ä !Óôyö§û˛yÓ˚ Ü˛!ü!ê˛Ä ˛õ!Ó˚Ü˛yë˛yˆÏüy Ó,!k˛Ó˚ §%˛õy!Ó˚¢ Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ˆÏåÈ– ï˛y öy Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚•z ï˛!í˛¸â!í˛¸ !Ó° ˛õy§

Ü˛Ó˚yˆÏöyÓ˚ ˆã˛‹Ty ˆÜ˛ö⁄

12– ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ Ü˛ˆÏ°ˆÏç 68!ê˛ !¢«˛Ü˛ ˛õò ¢)öƒ– ˆüyê˛ ˛õò 224– xyˆÏåÈö 156 çö– ¢)öƒ @ˇÃsiày!Ó˚Ü˛ Ä !¢«˛yÜ˛ü≈#˛õò–

ˆ§ Ü˛yç öy Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ñ ˆòˆÏ¢Ó˚ xöƒï˛ü ˆ§Ó˚y §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ ≤Ã!ï˛¤˛yˆÏöÓ˚ ˆÓ§Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚Ü˛Ó˚î†x§Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚Ü˛Ó˚î Ü˛Ó˚y û˛Î˚ÇÜ˛Ó˚

!Ó˛õˆÏòÓ˚ •z!Dï˛Óy•#–

13– ~•z !Ó° ã˛Ó˚ü àîï˛sf !ÓˆÏÓ˚yô#– !ÓˆÏ°Ó˚ 3öÇ ã˛ƒy≤WzyˆÏÓ˚ 22 öÇ ˛õyï˛yÎ˚ 32 öÇ ôyÓ˚yÎ˚ üyÓ˚ydÜ˛ àîï˛sf !ÓˆÏÓ˚yô#

Ü˛Ìy xyˆÏåÈ– Ó°y •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈñ ˆÜ˛yö Ü˛ü≈ã˛yÓ˚# Óy xôƒy˛õÜ˛ ˆÜ˛yö !ÓÓyˆÏòÓ˚ ˆ«˛ˆÏe Sxyòy°ˆÏï˛Ó˚ Óy•zˆÏÓ˚V ïÑ˛yˆÏÜ˛ !ï˛ö

§òˆÏ§ƒÓ˚ ê˛Δy•zÓ%ƒöyˆÏ°Ó˚ !§k˛yhsˇ üyöˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ– ê˛Δy•zÓ%ƒöyˆÏ°Ó˚ !§k˛yhsˇ ã)˛í˛¸yhsˇ–

14– §Ó˚Ü˛yÓ˚ ˆã˛‹Ty Ü˛Ó˚&Ü˛ñ ÎyˆÏï˛ à!Ó˚Ó ˆüôyÓ# åÈyeåÈye#Ó˚y Ó!M˛Èï˛ öy •Î˚– ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ Ü˛ˆÏ°ˆÏç Ó‡ à!Ó˚Ó ˆüôyÓ#

åÈyeåÈye# §%ˆÏÎyà ˆ˛õˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ– §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ åÈyeyÓy§ Ä åÈye# xyÓyˆÏ§ Ü˛ü áÓ˚ˆÏã˛ ˆÌˆÏÜ˛ñ Ü˛ü ˆÓï˛ˆÏö ˛õˆÏí˛¸ñ àˆÏÓ£Ïîy Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚

ˆòˆÏ¢Ó˚ Ä ≤Ã!ï˛¤˛yˆÏöÓ˚ ü%á í˛zIμ° Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ˆÏåÈ– ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ ï˛Ü˛üy •yÓ˚yˆÏ° à!Ó˚Ó ˆüôyÓ# åÈyeåÈye#ˆÏòÓ˚ fl∫yÌ≈

!Ó˛õß¨ •ˆÏï˛ Óyôƒ– §Óy•z çyˆÏööñ §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ Ü˛ˆÏ°ˆÏç ˛õí˛¸yÓ˚ áÓ˚ã˛ xöƒyöƒ ≤Ã!ï˛¤˛yˆÏöÓ˚ ˆÌˆÏÜ˛ Ó‡ =î Ü˛ü–


Ó‡ §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ åÈyeÓ,!_ xyˆÏåÈñ ˆÎ §%ˆÏÎyà •yÓ˚yˆÏÓ åÈyeåÈye#Ó˚y– Ó!M˛Èï˛ •ˆÏÓ §Çáƒy°â%ñ ï˛˛õ!¢!° çy!ï˛ í˛z˛õçy!ï˛

åÈyeåÈye#Ó˚y–

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§Ó˚y§!Ó˚ û˛!ï≈˛ ˛õyˆÏÓ˚– û˛!Ó£ÏƒˆÏï˛ üye 5 ¢ï˛yÇ¢ û˛!ï≈˛Ó˚ §%ˆÏÎyà ˛õyˆÏÓ Óy û˛!ï≈˛ ˛õÓ˚#«˛y !òˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ– !Ó ~í˛ Óy !Ó

ˆê˛Ü˛ ï˛yÓ˚y ˛õí˛¸ˆÏÓ ˆÜ˛yÌyÎ˚⁄

16– ˆÜ˛w#Î˚ §Ó˚Ü˛yˆÏÓ˚Ó˚ ï˛Ìƒ çyöyˆÏFåÈñ ~Ü˛Ü˛ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚ Óy !í˛üí˛ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚ àí˛¸yÓ˚ x!û˛K˛ï˛y •ï˛y¢yÓƒOÜ˛– ~•z

ôÓ˚ˆÏîÓ˚ 44!ê˛ !¢«˛y ≤Ã!ï˛¤˛yˆÏöÓ˚ fl∫#Ü,˛!ï˛ Óy!ï˛° Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏï˛ ã˛ˆÏ°ˆÏåÈ ˆÜ˛w#Î˚ §Ó˚Ü˛yÓ˚– §yÓ˚y ˆòˆÏ¢Ó˚ 22 •yçyÓ˚ Ü˛ˆÏ°ç

xyˆÏåÈñ ï˛yÓ˚ üˆÏôƒ üye 236!ê˛ fl∫¢y!§ï˛ Óy !í˛üí˛ Óy ~Ü˛Ü˛ •ˆÏï˛ ã˛ˆÏ°ˆÏåÈ–

Ó‡ åÈyeåÈye#Ó˚ §ˆÏD §%fli ≤Ã!ï˛ˆÏÎy!àï˛yÓ˚ §%ˆÏÎyà •yÓ˚yˆÏ° ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ Ü˛ˆÏ°ˆÏçÓ˚ åÈyeåÈye#ˆÏòÓ˚ ˆüôyÓ˚ ≤ÃÜ,˛ï˛ ü)°ƒyÎ˚ö

•ˆÏÓ öy– ÎÑyÓ˚y ˛õí˛¸yˆÏÓö ïÑ˛yÓ˚y•z ≤ÃŸ¿ Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏÓöñ ïÑ˛yÓ˚y•z áyï˛y ˆòáˆÏÓö ÈÙÙÙÈ ~ˆÏï˛ !ÓŸªy§ˆÏÎyàƒï˛yÓ˚ xû˛yÓ âê˛ˆÏÓ– ö¡∫Ó˚

ˆÓ!¢ í˛zë˛ˆÏÓñ !Ü˛v ö¡∫Ó˚ê˛y•z !Ü˛ §Ó⁄ ö¡∫ˆÏÓ˚Ó˚ !ÓŸªy§ˆÏÎyàƒï˛y ÌyÜ˛ˆÏÓ ˆï˛y⁄

17– ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ Ü˛ˆÏ°ˆÏç Óï≈˛üyö !öÎ˚ˆÏü !˛õ ~§ !§ üyÓ˚ú˛Í !¢«˛Ü˛ Ä !¢«˛yÜ˛ü≈# !öˆÏÎ˚yà •Î˚– Óƒ!_´àï˛ ˛õåÈòÈÙÈx˛õåÈ®

ˆ§áyˆÏö ≤ÃˆÏÎyçƒ öÎ˚– ≤ÃˆÏÎyçƒ öÎ˚ xöƒï˛sf– Ó‡ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°ˆÏÎ˚ !¢«˛Ü˛ !öˆÏÎ˚yà !öˆÏÎ˚ x!öÎ˚üÈÙÈˆÓ!öÎ˚ü x!û˛ˆÏÎyà

ÄˆÏë˛– !˛õ. ~§ !§ÈÙÈÓ˚ !öˆÏÎ˚yà ~áˆÏöy ≤ÃŸ¿yï˛#ï˛–

18– åÈyeåÈye# û˛!ï≈˛Ó˚ ˆ«˛ˆÏe ˆÎyàƒï˛yñ fl∫FåÈï˛yñ §ï˛ï˛y ˆüˆÏö ˆüôyÓ˚ !û˛!_ˆÏï˛ û˛!ï≈˛ •Î˚– ˆÜ˛yö ≤ÃŸ¿ ÄˆÏë˛ öy– xyàyü#ˆÏï˛

ï˛y ÌyÜ˛ˆÏÓ !Ü˛⁄

19– !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚ àí˛¸yÓ˚ §ˆÏD §ˆÏD Ü,˛£èöàÓ˚ñ ˆüÔ°öy xyçyòñ ‡à!° ü•!§öñ ˆÜ˛yã˛!Ó•yÓ˚ ~ !Ó ~ö ¢#°ñ é˛yí˛¸@ˇÃyüñ

ã˛®öàÓ˚ñ òy!ç≈!°ÇÈÙÈ~Ä ~Ü˛Ü˛ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚ àí˛¸yÓ˚ òy!Ó ˆÜ˛yö ˆÜ˛yö ü•° ˆÌˆÏÜ˛ ˆï˛y°y •ˆÏFåÈ– !Ü˛ Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏÓö Ó˚yçƒ

§Ó˚Ü˛yÓ˚⁄ §ü@ˇÃï˛y öy !Ó!FåÈß¨ï˛y ÈÙÙÙÈ ˆÜ˛yöê˛y xyüyˆÏòÓ˚ Ü˛yüƒ⁄

20– ˆàyˆÏÎ˚B˛y Ü˛ˆÏ°çñ ˆüÔ°yöy xyçyò Ü˛ˆÏ°ˆÏçÓ˚ åÈyeÓ˚y ÌyˆÏÜ˛ !•®% ˆ•yˆÏfiê˛ˆÏ°– !•®% ˆ•yˆÏfiê˛° §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ ï˛Ü˛üy •yÓ˚yˆÏ°

~Ó˚y ÌyÜ˛ˆÏÓ ˆÜ˛yÌyÎ˚⁄

21– ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ Ü˛ˆÏ°ˆÏçÓ˚ åÈyeÓ˚y §Çfl,Òï˛ ˛õˆÏí˛¸ §Çfl,Òï˛ Ü˛ˆÏ°ˆÏç– ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ Ü˛ˆÏ°ç §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ ï˛Ü˛üy •yÓ˚yˆÏ° ~Ó˚y

˛õí˛¸ˆÏÓ ˆÜ˛yÌyÎ˚⁄

22– §Óy•z çyˆÏööñ flÿï˛Ü˛ hflÏˆÏÓ˚Ó˚ ~Ü˛!ê˛ §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ Ü˛ˆÏ°ç !•ˆÏ§ˆÏÓ•z ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ Ü˛ˆÏ°ç ˆàÔÓ˚ˆÏÓÓ˚ !¢áˆÏÓ˚ í˛zˆÏë˛ˆÏåÈ–

xyòyÎ˚ Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ˆÏåÈ !¢«˛y !ÓˆÏŸªÓ˚ §ü#•– xôƒy˛õÜ˛ §%ˆÏ¢yû˛ö §Ó˚Ü˛yÓ˚ñ ï˛yÓ˚Ü˛ ˆ§öñ çöyò≈ö ã˛e´Óï≈˛#ñ û˛ÓˆÏï˛y£Ï ò_Ó˚y

flÿï˛Ü˛ hflÏˆÏÓ˚•z ˛õ!í˛¸ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈö §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ Óò!°Ó˚ !öÎ˚ü ˆüˆÏö•z–

xyüÓ˚y ã˛y•z ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ Ü˛ˆÏ°ç §• §Ó §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ Ü˛ˆÏ°çˆÏÜ˛ !öˆÏÎ˚ Ó˚yçƒ !ÓŸª!Óòƒy°Î˚– ~ˆÏï˛ !¢«˛yÓ˚ í˛zß¨!ï˛ñ

§üyˆÏçÓ˚ í˛zß¨!ï˛ñ í˛zß¨!ï˛ ˆòˆÏ¢Ó˚ Ä òˆÏ¢Ó˚ñ à!Ó˚Ó ˆüôyÓ# åÈyeˆÏòÓ˚–

xyüÓ˚y ˆ≤Ã!§ˆÏí˛!™ §• §Ó §Ó˚Ü˛y!Ó˚ Ü˛ˆÏ°ˆÏçÓ˚ í˛zß¨!ï˛ ã˛y•z!åÈñ í˛zß¨!ï˛Ó˚ öyˆÏü Óí˛¸ˆÏ°y!Ü˛˛õöy Óy ~!°!ê˛çü Óy

xÓöüö öÎ˚–

xyüyˆÏòÓ˚ Ü˛Ìy É ôùÇˆÏ§Ó˚ üyôƒˆÏü §,!‹T öÎ˚ñ §,!‹T ˆ•yÜ˛ §,!‹TÓ˚ í˛zÕ‘yˆÏ§–

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ToThe Hon’ble Governor of West BengalRaj Bhaban, Kolkata. Dated : 07-04-2010

Respected Sir,

We are indeed grateful and feel honoured for your kind and patient hearing on 25th March 2010, on thePresidency University Bill, 2009. On the basis of thorough discussion on the Bill, we have the following submissionsto make :

A. Observations on THE STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT :

1. The statement “General degree colleges offering Post-Graduate courses also enjoy autonomy to formulatetheir own syllabus and evaluation system for such courses” (page 1) is not true for Burdwan University,Vidyasagar University, Kalyani University, University of North Bengal and even for M.Ed. courses inCalcutta University.

2. In the Report (pages 1-2), there is a factual error in the subjects in which PG courses are said to beoffered. No PG courses are offered at present in History, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology andMathematics. There is no department of Sanskrit at Presidency, let alone a PG course. Incidentally, thesyllabi of different PG courses are not available in the public domain.

3. There is no mention of 18 undergraduate courses taught in Presidency. Does it purport to show thatPresidency is exclusively a post-graduate college? We are astounded at such omissions because theCollege reached its erstwhile glory primarily through UG teaching.

4. Both the Boys’ and Girls’ hostels as mentioned in the Report ( page 2, para 1 )are presently shared bystudents of other government colleges. They are not exclusively meant for Presidency College. Noalternative hostels have been designated for such students.

5. There is a reference to “genuine collegial discussion” advocated by the seven-member Expert Committee,by which “the college would make its own recommendations” (page 2, para 4). A meeting of the CollegeTeachers’ Council which is empowered to decide on all academic matters was convened on 16th

September, 2009, to discuss this issue. The prolonged discussion was inconclusive and the meeting wasadjourned without any resolutions being taken. This adjourned meeting has not been reconvened tillnow. How the Bill could assert “genuine collegial discussion” bypassing the Teachers’ Council is beyondour comprehension.

6. The Presidency College governing body meeting on 3rd November, 2009 as mentioned (page 2, para 5),had a single teacher member. We feel that any decision taken at this meeting cannot truly reflect theteachers’ views. It is unilateral in character. The jurisdiction of governing bodies in government collegeson such matters is open to question and without precedence. Moreover, the Governing Body resolutionin question is not backed up by any serious academic audit/study by experts on the issue.

7. There is no mention of academic facility-sharing with Presidency College enjoyed by students of SanskritCollege, so far as non-Sanskrit subjects are concerned.’

This spectre of selective amnesia pains us, and we feel, it ill behoves Presidency College to deign itself thus.

B. Observations on THE BILL :

8. In the ‘STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS’ (Bill, page 56), endorsed by the Standing Committee(Standing Committee Report, page 3, Observations and Recommendations, item 1), the statement thatthe seven-member Expert Committee “recommended that by genuine collegial discussion .. .. .. ofautonomy” (para 3) is at variance with truth. It was the Expert Committee’s conclusion ( ExpertCommittee Report, page 7 ) and not recommendation.

9. That no ‘genuine collegial discussion’ had taken place is already stated above (items 5 & 6 ). Moreover, the changes proposed should have been first placed in the public domain and the contentsof the proposed changes as well as its rationale thoroughly debated by members of the civil andknowledgeable society and its stake holders. We say this because Presidency College, Kolkata, is anational icon and a living testimony to India’s cultural history.


Since teachers in government colleges belong to the service cadre, all teachers in West Bengal EducationalService (WBES) and West Bengal Senior Educational Service (WBSES) are stake holders, many of whomare posted to Presidency College on transfer. This assertion is acknowledged in an oblique manner(Chap.VII, Clause 55, 8(c) of the Bill), where all government college teachers, librarians and others“liable to be posted” to this college, are allowed to exercise their options. Unfortunately, no discussionsever took place on the rationale or contents of the Bill, with members of the service cadre as stakeholders, at any point of time, giving short shrift to all democratic norms and practice.Further, the Seven-member Expert Committee (consisting of all Presidencians), appointed by the samegovernment, unanimously decided in favour of maintaining its present status as an affiliated collegeunder Calcutta University.“After long deliberations, the Committee came to the conclusion, that retaining the age-old tie betweenthe College and Calcutta University would be beneficial for both the institutions and for that matter,the entire State. After all, the College flourished and attained its glory within the umbrella of theUniversity. .. .. .. At the national and international levels, a student of Presidency College coming out atthe top of the examinations conducted by Calcutta University, finds ready recognition. This may nolonger remain true if the degree is awarded by Presidency College either in the capacity of its autonomousstatus or as a ‘Deemed University’ .. .. .. A solution for Presidency College divorced from the Universityof which it has always been elite – in the best, and not the pejorative sense of the word – would not bebeneficial for either. .. .. .. At the Undergraduate level, let the students, like their predecessors, face stiffcompetition from the students of other quality institutions affiliated to Calcutta University. This willhelp all of them. .. .. .. the Committee unanimously decides in favour of maintaining its present statusas an affiliating college of Calcutta University.. .. ..” ( Report of the seven-member Expert Committee,pages 2-3 ).Incidentally, our government college teachers have been voicing the same concern as the ExpertCommittee members, on this issue.

10. The provision for treating decisions taken by a tribunal as final and unassailable in the Court of Law[Bill: Chap III, Clause 32(4)] in case of disputes between a teacher, an officer or an employee and theUniversity, is undemocratic and perhaps legally untenable.

11. The waiver of upper age limit for recruitment to University, for those posted in Presidency College or inother government colleges of the service cadre [Chap. VII, Clause 55 (c)] is apparently humanitarian,but in practice it is in violation of public interest and ergo discriminatory, liable to be questioned in acourt of law.

12. The “phased manner” in which the present incumbents at Presidency College / those in the sameservice cadre will be allowed to exercise option “for being considered for selection in University services”to be decided by the state government [ Bill: Chap. VII, Clause 55(c)] is not clear. The modus operandiby which the government will decide on the extent and timing of “phased manner” is not spelt out.

13. It is very difficult to reconcile with the pronouncement that “all sanctioned posts in the college shallstand transferred to the University” [Bill: Chap. VII, Clause 55, 8(b)] — a staggering amount of 224teaching posts including 50 posts in WBSES. This will seriously impair mobility of teachers betweengovernment colleges and severely restrict promotions. The WBES boasts of degree colleges all projectedas ‘model colleges’ in the state and which include six colleges acknowledged by the UGC as ‘Centreswith Potential for Excellence’. The service cadre also includes posts in four government technologicalcolleges, two government engineering colleges, government B.Ed. and Physical Education Colleges andthe Govt. College of Art — all premier institutes under government patronage. We fear that the compositecharacter of this one-and-a-half-century old educational service will lose all its attraction, encouragemass exodus from this cadre and these colleges that served as role models, catering to the basicdisciplines, will stagnate. How can we be silent spectators of such impending demise of our service?

C. Our Convention :

On 3rd April, 2010, we arranged a convention where eminent educationists like Paramesh Acharya (a memberof several education commissions in the country, including Dr. Asok Mitra Commission), Sourin Bhattacharya(economist and ex-Professor of Jadavpur University), Prof. Mrinmoy Bhattacharya (ex-General Secretary of AIFUCTOand FISE), the General Secretary of AIFUCTO, the General Secretary of All Bengal State Government College

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Teachers’ Association, and several retired Government college teachers, addressed a gathering of governmentcollege teachers and other members of the academia on the issue of Presidency University Bill, 2009 and insupport of our long-standing demand for a separate state university comprising all government colleges in thestate. We wanted to nail, what we feel, the insidious lie that improvement of teaching and learning in PresidencyCollege cannot be achieved without making it a unitary university. The speakers were surprised to know that nodiscussion on this issue ever took place with stakeholders in the service cadre. They apprehended imminentdeterioration of UG teaching quality. Other threats like huge enhancement of tuition fees, privatization, loss oftransparency and credibility of its degree, are sure to follow. They simply could not bear to see Presidency Collegebeing sacrificed at the altar of political expediency. The secretary of AIFUCTO reminded us of their unstintedsupport towards our struggle against unitary university, like the support they extended to teachers in Tamil Naduagainst the move for unitary university for Presidency College, Chennai, and others.

At the convention, the following resolutions were adopted unanimously.We strongly oppose ‘The Presidency University Bill, 2009’ and insist that Presidency College be maintained

as a government college and demand that all government colleges in the state be clustered together under aseparate, classified, affiliating state university.

We vehemently oppose any move to grant Autonomous/Deemed University/Unitary university status to anygovernment college.

We appeal that the AIFUCTO leadership take up our cause and move the appropriate authorities to fulfill ourdemands.

Our struggle will continue till our demands are realized.

Thanking you,

Sincerely Yours,


ToThe Hon’ble Minister-in-Charge 4th June 2010Department of Higher EducationGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt Lake CityKolkata - 700091

Sir,May we please draw your attention to the following points outlining the main issues,

some of which are long standing and need to be addressed immediately.

I. Academic

1. Filling-up of the vacant posts ofi. Librarians in Government Colleges. (In this context we remind the Government that many of the

Govemment colleges are being run almost without Library services and 33 posts out of 68 arelying vacant.)

ii. Assistant Professors in Commerce and also Assistant Professors for Training colleges, PhysicalEducation colleges and Government Art college.

iii. Principals in Government Colleges (including Training and Physical Education colleges).iv. Professors in WBSES.v. Teachers in Government Engineering Colleges. In this context we remind that accreditation by

NBA is at stake due to dearth of teachers in these colleges.2. Requisition of new names in Botany from the existing panel of PSC,WB for recruitment of teachers.3. Extension of Academic autonomy to the PG courses under the Universities of the state other than

University of Calcutta, and also for the M. Ed course under the University of Calcutta.


4. Initiative should be taken for NAAC Evaluation for those Government colleges that have not yet doneso.

5. Heads of the Departments of Government colleges should take charge on rotational basis, as practicedin the Universities.

II. Service conditions

1. Issuance of Government orders to extend WBES status to librarians of Government Colleges.2. Issuance of Government Orders to implement the AICTE scale of pay for the teachers librarians of Govt.

Engineering and Technological Colleges with effect from 01-01-2006.3. (a) The Special Allowance of the Principals (WBSES), as recommended in the MHRD Notification, has

not been included in the GO No. 864 Edn (A) dated 28.08.2009. We demand that all Principals begranted an allowance of Rs. 3000/- per month.

(b) We demand that the joining pay of Principal (WBSES), be fixed at a minimum ofRs. 43,390/- w.e.f. 01.01.2006 in the pay band of Rs 37,400/- - 67,000/- with AGP ofRs. 10,000/-.

4. We demand effective and balanced implementation of promotion from WBES to WBSES.5. An appropriate Government order for teachers / librarians I physical instructors be issued, for

participation in the Ph.D. course work (as it has become essential as per the guidelines in this regard ofthe UGC).

6. We remind you that the payment of 20% of arrear pay in the revised UGC pay-scale, 2006, in instalments,is without any precedence in Govemment Colleges. We demand necessary modification of the G.O.No.1157 Edn(A) and 1158 Edn(A) dated 23-03-2009, and that the remaining amount due, be released in asingle instalment.

7. We demand that the GO. NO. 196 Edn(A) dated 22-03-2010 be immediately revised taking cognizanceof the MHRD Order No. 15-1/2009-IFD/U.Il dated 15-12-2009 and 11-03-2010. (Copies enclosed: Revisionof Pension of Pre-2006).

III. Non-teaching Staff :

1. Filling-up of existing vacant non-teaching posts (group C & group D and Technical / Laboratory assistant)in all Government Colleges, on an emergency basis.

2. Creation of appropriate number of non-teaching posts. (In this context, we remind you that no suchexercise has been undertaken for a long time and that the general academic environment has undergonea sea-change in this period.) in all Government Colleges.

IV Others :

1. There should be uniform and balanced distribution of development grants (State Plan / Non-Plan) todifferent Government Colleges.

2. A copy of the Government Order related to Govemment Colleges may kindly be sent to the DTE, WestBengal.

An early action with regard to the above is requested.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely

(Debasish Sarkar)General Secretary, WBGCTA

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ToThe Hon’ble Minister-in-Charge 4th June 2010Department of Higher EducationGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt Lake City, Kolkata - 700091

Subject : Raising the age of Superannuation of Teachers to 65 years

Sir,This is to remind you that we had already written to you on the subject mentioned above in our letters dated

06.05.2009 and 14.09.2009. Till now the Government has maintained a total silence on this issue.You are aware about the terms of reference in the MHRD notification (No. 1-32/2006 dated 31.12.2008),

where the age of superannuation has decidedly been fixed at 65 years. It has been more than a year since wewrote to you first about the matter. Meanwhile, many teachers have already retired and others continue to retireprematurely at the age of 60 years.

In this context, we strongly demand immediate issuance of the relevant Government Orders to raise thesuperannuation age of teachers to 65 years.

Thanking you and looking forward to your needful action at the earliest.

Yours sincerely,


ToThe Hon’ble Minister-in-Charge 4th June 2010Department of Higher EducationGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt Lake City, Kolkata - 700091

Subject : Release of 80% Arrear of Pay to Teachers

Sir,

We would like to draw your kind attention regarding payment of arrear amount to the teachers in connectionwith the Pay Scale Revision with effect from 01.01.2006 under the Sixth Pay Commission.

As per the MHRD notification No.1-32/2006 dated 31.12.2008, 80% of the arrear payable to teachers by therespective State Governments would be financed by the Centre. In a recent communication from MHRD (No. F.1-7/2010 Al, dated 11.05.2010), sent to the Education Secretaries of all the States, the release of 80% of financialassistance by the centre has been reiterated. It is our understanding that the payment of arrears is a kind ofdeferred payment for service already rendered and immediate step in releasing the same is called for. Teachers,who have already retired and those who continue to retire, feel immensely deprived. This issue has generatedconsiderable resentment among the teachers.

In this context, we strongly demand that the Government of West Bengal must come out forthwith with theappropriate order and break the impasse created on the question of payment of 80% of arrears due to itsbeneficiaries, the teachers.

Thanking you and looking forward to your kind cooperation.

Yours sincerely,



ToThe Hon’ble Minister-in-Charge 14th June 2010Department of Higher EducationGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt Lake CityKolkata 700091

Sir,You are aware that our Association is strongly opposed to the formation of Unitary / Deemed Universities,consistent with the stand taken by AIFUCTO on this issue. That apart, the Presidency University Bill, 2009has dealt a body blow portending to leave the WBES / WBSES in shambles.

As part of our continuous agitational programme on this issue, we also held a convention on 3rd April, 2010where eminent educationist and teacher leaders of different teachers’ organizations came out forthright insupport of our cause.

We would like to put on record the resolutions unanimously adopted at this convention as stated below:1. We strongly oppose ‘The Presidency University Bill, 2009 and insist that Presidency College be maintained

as a Government Colleges and demand that all Government Colleges in the State be clustered togetherunder a separate Classified Affiliating State University.

2. We vehemently oppose any move to grant Autonomous / Deemed University / Unitary University statusto any government college.

3. We appeal that the AIFUCTO leadership take up our cause and move the appropriate authorities tofulfill our demands.

We emphasize that our struggle will continue till our demands are realized.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely

(Debasish Sarkar)General Secretary.

WBGCTA

ToThe Hon’ble Minister in Charge 1st July 2010Department of Higher EducationGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt Lake CityKolkata - 700091

Subject : Recruitment of Librarians in Government CollegesSir,

We draw your kind attention to the appalling state of the libraries in different government colleges. We hadalready raised this issue in our letters addressed to you dated 13.03.2009, 4.06.2009 and 4.6.2010. The problemis getting worse each day and needs immediate redressal. In fact, the last recruitment of Librarians in governmentcolleges had taken place about 10 years ago. Meanwhile. librarians continue to retire and today 37 posts out of atotal of 68 posts of librarians in government colleges have fallen vacant.

The matter has come to a head in four colleges where there is no librarian at present. These colleges are:Govt. College of Art and Craft, David Hare Training College, State Institute of Physical Education for Women—Hastings House and Govemment College of Physical Education for Women — Hooghly.

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At the Govt. College of Physical Education for Women, Dinhata, even the post of Librarian has not beencreated till date. We strongly urge that initiative be taken for the creation of the post of Librarian at this college.

Over the years, post-graduate courses and other new subjects have been introduced in different governmentcolleges without simultaneous expansion of infrastructure at these libraries. The severe constraints under whichthe librarians work has to be seen to be believed. It is little surprise, therefore, that library services have beenseverely impaired. You will surely agree that such state of affairs is unacceptable and should not be allowed tocontinue even for a single day.

Therefore we demand that the Government take immediate steps to fill up all vacant posts of Librarians, inthe interest of the teachers and the taught, in all the govemment colleges.

I am sure you will appreciate our plight and take immediate steps to redress our areas of concern.

Thanking youYours sincerely

(Debasish Sarkar)General Secretary, WBGCT A.

ToThe Hon’ble Minister in Charge 1st July 2010Department of Higher EducationGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt Lake CityKolkata - 700091

Subject : Inordinate delay in implementation of AICTE pay scalesfor teachers in Government Engineering and Technological colleges.

Sir,

You will surely understand the agony and despair that afflicts teachers of Government Engineering andTechnological colleges, on the subject mentioned above.

We now hear that a file on this issue has indeed been prepared [No. Edn (T)I 10/M/36/09] which has reportedlybeen dispatched from the Higher Education Department on 20.05.10 to the Finance Department at Writers’Buildings. Till now, the necessary order remains to be issued.

We had expressed our thanks and again register our appreciation for having extended ad-hoc interim reliefto teachers governed by AICTE pay scales relatively quickly, which was possible largely to your initiative.

We are sure that in this occasion too, you will enable expeditious issuance of the order and put an end to theglaring discrimination of teachers under the AICTE, particularly when their peers who are under the UGC payscales and even the non-teaching staff at such colleges, already enjoy the revised scales. We solicit your kind helpand cooperation for immediate issuance of the relevant Government Order.

Thanking you,Yours sincerely



ToProfessor Asim Kumar Dasgupta 12th July, 2010Minister in Charge of FinanceGovernment of West BengalWriters’ BuildingKolkata – 700 001

Subject: Inordinate delay in implementation of AICTE payscales for teachers in Government Engineering and Technological colleges.

Respected Sir,You will surely understand the agony and despair that afflicts teachers of Government Engineering and

Technological colleges, on the subject mentioned above. We learnt that a file on this issue had indeed been prepared [ Edn (T) / 10M / 36 / 09] and dispatched from

the Higher Education Department on 20.05.10 to the Finance Department at Writers’ Buildings. The file wasplaced for the perusal of Sri S. K. Chakrabarty, Special Secretary (Finance) on 1st June 2010. However with dismayand pain, we find that, necessary approval has not yet been given.

We appeal to your good office to expedite the process and put an end to the glaring discrimination ofteachers under the AICTE, particularly when their peers who are under the UGC pay scales and even the non-teaching staff at such colleges, already enjoy the revised scales.

We solicit your intervention for immediate approval of the AICTE pay scales for teachers in Engineering andTechnological colleges.

Thanking you,

Yours truly,

(Debasish Sarkar)General SecretaryWest Bengal Government College Teachers’ Association

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Sri Buddhadeb Bhattacharya 12th July, 2010Hon’ble Chief MinisterGovernment of West BengalWriters’ BuildingKolkata – 700 001

Respected Sir,We, the members of the West Bengal Government College Teachers’ Association (WBGCTA), wish to express

our agony and deepest concern at the State Government’s move to sound the death-knell of Presidency College,an icon of Bengal Renaissance. The College had attained its erstwhile glory, catering primarily to undergraduateeducation under Calcutta University, first under Indian Education Service, then under Bengal Education Serviceand followed by the present West Bengal Education Service. The Presidency University Bill was aimed at changingthe status of Presidency College into a unitary university despite the fact that the experience with autonomouscolleges/deemed or unitary universities in this country is far from encouraging, for a variety of reasons. Werefuse to accept the specious arguments being touted to justify detachment of this College from a time-testedaffiliating system to a unitary university mode. The All India Federation of University and College TeachersOrganisation (AIFUCTO) is also totally opposed to such moves. We subscribe to this view and believe that unitarystatus would reduce the competitive edge as well as diminish transparency and accountability. The stake is toohigh, when the institution in question is Presidency College.

We were appalled to note that despite our repeated pleas, we were never consulted during and after thepreparation of this bill. It can be said without any shade of doubt that an unprecedented damage would be doneto the concept of a cadre based academic service if the bill is executed. We insist on continuing the status ofPresidency College as a Government College and demand that all Government Colleges in the state be clusteredtogether under a separate, classified, affiliating State University. Such models are in vogue in this state. All theEngineering and Management colleges are clustered under the common umbrella of the West Bengal Universityof Technology (WBUT) and all the government medical colleges are affiliated to the West Bengal University ofHealth Sciences (WBUHS).

Enactment of the Bill would inevitably lead to several undesirable outcomes in our service cadre as well.Any move of the Government which sharply reduces the scope of mobility and promotion among the members ofthe West Bengal Education Service (WBES) and the West Bengal Senior Education Service (WBSES) is undesirableand regressive. We hope that, you would understand the extent of potential damage and consider our followingdemands:

The Government should initiate moves to set up new Government Colleges in Kolkata and other districts ofWest Bengal.

A total of 224 new posts including 54 posts in WBSES (existing in the Presidency College) should be createdimmediately, exclusively for the new Government Colleges in Kolkata to compensate the loss of these posts fromthe cadre, as a result of the enactment of the Presidency University Bill 2009.

We sincerely believe that you would share our concern and initiate necessary moves to protect the reputationand positions of pride of the government colleges in West Bengal. We are also ready to discuss with you theissues raised in this letter, should you so desire.

Thanking you,

Yours truly,



ToShri Debasish Sarkar,General Secretary,West Bengal Government College Teachers’ Association,1, Bankim Chatterjee Street,Kolkata-700 073

Sir,

I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated 12.07.2010 addressed to the Chief Minister.

I am also directed to inform you that the Chief Minister has seen your letter and he has forwarded the sameto Higher Education Department.

Yours sincerely,

(Jaydeep Mukherjee)

No. 511-CACM

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To 15th July 2010The Minister in ChargeDepartment of Higher EducationGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700091

Subject : Submission of a Charter of Demand on 20th July, 2010 at 3.00 pmSir,

You are aware that the latest developments regarding the change of status of Presidency College and thecrisis generated as a consequence, has created considerable resentment among the members of our Association.We are left with no other alternative than to bring to your notice all our demands relating to this issue afresh. Weassert that our Association would continue to oppose any move of the Government which it considers elitist andgoes against the interest of education, service and the society at large.

We are also surprised to note that many of the pending service related matters, which should have beenaddressed long back, have not yet been resolved. We would like to put forth all our service related demands foryour perusal and early redressal. Accordingly, we have resolved to submit a charter of demands to your goodoffice on 20th July, 2010 around 3.00 pm, from a gathering of the members of our Association in front of BikashBhawan.

We believe that you would share our agony and act on these demands at the earliest.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,


To 20th July 2010The Minister in ChargeDepartment of Higher EducationGovernment of West Bengal,Bikash Bhavan, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700091

Subject: Submission of Charter of DemandsSir,

In continuation with our communication dated 15.07.2010 we are submitting herewith a Charter of Demandsof our Association. We look forward to your initiative in addressing these issues at the earliest.

Thanking you,

Yours truly(Debasish Sarkar)General SecretaryWest Bengal Government College Teachers’ Association

1. Charter of DemandsAcademic Matters :

i) Scrap the Presidency University Bill, 2009.ii) Initiate the process of establishing a classified affiliating State university comprising all government

colleges of West Bengal.iii) In view of the crisis that will ensue with the enactment of the proposed Presidency University Act we


demand immediate establishment of new government colleges within Kolkata Municipal area, with atleast 224 new posts (including 54 posts in WBSES) that exists in Presidency College.

iv) Take necessary steps to fill up all vacant posts of Principals/ Teachers/ Librarians / Physical Instructorsand non-teaching staff in all government colleges including technological, training and art colleges.

2. Service Matters :

i) Fix the age of superannuation at sixty five years, for all Principals / Teachers / Librarians / PhysicalInstructors in government colleges.

ii) Release immediately the full component of arrear pay for UGC 2006 pay-awardees, in a single instalment.iii) Implement immediately AICTE pay-scale for teachers and equivalent cadres, in government engineering

and technological colleges.iv) Take necessary measures for speedy disposal of all pending cases of Career Advancement Scheme.v) Grant immediately with effect from 1.1.2006, the recommended special allowance of Rs.3000 per month,

for Principals in WBSES.vi) Ensure with-pay study-leave for Teachers / Librarians / Physical Instructors for higher studies / research

/ Ph.D work / M.Phil work.vii) Immediately issue government orders to extend WBES status to Librarians of government colleges.viii) Issue necessary orders and fixation formulae for pre-2006 and post-2006 retired Principals/ Teachers/

Librarians/ Physical Instructors in government colleges in the light of UGC pay-award 2006, and releasethe full component of arrears immediately.

3) General :

i) Take all necessary steps to stop violence and unrest in educational institutions in the state and protectthe dignity of students and staff.

ii) Refrain from taking any step that promotes privatization and invites foreign capital in the field ofeducation.

To 3rd August 2010The Hon’ble Minister-in-ChargeDepartment of Higher EducationGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700 091

Subject: Request for issuance of the comprehensive fitment tablerelating to the G.O. 434 Edn (T), dt. 26-07-10

Sir, Subsequent to our letter dated 27 June, 2010 to you on the need for immediate implementation of AICTE

pay scales for Teachers, Librarians and Principals of Government Engineering and Technological colleges of thestate, the said order has indeed been issued. We take the opportunity to thank you, for the initiative from yourend, for issuance of this order.

However, without a fitment table, fixation in Pay Band Rs. 37400 – Rs. 67000 would not be possible. In viewof the above we would request you to take steps as appropriate for early issuance of a corrigendum to the order,No. 434-Edn (T), dt .26.07.10 incorporating the comprehensive fitment table for teachers of the EngineeringColleges. This will make the process of fixation at every stage more accurate and unambiguous.

Thanking you,

Yours truly,


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(1)

To 3rd August 2010The Hon’ble Minister-in-ChargeDepartment of Higher EducationGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt LakeKolkata 700 091

(2)

To 3rd August 2010Prof. Subimal SenVice ChairmanWest Bengal State Council of Higher EducationKolkata.

Subject: Observation on the UGC Regulations- 2010 vide F.3 – 1/2009 dated 30.06.2010

Sir,After deliberating at length on the UGC regulation “Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers

and other Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and measures for maintenance of standards in HigherEducation, 2010”, published on 30 June, 2010, with memo no. F. 3 – 1 / 2009 and taking into account theobservations of AIFUCTO, we put forward the following for consideration:

1. Clause 1.3 of the Notification No. F.3-1/2009 dated 30th June, 2010 on UGC Regulations 2010 states that,they ( the regulations) would come into force with immediate effect. However, the Gazette notification isyet to be made. The Thyagrajan Committee functioning under the aegis of UGC had earlier ensured that theCAS cases as well as other matters guided by the ‘Regulations” would continue to be judged on the basis ofprevailing norms ( i.e.Regulations 2000) till a Gazette Notification is made.Our submission: Clause 1.3 of the said notification should read as “ They shall come into force on and fromthe date of Gazette notification”

2. Similarly, clause 6.3.1 also needs to be modified and all cases of CAS falling due till the date of gazettenotification of this UGC Regulation 2010 be disposed of in accordance with the UGC Regulations, 2000.

The MHRD be urged upon to take up the cases of teachers who were Readers / Assistant Professors (SG)on 31.12. 2008 and have duly completed 3 years in this category as on the date of gazette notification,should be redesignated as Associate Professor and placed in Pay Band IV, without insisting on PBAS andinterviews.

3. Section 4.4.7 (i), subhead (b), states that, according to the NCTE the qualification prescribed for facultyposition as Principals in B.Ed Colleges / Heads in B. Ed. courses is stipulated to be ‘Ph.D. in Education.’ Thiscould cause unnecessary hindrance for many incumbents who satisfy all other criteria.Our Submission: The NCTE may be urged to allow Ph.D. degree in other disciplines as well for consideration.

4. In Sections 5.1.4, 5.1.5 and 5.1.6, the prescribed guidelines for selection of teachers and Principals in collegesrequires the presence of a nominee of the Vice-Chancellor and subject experts of the “concerned University.”Considering the fact that teachers and academic staff in government colleges in West Bengal are appointedin the service cadre through the Public Service Commission, not for any specific college and its affiliatinguniversity, and because such staff is liable to be transferred to any government college of the state. OurSubmission: The terms “concerned University” ought to be replaced by the terms “any university of thestate”, at the time of framing regulations for government colleges.

5. In Section 5.1.6, subhead (d), a college Principal is supposed to be appointed for a term of 5 years and it isstated that reappointment for another term would involve a fresh selection process. Since Principals ingovernment colleges are appointed by the PSC in the WBSES service cadre, the requirement for a freshround of selection after completion of a term is unjustified.Our Submission: This unwarranted condition be removed.


6. Section 6.3.3 specifies the norms for selection committee ( clauses 5.1.0 and 5.1.7 ) to be set up for CAS inconnection with promotion from Assistant Professor ( Stage III) to Associate Professor (Stage IV) whichwould entail appearance before the WBPSC ( The selection board for Government College Teachers).Our Submission: the MHRD as well as the State Government be urged not to insist upon a selectioncommittee for CAS in Stage 3 and Stage 4. Instead, it should continue with the prevalent norms at thecorresponding stages, comprising of a screening committee.

7. Section 6.3.5.2, subhead (a), specifies that a Principal or an acting Principal be present as a member of theSelection committee for college teachers (pg. 41), which is again difficult to implement, for appointment ofGovernment College teachers.Our Submission: The relevant portion be altered to read as”. “a Principal from a Government College”.Similar modifications need be made in subhead ( b ) of the same clause, which should read as ‘Head of theconcerned department from a government college’; subhead (c ) should read as “two subject experts in theconcerned subject, nominated by the Vice-Chancellor or the acting Vice-Chancellor of a University, from apanel of experts of the universities.”

8. Section 6.5.1 stipulates that ten per cent of the number of posts of Associate-Professor in UG colleges beearmarked for Professors. Since government colleges in this state already have quite a number of posts ofProfessors, the stipulated ten per cent should be over and above the existing number of Professor’s posts ingovernment colleges.Our Submission: Hence, Section 6.5.1, subhead (i), may accordingly be modified to read “ Notwithstandingthe number of existing posts of Professor in government colleges, ten per cent of the .. .. ...”

9. We welcome the changes incorporated in the eligibility conditions regarding Ph.D. in the “concerned/allied/relevant disciplines.” However, Section 9.1 of the Regulation specifies incentives for Ph.D. at the entry levelonly in a “relevant subject”.Our Submission: The stipulation for Ph.D. need be extended to “concerned/allied subjects”.

10. Table III : Appendix III of the guidelines (p. 101) specifies the requirement of one Orientation Programmeand one Refresher / Research methodology course of two or three weeks duration, for CAS from Stage 1 toStage 2. This second requirement of one course in addition to OP in the corresponding stage, is a newaddition in the Regulations.It is pointed out that many teachers already eligible for CAS according to pre-existing norms and keenlyawaiting its implementation, would face serious hardship and inordinate delay for the newly imposed secondrequirement of course work.Our Submission: For Career Advancements falling due till gazette notification of this Regulation, thedate of effect for CAS award from Stage 1 to Stage 2 be retained as per pre-existing norms, with the provisothat the additional second requirement be fulfilled within a stipulated time of one more year.

11. Clause 9.0 (pg. 71) of the Regulation seeks to award the new entrants having Ph.D. with 5 non-compoundedadvance increments, if he/she joins on or after 01-09-2008. It bears recall that corresponding benefits forincumbents joining between 01-01-2006 and 31-08-2008 was 4 advance increments, in the old scale of Rs.8000 – Rs. 13500/-. his would create an anomalous situation with juniors joining at a date later than 31-08-2008, would be drawing higher pay compared to their senior colleagues with equivalent qualifications.Our Submission: The benefit of 5 non-compounded advance increments be also extended to all incumbentswith the requisite qualifications, joining on or after 01-01-2006.

12 From Appendix III, Table I (pg. 92), it is seen that 50 marks have been assigned for Lectures / Seminars etc.,while the note appended below states that the university might prescribe a cut-off of 80%, below which nomarks are to be awarded.Our Submission: This all-or-none mechanism appears to be extremely harsh for incumbents whose scoremay fall short slightly, despite their best efforts. We suggest giving proportional weightage, instead of nomarks at all below 80%, along with proportional marking for all performances recorded numerically in thesecategories.

13. The qualification, promotional benefits and superannuation age of Librarians / Asst. Librarians / CollegeLibrarians/DPE should be on a par with teachers, as per the Regulation.Our Submission: Clause 3.5 (pg. 65) should be extended to Librarians in colleges where post-graduatecourses are run, subject to satisfying the required credit points as per API, based on PBAS methodology asprovided in Appendix VII for University Librarians.

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14. Also note that, Sections 14.0 and 15.0 fail to state categorically the work load of Librarians and DPEs.We hope that your good office will take all possible care to address the issue raised and resolve the same

with the spirit of the letter.

Thanking you,Yours truly,


Sri Buddhadeb Bhattacharya 17th August 2010Hon’ble Chief MinisterGovernment of West BengalWriters’ BuildingKolkata – 700 001

Respected Sir,We, the members of the West Bengal Government College Teachers’ Association (WBGCTA), want to draw

your kind attention to the grave crisis that has arisen in the field of higher education of our state. You are wellaware that we had earlier expressed our agony and deep concern at the State Government’s move to transformPresidency College into a unitary university. The All India Federation of University and College Teachers Organisation(AIFUCTO) is also opposed to such a move.

We insist on continuing the status of Presidency College as a Government College and demand that allGovernment Colleges in the state be clustered together under a separate classified affiliating State University.Such models are in vogue in this state itself. All the Engineering and Management colleges are clustered underthe common umbrella of the West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT) and all the medical colleges areaffiliated to the West Bengal University of Health Sciences (WBUHS).

In this context we would like to inform you that 20th August is the foundation day of our association (WBGCTA)and we are going to observe it as Demand Day. On the same day we would like to submit to your kind self adocument detailing the concept of formation of the Federative State University as well as a Charter of Demandscomprising of long pending issues related to our service. As a part of our Demand Day programme, teachers fromgovernment colleges all over West Bengal would congregate near the statue of Vidyasagar at college squarebetween 1- 4 PM.

We expect your intervention to resolve the crisis at the earliest.Yours truly,

(Debasish Sarkar)General SecretaryWest Bengal Government College Teachers’ Association (M: 9007433883)

Sri Sudarshan Roychoudhury 17th August 2010Minister in ChargeDepartment of Higher EducationGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt Lake, Kolkata – 700 091

Respected Sir,

We, the members of the West Bengal Government College Teachers’ Association (WBGCTA), insist oncontinuing the status of Presidency College as a Government College and demand that all Government Colleges


in the state be clustered together under a separate classified affiliating State University. You are well awarethat we had earlier expressed our agony and deep concern at the State Government’s move to transform PresidencyCollege into a unitary university. The All India Federation of University and College Teachers Organisation (AIFUCTO)is also opposed to such a move.

In this context we would like to inform you that 20th August is the foundation day of our association (WBGCTA)and we are going to observe it as Demand Day. On the same day we would like to submit a document to the stategovernment detailing the concept of formation of the Federative State University as well as a Charter of Demandscomprising of long pending issues related to our service. As a part of our Demand Day programme, teachers fromgovernment colleges all over West Bengal would congregate near the statue of Vidyasagar at college squarebetween 1- 4 PM.

We expect your intervention to resolve the crisis at the earliest.

Yours truly,


Sri Buddhadeb Bhattacharya 20th August 2010Hon’ble Chief MinisterGovernment of West BengalWriters’ BuildingKolkata – 700 001

Respected Sir,We, the members of the West Bengal Government College Teachers’ Association (WBGCTA), had the

opportunity of submitting our demands in view of enactment of the Presidency University Bill 2009, in our letterdated 12.07.2010. We sincerely believe that as head of the administration you understand that the said enactmenthas caused irreparable damage to a 200 year old service cadre i.e. West Bengal Education Service. We expressedour agony and deepest concern and hoped to have a meaningful interaction with your good office.

In view of the enactment of the Presidency University Bill, 2009 several undesirable outcomes have occurredin our service cadre. This move of the Government sharply reduces the scope of mobility and promotion amongthe members of the West Bengal Education Service (WBES) and the West Bengal Senior Education Service (WBSES).We reiterate our earlier demands that necessitate immediate redressal to minimize the extent of potential damage.These are:

The Government should initiate moves to set up new Government Colleges in Kolkata and other districtsof West Bengal.

A total of 224 new posts including 54 posts in WBSES (existing in the Presidency College) should be createdimmediately, exclusively for the new Government Colleges in Kolkata to compensate the loss of these postsfrom the cadre, as a result of the enactment of the Presidency University Bill 2009.

You are probably aware of the fact that the enactment of the Presidency University Bill has already inducedsimilar demands for change of status of other Government colleges such as Krishnagar Government Colleges,Maulana Azad College and Hooghly Mohsin College. For long we have been asking for a Classified AffiliatingState University comprising of all the Government Colleges of the State. After the transformation of the PresidencyCollege this demand has become all the more relevant.

To check further budding out of premier Government institutions and also to elevate public-funded educationto its next higher level of excellence, that would incorporate inclusive education to be accessed by disadvantagedsections of the society, we are presenting herewith an approach paper (Annexure-I) that would address themodalities of creation of such a body of teaching-learning. This is nothing unique in our State. Similar AffiliatingUniversities are already functioning effectively embracing all the Engineering, Technological / Management Colleges(WBUT) and all the Medical Colleges (WBUHS) respectively.

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Furthermore, we have several long-pending demands relating to our service conditions. We had alreadyapproached the Minister in Charge, Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal, in a letterdated 20.07.2010. We are appending herewith a copy of our Charter of Demands for your perusal (Annexure- II).


Thanking you,

Yours truly,


Sri Sudarshan Roychoudhury 20th August 2010Hon’ble Minister in ChargeDepartment of Higher EducationGovernment of West BengalSalt Lake, Bikash Bhavan, Kolkata – 700 091

Respected Sir,In view of the enactment of the Presidency University Bill, 2009 several undesirable outcomes have occurred

in our service cadre. This move of the Government sharply reduces the scope of mobility and promotion amongthe members of the West Bengal Education Service (WBES) and the West Bengal Senior Education Service (WBSES).We reiterate our earlier demands that necessitate immediate redressal to minimize the extent of potential damage.These are:

The Government should initiate moves to set up new Government Colleges in Kolkata and other districtsof West Bengal.

A total of 224 new posts including 54 posts in WBSES (existing in the Presidency College) should be createdimmediately, exclusively for the new Government Colleges in Kolkata to compensate the loss of these postsfrom the cadre, as a result of the enactment of the Presidency University Bill 2009.

You are probably aware of the fact that the enactment of the Presidency University Bill has already inducedsimilar demands for change of status of other Government colleges such as Krishnagar Government Colleges,Maulana Azad College and Hooghly Mohsin College. For long we have been asking for a Classified AffiliatingState University comprising of all the Government Colleges of the State. After the transformation of the PresidencyCollege this demand has become all the more relevant.

To check further budding out of premier Government institutions and also to elevate public-funded educationto its next higher level of excellence, that would incorporate inclusive education to be accessed by disadvantagedsections of the society, we are presenting herewith an approach paper (Annexure-I) that would address themodalities of creation of such a body of teaching-learning. This is nothing unique in our State. Similar AffiliatingUniversities are already functioning effectively embracing all the Engineering, Technological / Management Colleges(WBUT) and all the Medical Colleges (WBUHS) respectively.

Furthermore, you have already been approached with our several long-pending demands relating to ourservice conditions in a letter dated 20.07.2010. We are again appending herewith a copy of our Charter of Demandsfor your perusal (Annexure- II).


Thanking you,

Yours truly,(Debasish Sarkar)General Secretary, West Bengal Government College Teachers’ Association


Annexure-I

University of BengalA Draft Outline

Prologue

The government colleges of West Bengal have a glorious past. Many students and teachers who taught atthese colleges are pioneers in their own fields and are architects of modern Bengal and the nation. The teachersof these colleges belong to the same service cadre which is almost two centuries old. Initially it was called theIndian Education Service, later renamed the Bengal Educational Service and today as the West Bengal EducationalService.

All the great universities in the world simultaneously conduct programmes in science, humanities, liberalarts, languages, technology, law and many other emerging disciplines, both at undergraduate and post graduatelevels and also at the level of research. The government colleges in West Bengal have a rich heritage of teaching-learning, research and training in various disciplines.

Higher education is increasingly perceived as a means to overcome caste and class hierarchy and patriarchy.The Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in Higher Education is projected to be increased to an extent of 15% from theexisting 11% within the current plan period ( i.e, XII Plan 2007-2012). This would creatie of more demand forUnder-Graduate and Post-Graduate studies in General as well as Specialized disciplines. The concept of InclusiveEducation and Access to Education as envisaged by the Government of India is posing increased pressure ontime-tested centres of higher education to expand their reach beyond the confines chalked out for them, whenthey were formed. With time, the age old demarcating line between the colleges and the universities is fadingout. The Government Colleges in West Bengal have a time tested legacy of excellence in higher education andare truly ready to take-off to face the challenge of reaching out to larger section of the society, to the disadvantagedsection in particular. The peer bodies, in the field like Prof. Bhabatosh Dutta Commission and Dr. Ashoke MitraCommission, have recognized the government colleges as model institutions, many of which are more than hundredyears old. At this point of time, when foreign service providers are eyeing the pie from education, the poorer andmeritorious students are facing grim marginalization in a society where corporate world dictates terms. We assumethis to be our duty to expand our horizon beyond the hypothetical ‘Lakshmanrekha’ and to face the threat ofcorporatization in a manner that has been asked of us over the century.

The teachers in Government Colleges have long felt the need for uniting all Government Colleges under aseparate classified affiliating State University. Till the 1980s, the geographical distance between the collegesappeared to be a hindrance. With the advent of internet and information technology, this has long ceased to beof any consequence. The members of the West Bengal Government College Teachers’ Association (WBGCTA) allof whom belong to the same service cadre and are one of the primary stake-holders of the government colleges,along with other members of the academia, has been persistent with their demand for a separate classifiedaffiliating state university, for more than a decade. It was pointed out that such transformation would requirevery little added expenditure, as the existing government colleges with their rich human and material resourceswould suffice to constitute the building blocks of the proposed University.

Meanwhile, there had been stray attempts to promote creation of autonomous colleges/deemed universities/unitary universities in different parts of the country. Most of them failed to make any significant impact in teaching-learning, while recognition of a sizeable section of such deemed universities were proposed to be withdrawn bythe Union Ministry. This was perhaps inevitable, as the different checks and balances, competition, credibility,transparency and accountability embedded in the affiliating system, stands compromised in unitary/deemedmodels of universities/ institutions. The failure of the vast majority of such institutions to sustain themselves inthe long run, makes the case for the affiliating system all the more compelling. Such a classified affiliating modelof state university with separate campuses exists in different countries, such as the University of London in UK,State University of New York in US, Moscow State University in Russia, to name a few. We need look no furtherthan our own state which boasts of the University of Health Sciences and the West Bengal University of Technologythat affiliates medical colleges and engineering/management colleges respectively, situated at different cornersof our state. From a functional point of view, even the Primary and Secondary boards of school education and the

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Council of Higher Secondary Education in our state has been effectively managing, conducting and monitoringthe curriculum at these levels for many years, in schools scattered throughout the state. Geographical distancehas never been a hindrance in spite of several lakhs of students at each of these stages. One hopes, this willdispel any lingering doubt over the feasibility of a state university embracing all the 35 government colleges.

Mission of the University

The mission of the University shall be to contribute to society through pursuit of education, scholarship andresearch at the highest level of excellence and strive to create a vibrant community of thinking individuals whostand out as valued members of the society.

Objectives of the University

The objectives of the University shall be to create, disseminate and apply knowledge and the insights thusgained, to all segments of society, in consonance with the renaissance spirit of our forbears, who taught andstudied in government colleges. With this end in view, it would be necessary —

1. To create a classified affiliating state university consisting of all government colleges in the state. 2. To cluster together, share and rejuvenate the rich and varied resources of the government colleges

through effective collaboration and networking, ensuring uniformity in standards in all the faculties; 3. To uphold the primacy of teaching in educating vast numbers of young adults along with creation of

skill in state-of-the-art research and other vocations; 4. To evolve and foster intellectual synergy that encourages out-of-the-box thinking, analytical skills and

innovation, a relentless quest for newer and newer pedagogic methods, collaborative interdisciplinaryresearch and exposure to hands-on training in cutting-edge platform technologies;

5. To develop centres of excellence in higher studies and research in basic and applied sciences, humanities,commerce, engineering and technology, education, physical education, art and craft, law andmanagement education.

6. To ensure equity and access to inclusive public-funded higher education while promoting freedom,egalitarianism, fraternity and social justice as enshrined in the Constitution of India;

7. To provide for efficient and responsive administration and scientific management while augmentingcollaboration between academia-industry-government institutes or laboratories, or with other centresof excellence.

A Brief Review of Government Colleges in West Bengal

Before spelling out our demand on a State University of Government College, a brief review of the governmentcolleges in the state would be in order. The government colleges include general degree colleges, engineeringand technological colleges, B.Ed. colleges, Physical Training colleges and a college of Art and Craft.

A. General Degree Colleges:

1. Acharya Brojendra Nath Seal College, Coochbehar.

Acharya Brojendra Nath Seal College has a brilliant history to boast of. It was formerly known as VictoriaCollege. As a seat of learning, it has a glorious past. As Coochbehar has a legacy of heritage since an eon, thiscollege is sure to have a memory-trove to cash in on, no doubt. Way back in 1888, Maharaja Nripendra Narayan,who was an enthusiast in expanding learning in this region, built this college in the bustling central hub of thetown of Coochbehar.

The first Principal of this College was J.D.Godley and the first Indian who graced the chair of the Principalwas erudite Acharya Brojendra Nath Seal. For eighteen long years (1896-1913) he was at the helm of the affairsof this College. He was an ardent lover of books himself. Authoritative sources aver that with this scholarly Principal,administrative matters came to town along with his academic pursuits. Under the aegis of Acharya BrojendraNath Seal, the College had provisions for teaching post-graduate courses in English Language and Literature andPhilosophy. Even Law formed an appendage to it.

After the merging of the Princely State of Koch Bihar with India in 1950, the Government of West Bengaltook up the onus of running this institution. Thus this College earned the status of a Government College. Againin 1970, commemorating the saintly Principal’s contribution, this institution was renamed as Acharya Brojendra


Nath Seal College. Since its nascence, it won a pride of place in the map of learning under the University ofCalcutta. Of late, it is an eminent seat of learning under the University of North Bengal. One can easily take pridein the fact that the flambeau of learning is still aflame. Hundreds and thousands of students from various nooksand corners of North Bengal, file in every year seeking admission into this College. This century-old College is thealma mater of hundreds of well-placed academicians, here and abroad. Eminent Professors were delighted toteach here. Needless to say, that this educational institution is still playing a significant role in expanding,disseminating higher education to the dark crannies of North Bengal. Presently the college takes pride in introducingpost-graduate studies in Bengali, Sanskrit, History and Zoology.

2. Barasat College, Barasat, 24-Parganas (North).

Situated in the heart of Barasat Town on a land of more than two acres under the jurisdiction of North 24Parganas district, the College started its journey in the year 1950. Actually, its birth owes to a historical disaster –the partition of Bengal and the consequent deluge of displaced people into the neighboring district of erstwhileundivided 24 Parganas. A substantial section of the uprooted belonged to a class which depended on formaleducation for its very subsistence and the government of the state selected the town of Barasat as the location ofa new college. Three isolated two-storied building in the grounds of Barasat Government School, which used toprovide hostel facilities to both Hindu and Muslim boys, were requisitioned tor the purpose. Initially, the collegewas affiliated to the University of Calcutta, but now it is affiliated to West Bengal State University, Barasat.

In 1956, citizens of the locality had formed the “Govt. College Upgradation Committee for Degree College”to work for the upgradation of the institution to Degree College. It succeeded in establishing an Arts section from1956-57. The college has three separate buildings called the Main building, Chemistry building and the Sciencebuilding today.

Presently the college offers Honours in 13 subjects: Bengali, English, Sanskrit, History, Political Science,Philosophy within the Arts faculty and in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Zoology, Botany, Economics andGeography within the Science faculty. The College also offers Postgraduate courses in Botany, Zoology, Physicsand Bengali at present.

3. Bethune College, Kolkata.

A premier college of central Kolkata, it was the first women’s college of India. Established way back in 1879and named after its founder, the famous educationist John Drinkwater Bethune, the institution is associated withmen like Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar and Pandit Madan Mohan Tarkalankar, among other intellectual giantsof that era. This college is the alma mater of the first women graduates of the country – Kadambini Bose andChandramukhi Basu. Among others, Illustrious teachers like Shashi Bhusan Dutt, noted poetess Kamini Ray, thephilosopher Gopinath Bhattacharya, the historian Sushobhan Chandra Sarkar, served this college at differenttimes. Today, UG courses are taught in 16 departments and PG courses in four departments, viz., Botany, Zoology,Mathematics and English.

4. Bidhannagar College, Salt Lake, Kolkata.

One of the newer government colleges, it is already 26 years old. Expected to serve as a model of academicexcellence since inception, its sprawling campus and sparkling alumni have already etched out a niche forthemselves. Each year the pass outs easily succeed to get themselves admitted to institutions like Delhi School ofEconomics and Delhi University. Those who opt to remain in the city come out with flying colours at the post-graduate level. Many succeed to go abroad each year. At present, UG courses are offered in 15 subjects, only atthe Honours level, and PG courses at present, in Zoology and Microbiology. In Zoology, M.Sc. is also offered hereunder the auspices of Netaji Subhas Open University (distance learning). The College boasts of a Rain-WaterHarvesting Tank ( an unique feature of water-conservation in a college) and a large medicinal-plant garden andgreen-house (Parasar Udyan), maintained by the Botany Department. Incidentally, this college could be one ofthe places where the administrative building of the proposed University could come up.

5. Chandernagar College.

Chandernagore college is located on the artistically designed strand that extends along the west bank of theriver Bhagirathi at Chandernagore. An amalgamation of cultures, French and Indian, the College today representthe best of both worlds. While offering Courses in three different streams- Science, Commerce and Humanities,

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the college tries to present a view of education that is holistic and equipped to meet the demands of intelligentand inquisitive young minds. The origins of Chandernagore College can be traced back to a French Primary School,the “Ecole de Sainte Marie”, established in 1862. On December 15, 1887, the French Government took overcontrol of the institute for the Jesuit Missionaries, renaming it “Ecole Publique des Garcons”. In 1891 the FAcourse of the University of Calcutta was introduced and in 1901 its name was changed once again to “CollegeDupleix”. The partition of Bengal in 1905 had its impact upon Chandernagore and the city was soon in the throesof the Swadeshi movement. The subdirector (Vice-Principal) of the college, Sir Charu Chandra Roy and severalstudents were involved in revolutionary activities. Sir Roy was arrested and the College was closed down in 1908.However, the charges against Sir Roy could not be substantiated and he was released. He then organized amovement for the restoration of higher education in Chandernagore, which resulted in the re-establishment ofthe “College Dupleix” on July 4, 1931. On July 17,1931 the West Bengal Government granted the college permissionto teach I.A and I.Sc. under the University of Calcutta. On June 2,1938 by an order of the Governor of FrenchIndia, the College received permanent status and was placed under the Education Department and English Honoursin 1947 followed by Mathematics Honours in 1948 and Commerce Courses in 1949. Meanwhile, in November1947, the institution was renamed “Chandernagore College” by the Free City Government. Since then the Collegehas been expanding in all directions. After the merger of the Free City with the Indian Union on June 9, 1952, theCollege came under the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. In 1954, when the city was mergedwith West Bengal, Chandernagore College was taken over by the Government of West Bengal. This is the beginningof the present chapter in the history of the College.Since 1960, the College is affiliated to Burdwan University. Itoffers Honours and General courses in various subjects of Arts, Science and Commerce Post graduate course inGeography has been introduced in this College in the session 2001-2002. Some new courses like Computer Scienceat the U.G level, P.G courses in French and Bengali has already been introduced. The academic achievements ofthe students of this college have been consistently brilliant. The College is proud of its innumerable Alumni whowere university toppers and are, at present, highly placed in various Research and Academic Institutions both inIndia and abroad. Besides conventional system of education, Chandernagore College study centre under NetajiSubhas Open University provides distance education in a number of subject in Arts, Science and Commercestream.

The College is affiliated to the University of Burdwan, with a morning and a day section. Students of bothgenders are enrolled here for under-graduate courses in Arts, Science & Commerce, and also in post-graduatecourses in Bengali, Geography & French. Incidentally, this institution has the distinction of being the onlygovernment college in West Bengal that offers under-graduate and post graduate courses in French. The collegeis also a nodal centre for Netaji Subhas Open University, with different courses at the graduate and post graduatelevel on offer.”

6. Darjeeling Government College, Darjeeling.

This College established in 1948 in the foot hills of the Eastern Sub Himalayan region, is the only GovernmentCollege in the District town. With about three thousand students on its rolls, UG Honours courses in 14 subjectsand Post graduate in Botany, Zoology, English and Nepali, it is now a Constituent college in the University of NorthBengal. The college runs in three shifts, morning, day and evening. It is a study centre for IGNOU since 1986 andnow has a strength of more than 500 students. The college runs a UGC-approved coaching centre for SC/ST andminority students preparing for NET/SET examinations. A Memorandum of Understanding exists between thecollege and Bose Institute, Kolkata, for collaboration in scientific areas relevant to the local conditions. The CentralLibrary has an extremely rich collection of rare volumes in Tibetan, Nepali and Sanskrit works. One Boys’ hostel,three Girls’ hostel including a post graduate Girls’ hostel takes care of accommodation for outstation students.

7. Durgapur Government College.

Established way back in1970, it is not only the sole government of the home district of Burdwan but alsocaters to the neighbouring districts of Bankura, Purulia and Birbhum. It is the oldest institution of its kind to comeup in this industrial town, initially, to cater to the aspirations for higher education of wards of thousands ofindustrial workers who had come to settle here. Today, the College offers Honours courses in 15 subjects, post-graduate courses in Geology, Chemistry and Conservation Biology as also a post-graduate Zoology course throughNetaji Subhas Open University (distance learning). There also exists a full-time M.Phil. course in Geology. Further,a Career Planning and Placement Cell has successfully arranged interviews for placement in different organizations


like Wipro, ICICI Prudential, IFB Agro and so on. The College also offers two professional UGC-Career OrientedProgrammes for students of the College, viz., Certificate Courses in Wild-Life Census Techniques and in CorporateCommunication.

8. Goenka College of Commerce and Business Administration, Kolkata.

Another century-old government that today ranks among 10 best commerce colleges of India, began itsjourney in 1903, from the premises of Presidency College. Today it is situated in another famous location – 210,Bepin Behari Ganguly Street, the cradle of Science Movement in Bengal, the place where CV Raman worked,which was to become the Indian Association for Cultivation of Science. This is another instance of symbiosisbetween government colleges in the state and Bengal Renaissance. This college caters exclusively to commercesubjects and functions in two shifts – Morning and Day. Here, M. Com. course has started from 2003 and a full-fledged MBA course is about to be launched. The College also has in place an Internal Quality Assurance Cell(IQAC), a Crisis Management Planning Team, a Language Cell, Mrittika – Nature Cell and a EntrepreneurshipDevelopment Cell, to keep abreast of times. Its alumni are a galaxy of eminent personalities in business andindustry. In 2008, this College was adjudged the “ Best College of the Year” by the Mother Teresa Internationaland the Millennium Awards Committee.

9. Haldia Government College, Haldia.

It is one of the new government colleges to be set up in 19 acres of land, in the river-port town and industrialcomplex of Haldia. It started functioning in 1988 and is the only government college of Purba Medinipur. TheCollege offers 11 UG courses at the Honours level and is a nodal study centre for Netaji Subhas Open Universityat the graduate and post-graduate level. A three-year vocational course on Tourism and Travel Management atthis College has become quite popular. A career-counseling cell is in place and campus-recruitment drives ofdifferent companies and corporate houses is a promising feature.

10. Hooghly Mohsin College, Chinsurah.

This famous government college is already 175 years old. With its impressive façade overlooking river Hooghly,this College rekindles fading memories of the architects of modern India. Among them are Bankim ChandraChattopadhyay, Brahmabandhav Upadhyay, Dwijendralal Roy, Biplabacharya Jyotish Chandra Ghosh, MujaffarAhmad, Kanailal Dutta, Charu Chandra Roy, Syed Amir Ali, UN Brahmachari, to name only a few. Presently, theCollege runs 16 (UG) Honours courses and post-graduate courses in Botany, Physiology, English, Political Science,Urdu and Commerce. There is also a 3-year LL.B. course. The library boasts of 1 75 000 titles along with manyIndian and foreign journals. Its collection of rare and old documents is quite impressive and includes amongothers, a set of Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society (1665-1800), Akbarname translated by Revereje,Thornton’s Elementary Botanical Plates (1810) with magnificent steel engravings, Ackermann’s Cambridge (1815)in two volumes with exquisite aquatint etching. These and other valuable documents are being digitized underthe auspices of C-DAC.

11. Jhargram Raj College, Jhargram.

Founded in 1949, originally as Jhargram Agricultural College, today with a campus of 327 acres, it is a premierand the only government degree college in Paschim Medinipur. At the graduate level it offers Honours courses in14 subjects covering Humanities, Science and Commerce streams. Post-graduate courses in Bengali, Chemistryand Zoology are also offered. The College Library with more than 1.5 lakh books is a virtual treasure-trove. Digitalcataloguing is in progress and a two-storied library extension building is there to serve as a reading room for allstudents. Different faculty members are engaged in minor and major research projects. There are separate hostelsfor boys (two) and girls (one), capable of accommodating 270 students.

12. Krishnagar Government College, Krishnagar.

Already 165 years old, this famous Government College on Nadia district have alumni that would read as awho’s who of Bengal’s cultural history. Some of the luminaries who taught here include Ramtanu Lahiri, MadanMohan Tarkalankar, Subodh Chandra Sengupta. People like Akshay Kumar Dutta, Dwijendralal Roy, JagadanandaRoy and Surendra Nath Dasgupta were students of this college. Today the college runs 14 UG courses at Honourslevel and PG courses in Geography, Philosophy and Bengali. The NAAC has already accorded this college ‘A’ Grade.

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13. Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata.

Established in 1939, this government college has produced many illustrious alumni. Even today, it’s academicperformance is enviable. At the UG level, 18 subjects are taught at the Honours level and at the PG level, twosubjects (Geography and Microbiology) are offered. Many teachers are engaged in research at the doctorate andpost-doctorate level with several UGC-sponsored research projects underway. In Geography, Microbiology andZoology department, research scholars are employed in Ph.D. programmes under the guidance of faculty members.

14. Maulana Azad College, Kolkata.

Established way back in 1926, it is another eminent government college with innumerable illustrious alumniwho have made their mark in different spheres of life. The main college building has been declared a heritagestructure by Kolkata Municipal Corporation. The College offers 20 Honours Graduate courses and three Post-Graduate courses ( English, Urdu and Zoology ). It is also a study-centre for Indira Gandhi National Open Universityfor a number of years. The college is proud of its language departments with BA (Honours) courses in Arabic,Bengali. English. Persian, Sanskrit and Urdu. Islamic History and Culture is also taught at the Honours level. Thelibrary has about one lakh titles that includes rare collections of Arabic, Persian and Urdu literature along withinvaluable manuscripts. It is fully computerized and connected online with DELNET, that links different collegeand university libraries in India and abroad.

15. Sanskrit College, Kolkata .

It is common knowledge that this Government College played a pivotal role in the reawakening and shapingof modern Bengal. Widely known also, is that in terms of scholarship and intellectual output, the College contributedimmensely to our understanding of ancient Indian Society and interpretation of ancient Indian texts. In the pre-independence period, it was one of the finest seats of learning in Eastern Philosophy, ancient Indian History andancient Indian languages like Pali and Prakrit. Iswarchandra Vidyasagar was a student here and went on to becomethe college’s first Principal. During his tenure (1851-1858), non-Brahmin students were admitted to the Collegefor the first time. Some of the renowned educationists who followed Vidyasagar as Principal includes MaheshChandra Nyayratna Bhattacharya, Haraprasad Shastri, Surendranath Dasgupta and Gourinath Shastri. A galaxy ofluminaries taught at this College including people like Bimal Krishna Motilal (Philosophy), Madhusudan Gupta(Ayurveda) – who was also the first teacher of Anatomy at Medical College, Kolkata, and Bratindranath Mukherjee(Ancient Indian and World History). Today, the College offers Honours courses in Sanskrit, Linguistics, Pali andAncient Indian & World history – the last three being the only UG departments of their kind in the entire state.Moreover, three new Honours subjects have been newly introduced, viz.,English, Bengali and Philosophy, from2010. The library has an invaluable collection of more than 20000 rare manuscripts, over two lakh books andabout 5000 journals. Scholars from all over the world use this Library even today. The Ayurveda manuscripts havebeen digitized in collaboration with the Central Research Institute of Ayurveda (under their ‘Ayush’ project). Themonographs and lexicons brought out by its publication department have proven to be standard reference in itsfield. The College journal ‘Our Heritage”, one of the foremost indological journals known to scholars the worldover, has been revived after 10 years. The “Haraprasad Shastri Museum” houses very valuable historical artefacts.The ‘Tol’ section comprises Vyakarana, Sahitya and Vedanta.

16. Siliguri Government College, Siliguri.(Later renamed as Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy Government College, Siliguri)

This government college was opened in 2010 to cater to the demand for higher education in science streamsin this metropolis and in the adjoining areas. Though the College presently offers UG courses only in the sciencestream and English, the potential for development of this College is immense.

17. Taki Government College, Taki.

Taki Government College had first opened its doors for the students on 15th September, 1950. The collegehas traversed a long way ever since. Located on the banks of the river ICHHAMATI, the prestigious college hasacquired a place of its own in constructing and defining the destiny of students down the years.

Surrounded by lush greenery, the college is composed of a Science and an Arts Building. There is also anAnnexe Building for the Department of Geography. The college has witnessed pages of history unfolding itself as


it stands as a proud repository of tradition, culture and heritage. The total student strength is about 2500 indifferent courses of studies. The college runs in two sections, Morning and Day. The college offers 12 undergraduatecourses at the Honours level and post graduate course in Bengali.

A computer training centre, NSS and Netaji Shubhas Open University are also attached to the college. Thecollege has a students’ hostel meant to cater to the needs of out-station candidates. The Library is well-stockedand is geared towards an all-round development of the students.

B. Teachers’ Training Colleges:

There are seven Government Teachers’ training Colleges in the State. College of Teacher Education in anycapacity was established at Kolkata in the year 1907 in the name of David Hare. It was the third college after oneat Lahore and second at Madras. Teacher Education system was rightly emphasized by all the Education Commissionand specially by the Kothari Commission (1964). To instill new insights among teachers pre-service and in-serviceTeacher Education is a must. The Government of West Bengal has given due importance to it and establishedTeacher Education Colleges across the State. Excepting century old David Hare Training College at Kolkata, almostall the colleges has completed 50 years. Recently David Hare training College has been upgraded as I.A.S.E andI.O.E.W, Hastings House at Alipore Kolkata and Government Training College, Hooghly have been upgraded asCTEs. Infrastructure and logistics available in I.O.E.W Chandernagore Govt. Training College, Malda, GovernmentCollege of Education, Banipur, Government College of Education, Burdwan are quite capable of delivering thehighest quality of Teacher Education. It would be more effective and useful if there is a synergy / or convergenceof resources. The idea of Bengal University as proposed can definitely provide the opportunities of quality TeacherEducation as demands the present society. Master of Education (M.Ed.) courses have been introduced at DavidHare Training College and Institute of Education for Women, Alipore. Such facilities can be extended further byincreasing the intake capacity and opening such courses in the districts also.

A Compendium of Government Colleges of Teacher Education in the State of West Bengal will definitelyopen a new horizon in resource sharing, arranging extension programme at the Colleges and in extending hands-on-expertise in disseminationg in-service orientation programme at district level, for the success RashtriyaMadhyamik Siksha Abhijan (RMSA). A ‘School of Teacher Education’ can be formed under the aegis of proposedUniversity of Bengal, to impart high end teacher education and to undertake need based research programme inthe field.

C. Physical Education Colleges

There are four Physical Education Colleges in the State at Dinhata (Coochbehar), Hooghly, Banipur (North 24Parganas) and at Hastings House, Kolkata. These old and prestigious institutions run B.PEd. course approved byNational Council for Teacher Education. The Post Graduate Government Institute for Physical Education at Banipuralso runs M.PEd. and M. Phil courses in Physical Education, with vast infrastructure. With these Physical EducationColleges in mind, we propose formation of a separate ‘School of Physical Education’ under the proposed University.

D. Engineering and Technological Colleges

There are six government engineering and technological colleges in the state which have retained theirpride of place over the years. All these colleges are among the first choice of candidates who qualify the engineeringentrance examinations.

1. Government College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology.

Established in 1941 by Prof. Sasadhar Ray, an eminent educationist and a student of Prof. SatyendranathBose, with the aim of imparting knowledge and training for developing skilled manpower for Ceramic and alliedindustries, it is the oldest and one of the premier ceramic colleges of India. The college today offers both B. Tech.and M. Tech. course in Ceramics and B. Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering and in Information Technology.There is 100 % recruitment each year in Ceramic technology from this College. It is recognized as a Public FundedResearch Institution by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research under the Ministry of Science andTechnology, Government of India.

2. Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology.

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immediately after the First World War, with the aim of exploiting indigenous resources of hides, skins and tanningmaterials for producing leather, leather-goods and for the leather industry in the country. In its 91 years of existence,the College has continually supplied technical manpower and made different innovations and improvement intechnology. From 1999-2000 onwards this college also caters to B. Tech. degree in Information Technology andComputer Science and Engineering. It is another College recognized as a Public Funded Research Institute by theDepartment of Scientific and Industrial Research under the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government ofIndia.

3. Government College of Engineering and Textile Technology, Berhampore .

Established in 1927, it started functioning from the Central Jail premises of Berhampore as a governmentSilk Weaving and Dyeing Institute to impart training to local artisans engaged in silk production, under theadministrative control of Directorate of Industries. Later, it shifted to its present location during 1932-33. In 2004,the Textile Technology Department was accredited by the National Board of Accredition (NBA). In addition toB.Tech. degree in Textile Technology, the College has recently opened B.Tech. courses in Mechanical Engineeringand Electrical Engineering.

4. Government College of Engineering and Textile Technology, Serampore .

This is another famous college established way back in 1908 that has always sought to provide innovativesolutions through research, consultancy and education. In addition to B.Tech. in Textile Technology, the Collegealso runs a post graduate programme in Mechanical Processing of Textiles. B.Tech. courses in InformationTechnology and Computer Science & Engineering are also offered. It may be mentioned that with a B.Tech. inTextile Technology, placement in industry is almost assured.

5. Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, Jalpaiguri.

This is the second oldest government engineering college of the state after erstwhile Bengal EngineeringCollege, Shibpore. Set up in 1961, it has maintained its excellence through difficult times and remains one of themost preferred colleges among new entrants. Presently it runs six B.Tech. courses and two M.Tech. courses.

6. Kalyani Government Engineering College, Kalyani.

It is a relatively new government engineering college established in 1995 and within a short time has curvedout a niche for itself among aspirants for engineering studies in our state. There are already B. Tech. courses in 5departments and M.Tech. in 3 departments. The College also offers a MCA course. The prospect of this College isvery promising in the days to come.

E. Art College

Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata.

Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta, the premier art institution of Kolkata, is the pioneer amongthe few art institutions that can boast of celebrating the one hundred and forty fourth year of excellence in theart of painting and craft education in India.Since the inception of Govt. School of Art in 1864, the year it was takenover by the Government, it has prided itself in being one of the most successful art institutions in India.Thejourney that started under the guidance of Sir Henry Hover Locke did find at its helm, eminent artists like E.B.Havell, Percy Brown, and later Ramendranath Chakraborty, Mukul Dey and Chintamoni Kar.Abanindranath Tagore,the key person behind the revival of the Oriental School of painting, had been, for 10 years, the Vice Principal ofthe institute till 1915.The college celebrated its first centenary in 1964 under Chintamoni Kar as the principal,eminent sculptor and a disciple of Sir Henry Moore.Today, the ‘NAAC’-accredited Grade:’A’ college takes pride inimparting art-education to aspiring artists in pre-graduate, under-graduate and post-graduate levels under CalcuttaUniversity and in 2014 is set to celebrate its 150 glorious years of service to the nation.

The Road –Map to University of Bengal

Even a cursory glance at the government colleges of the state would reveal that huge resources andinfrastructure can be optimally utilized by bringing them under a common umbrella, that will constitute theUniversity of Bengal.


Barring two colleges, all of the government colleges conduct Post Graduate courses in various disciplinesnumbering to 43 subjects. M.Phil and M.Tech courses are run in some post graduate departments. A good numberof teachers are engaged in major research programmes sponsored by UGC, DST, CSIR, DBT, ICSSR and similarother peer bodies. Recognition has been garnered by the way of awards like College with Potential for Excellence(CPE) status, DST-FIST award, Institute of Advance Studies in Education and Centre for Teacher Education status,etc.

It is our considered view, arrived at after long and thorough deliberations, that the public-funded governmentcolleges can maintain their excellence and realize their potential under the present educational scenario (whereforeign/private education providers are vying for a share of the pie), only by pooling their resources and unitingunder a separate affiliating state university of government colleges. We do not perceive this as a mere demand.It is the only way to elevate public-funded education to its next level of excellence that would incorporate inclusiveeducation to be accessed by disadvantaged sections of the society. The path or the road-map to our cherisheddream of a classified, affiliating state university, is sketched below.

1. All the 35 government colleges in the state will be upgraded to Post-graduate colleges with the inceptionof the university.

2. All the 35 government colleges will serve as separate campuses of the proposed university and will betreated as constituent colleges of the proposed university.

3. A central administrative campus would be formed at a suitable venue.4. A separate administrative structure comprising of Vice-Chancellor and his office would be constituted. 5. The Executive Council and other statutory bodies will be constituted in the prevalent democratic mode

of representation from all sections of the society capable of contributing meaningfully to the functioningof a university.

6. The Board of studies would be constituted by representation from the constituent colleges of theuniversity.

7. The existing Engineering and Technological colleges would form the School of Engineering andTechnological Studies of the University.

8. The existing Teachers Training colleges would form the School of Teacher Education of the University.9. The Government College of Art and Craft will form the School of Fine Arts of the University.10. The existing Physical Education colleges would form the School of Physical Education of the University.11. Similar other Schools of Studies would be formed out of the existing departments of the constituent

colleges which would include School of Asian Studies, School of Languages, School of Earth-Sciences,School of Life Sciences, School of Socio-economic Studies, School of Law, School of Management, Schoolof Library and information Sciences etc.

12. All the schools will enjoy full academic autonomy and function within the ambit of the university.13. The libraries of the constituent colleges will function under a common portal of networked resource

sharing.14. Common core syllabi will be followed in each subject for all the government colleges.15. Common centralised admission norms will be followed for admission of students in all courses of the

University with all provisions for social justice and equity, as per the Constitution of India.16. Common and continuous evaluation system is to be followed by the university.17. Teachers in constituent colleges would be recruited through the State Public Service Commission as per

prevalent norms and their services will be treated as transferable.18. The University administration will have the power to recommend creation of teaching and non-teaching

posts in any of its constituent colleges or offices.

Over the years, the Government Colleges in our state have inherited and went on to build up stupendousamount of resources. They came to be affiliated to different universities whose standards are non- uniform andfollow different syllabi. The teachers at these colleges are in transferable service and they have been experiencingexposure to different syllabi and various levels of curricula which is reflected in remarkable performance ofstudents of these colleges, whether in Kolkata or in the districts. Formation of a federative affiliating classifiedstate university will be a welcome move in the scenario of higher education in West Bengal.

CORRESPONDENCE 65

Annexure II

Charter of Demands

1) Academic Matters :

a) Scrap the Presidency University Bill, 2009.b) Initiate the process of establishing a classified affiliating State university comprising all government

colleges of West Bengal.c) In view of the crisis that will ensue with the enactment of the proposed Presidency University Act we

demand immediate establishment of new government colleges within Kolkata Municipal area, with atleast 224 new posts (including 54 posts in WBSES) that exists in Presidency College.

d) Take necessary steps to fill up all vacant posts of Principals/ Teachers/ Librarians / Physical Instructorsand non-teaching staff in all government colleges including technological, training and art colleges.

2) Service Matters :

a) Fix the age of superannuation at sixty five years, for all Principals / Teachers / Librarians / PhysicalInstructors in government colleges.

b) Release immediately the full component of arrear pay for UGC 2006 pay-awardees, in a single instalment.c) Implement immediately AICTE pay-scale for teachers and equivalent cadres, in government engineering

and technological colleges (GO had already been issued but requires a corrigendum).d) Take necessary measures for speedy disposal of all pending cases of Career Advancement Scheme.e) Grant immediately with effect from 1.1.2006, the recommended special allowance of Rs.3000 per month,

for Principals in WBSES.f) Ensure with-pay study-leave for Teachers / Librarians / Physical Instructors for higher studies / research

/ Ph.D work / M.Phil work.g) Immediately issue government orders to extend WBES status to Librarians of government colleges.h) Issue necessary orders and fixation formulae for pre-2006 and post-2006 retired Principals/ Teachers/

Librarians/ Physical Instructors in government colleges in the light of UGC pay-award 2006, and releasethe full component of arrears immediately.

3) General:

a) Take all necessary steps to stop violence and unrest in educational institutions in the state and protectthe dignity of students and staff.

b) Refrain from taking any step that promotes privatization and invites foreign capital in the field ofeducation.


ToShri Debasish Sarkar,General Secretary,West Bengal Government College Teachers’ Association,1, Bankim Chatterjee Street,Kolkata-700 073

Sir,

I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated 20.08.2010 addressed to the Chief Minister.

I am also directed to inform you that the Chief Minister has seen your letter and he has forwarded the sameto the Higher Education Department.

Yours sincerely,

(Jaydeep Mukherjee)

No. 630-CACM

CORRESPONDENCE 67

Sri Sudarshan RoychoudhuryHon’ble Minister-in-Charge 23rd August 2010Department of Higher EducationGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt Lake,Kolkata — 700 091

Respected Sir,

May I bring to your kind notice the fact that the Government Teachers’ Training Colleges (i.e. Govt. B. Ed.colleges) are not at all running smooth y because of acute shortage of teaching and non-teaching staff.

It may be mentioned that most of the B.E. colleges have several one-teacher departments and teaching-learning in such a department co es completely to a halt whenever a teacher is transferred from one of thosedepartments of a coIlege without a substitute.

Besides, the process of admission is badly affected when one teacher of a department is transferred withoutsubstitute rendering options in compatible subject almost useless as well. lt may be noted that options are offeredin pairs of compatible method-subjects such as, Physical Science and Mathematics, Physical Science and LifeScience, Bengali and English/Sanskrit, Bengali/English and History, Economics and Geography, Mathematics andGeography, etc. and calls for admission are not entertained in either of the pair of subjects a vacancy exists in oneof the method-subjects. For example, a major teachers’ training college like avid Hare Training College is runningwithout any teacher in Mathematics and Physics departments rendering the Pure Science courses absolutelymeaningless. The condition is more appalling in district colleges like Institute of Education (Chandernagore) orGovernment Teachers’ Training College Malda.

May I further add that the College offices and attached hostels are not running smoothly due to the want ofnon-teaching staff and menial staff in kitchen. If remedial measures are not taken early, the Government Teachers’Training Colleges will face unwelcome marginalization while the number of Self-financing B.Ed. colleges willcontinue to increase.

The list of vacancy position of teaching, Librarian and non teaching staff enclosed herewith, will speak volumesregarding Prevailing/condition in the Government Teachers’ Training Colleges. We hope that, you would initiatean immediate action to alleviate the prevailing undesirable condition of the Government Teachers’ Training Colleges{before the condition worsens further.

Thanking you,Yours truly,


End: List of vacancy position of Teaching Librarian and Non-Teaching post in different Teachers’ Training College


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CORRESPONDENCE 71

Principal Secretary 23rd August 2010Department of Higher EducationGovernment of West BengalBikash Bhavan, Salt LakeKolkata — 700 091

Subject : Inclusion of Librarians of Government Colleges in WBES

Sir,

This has reference to our earlier letters dated 24.05.2009, 0307.2009 and 07.07.2009 regarding the issuanceof appropriate GO. on conferring WBES status to the Librarians of Govt. Colleges. We are still awaiting acommunication in this regard from your end.

Our association has been consistently demanding inclusion of Government College Librarians in the existingWBES. The arguments in favour of our demand are presented below:

1. The State Government has in its recent orders clarified College Librarians as equivalent to teachingcadre in line with MHRD Notifications and UGC regulations

2. Like Teachers, Librarians of Government Colleges are recruited through PSC and their minimumrecruitment qualifications, pay-scales and CAS are similar to that of the teachers as per UGC guidelines.

3. There are various examples in the State services where different types of employees having differentservice conditions share same Service Cadres. Some examples are cited here -

I. In the School Education Department of the State, the WBES Cadre includes the Headmaster ofGovernment Schools, the District Inspector of Schools, Education Officer, Deputy Director andAssistant Director of Physical education, District Officer of Physical Education and Youth Welfare.

II. In the Department of Mass Education and Extension, the Assistant Director, District Social educationOfficer are included in WBES

Ill. In Higher Education Department, the Superintendent of Government Art College has been broughtunder WBES.

IV. In Government Engineering and Technological Colleges, the Principals, Associate and AssistantProfessors and also the Librarians share same Service Cadre namely WBGS.

V. Besides the Librarians of Government Colleges were once included under the West BengalSubordinate Education Service (WBSES) ,but during the course of time their scale of pay havebeen made at par with those of teachers. Naturally they could no longer be treated as members ofWBSES.

Under these circumstances, our association strongly demands that Librarians of Government Colleges shallbe included in the existing WBES without Changing their designation, service conditions and nature of service.

Thanking you,

Yours truly,


Copy to: Director of Public Instruction and Ex-officio Secretary (HE), Government of West Bengal


16th September 2010

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GOVERNTMENT ORDERS ISSUED 139

GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGALHIGHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT APPOINTMENT BRANCH·

BIKASH BHAVAN, SALT LAKE, KOLKATA — 91.

No. 415-Edn(A)/4A-149/04 Dated, Kolkata, the 17th April, 2008.

N O T I F I C A T I O N

In exercise of the power conferred by the provison to article 309 of the constitution of India and in supersessionof earlier notifications on the subject, the Governor is pleased hereby to make the following rules regulatingrecruitment to the posts of professor of Government Colleges in the West Bengal Senior Educational Service(WBSES) :—

Rules1. Method of recruitment (1) By selection (direct recruitment) through the public Service

Commission, West Bengal, Departmental candidates beingeligible to apply; and

(2) by promotion in consultation with the public ServiceCommission, West Bengal, from the post of Reader in WBESor its equivalent posts after five years service in the posts assuch :Provided that fifty percent of the posts in each subject of thecadre shall be filled up by promotion : Provided further that ifthere is only one post of Professor in any subject that will befilled up by promotion.

2. Qualifications for direct recruitment (A) Essentialto the post of professor in subjects (i) Eminent scholar with published work of high quality;other than Visual Arts. actively engaged in research, including experience of

guiding research at Doctoral level with a minimum often years full time teaching experience in Post-Graduatelevel and/or experience in full time reseach at Universityor National Level Institutions;OrOutstanding scholar with established reputation whohas made significant contribution to knowledge;OrMinimum of fifteen years’ full time teaching experienceat Under-Graduate level having a Doctoral Degree in theconcerned or related subject from a recognisedUniversity or Institute, with at least 5 (five) publicationsof high standard.

(ii) Good power of expression in English and Bengali orNepali spoken and written.Note : Proficiency in language which may be of relevancefor the post and the knowledge of English would betested specifically.

(B) Desirable(i) Experience in guiding research projects at Doctoral level.


(ii) Involvement in Research projects in Supervisorycapacity.

3. Qualifications for direct recruitment (A) Essentialto the post of professor of commerce (i) The essential qualifications for direct recruitment to the

post of professor of commerce shall be same as isprescribed under the heading essential in rule 2 of theserules relating to direct recruitment to the post ofprofessor other than visual Arts.

(B) Desirable :(ii) A degree in law or membership of the Institute of

Company of chartered Secretaries or Indian Institutesof Chartered Accountants or Cost Accountants or IndianInstitute of Bankers, or a Diploma in Management froma recognised Institute of Management.

4. Qualifications for promotion : Qualfications for recruitment to the post of professor insubjects other than visual Arts and to the post of professor ofCommerce, by promotion from Reader in W.B.E.S. or itsequivalent post are the same as prescribed for directrecruitment to the posts.

5. Age (for direct recruitment) : Not more than 45 years on the 1st January of the year ofadvertisement, relaxable for persons having higherqualification and/or longer experience then those prescribed.Upper age limit is also relaxable for persons holdingsubstantive appointment under the Teaching Branch of theHigher Education Department of the Government of WestBengal or Government of India. Upper age limit is alsorelaxable for five years in respect of candidates belonging toscheduled castes and scheduled Tribes respectively and forthree years for the candidates belonging to the categories ofOther Backward classes.

By Order of the Governor

Sd/-Prasad Ranjan Roy

Additional Chief Secretaryto the Government of West Bengal

No. 415/1(30) – Edn (A) Dated. 17/04/2008

Copy forwarded for information & necesary action to the :–

1. Director of Public Instruction, West Bengal.2. Finance Department of this Govenment.3. Public Service Commission, West Bengal.4. Principal/Officer-in-charge.5. P. A. to the Additional Chief Secretary,

Higher Education Department.Deputy Secretary to the

Govornment of West Bengal


GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGALHIGHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT APPOINTMENT BRANCH

Bikash Bhavan, Salt Lake, Kolkata-91

No. 1133-Edn(A)/2L-2/09 Dated, Kolkata the 11th December, 2009

From : Shri S. GhoshJoint Secretary to the Government of West Bengal.

To : The Director of Public Instruction, West Bengal,Bikash Bhavan, Salt Lake, Kolkata — 700 091.

Sub : Permission for taking up work of evaluators/scrutineers by the selected collegeteachers of Government College ‘on duly’ basis.

Sir,

I am directed to address you on the above noted subject and to say that the question of giving permission fortaking up work of evaluators/scruitineers for the examination conduct to W.B.S.S.C, D.S.E. and U.G.C. by theselected college teachers of Government College ‘on duly’ basi under active consideration of the Government forsome time past.

After careful consideration, the Governor has been pleased to allow selected college teachers of the Govt.College to perform the above noted work ‘on duty’ basis in observance of the foIlowing guidelines:1. The requisition for performing work as evaluators/scrutineers ‘on duty’ may be restricted actual number of

days spent for such work by the selected Government College teachers, but in no case a total period of suchengagement being more than six days for a teacher.

2. Such assignments may preferably be done during holidays and vacation/recess.3. As a general principle, selection of Government college teachers should be made in such a manner that the

normal academic activities of the college concerned are not stalled.4. No TA. and D.A. for performance of such duties by the government College teachers concerned would be

charged to college/government account. The financial liabilities on account of payment of T.A. and DA.would lie on the W.B.S.S.C./D.S.E./U.G.C.

5. The college authority concerned may be duly informed beforehand of such assignment of the teachers bythe W.B.S.S.C. or its regional offices/D.S.E./U.G.C.

This arrangement comes into operation with immediate effect and remains in force until further orders.

Yours faithfully,Joint Secretary

No. 1133/1(7)-Edn(A)/2L-2/09 Dated, Kolkata the 11th December, 2009

Copy forwarded for information & necessary action to1) The Secretary, S.E.D.2) The Secretary, W.B.C.S.S.C.3) Joint Secretary, C.S. Branch4) P.S. to Minister-in-Charge, Higher Education Department.5) P.A to Principal Secretary Higher Education Department.6) Addl. D.P.I., West Bengal (Admn.)7) Guard File



Bikash Bhavan, Salt Lake, Kolkata — 91.

No. 1144-Edn(A)/10M-54/09 Dated, Kolkata, the 21st December, 2009.

NOTIFICATION

In supersession of all the previous Government orders relating to part time teachers of the State GovernmentColleges, the under signed is directed by orde of the Governor to say that the following provision will be applicablein respect of the part time teachers of the Gopvernment College w.e.f. 01.04.2009i) The part time teachers will be allowed to enjoy the remuneration in the following manner:—

a. Those having less than/equal to 4 years of teaching experience as part time teachers in any Govt.college are allowed to enjoy their remuneration at the rate of Rs. 7,000/- p.m.

b. Those having greater than 4 years but less than 10 years of teaching experience as part time teachers inany Govt., college are allowed to enjoy their remuneration at the rate of Rs. 8,000/- p.m.

c. Those having greater that/equal to 10 years of experience as part time teachers in any Govt. Collegeare allowed to enjoy their remuneration at the rate of Rs. 10,000/- p.m.

d. The superannuated Teacher(s) serving as part time teacher(s) may be offered remuneration @ Rs.7,000/- p.m.

2. Length of service as part time teacher is to be certified by the principal/Teacher-in-charge of the collegereferring to ‘‘the then’’ Governing Body’s Resolution notifying the date of appointment and time to timeextension of service without any break of long duration. Ex-post facto resolution of the Governing Bodynotifying appointment and extension of service in respect of part time Teachers will not be acceptable.In addition, the part time teachers of the Govt. Colleges who have/are served/serving as Examiners of thedifferent examinations of Universities, the certificate of the respective Universities notifying the date ofappointment as Examiners may also be taken into account for consideration the length of service.Those who are engaged in full time assignment elsewhere will not be considered for the above mentionedbenefits.

3. Method of appointment :By Selection (direct recruitment) by the Government Body of the College by following the proceduresmentioned below.

(i) The vacancy shall be advertised by the college authority in atleast two daily leading newspapers (one inEnglish and the other in Bengali) specifying the required qualification & remuneration.

(ii) The application received in response to the advertisement will be scrutinised by the college authorityand the eligible candidate(s) will be called for interview before the selection Committee.

(iii) The selection Committee will consist of the following members :(a) The Principal/Teacher-in-charge of the college will be the Chairman.(b) The Senior most Teacher/HOD of the College in the Subject.(c) An expert, not below the rank of Reader/equivalent, in the subject, nominated by the Vice-

chancellor of the University, to which the college is affiliated.

The selection Committee shall prepare a panel of at least three candidates in order of merit.

4. Part time teachers of the Govt. Colleges should be allotted minimum of 8 classes per week and in addition,they will have to perform invigilation and other duties as assigned by the college & university authoritiesrelating to college/University examination.

5. Not more than 2 part time assignments in respect of any part time teacher will be considered for any suchbenefits as mentioned in this order.


6. For the second assignment the rate of remuneration would be of Rs. 7,000/- only.7. The lower & upper age limit for/of serving as part time teachers in any Govt. College of the state would be

same as that of whole-time Teachers.8. For enjoying the enhanced benefit of remuneration, all the part time teachers who will be appointed in

different Govt. Colleges of the State w.e.f. 01.04.2009 should possess the UGC stipulated qualifications.9. Appointment of part time teachers in any Govt. College to be made on ‘‘TERM’’ basis i.e., appointment for

6 months then a break for 1 day & again for 6 months and so on depending upon the satisfactory performanceof the concerned Part Time Teacher.

10. As per existing norms of whole-time sanctioned posts for each subject (following 4/5/7 policy in recruitmentof Whole-Time Teachers), Part Time Teachers may be appointed depending upon the vacancy position.College authorities will have to renew the tenure\term of the part time teacher(s) considering the totalactual vacancy position in the college in consultation with the affiliating. University.

11. Against one whole-time sanctioned vacant teaching post, maximum 3 (three) part time teachers may beappointed depending upon the justification of work load, In this context the teacher/student ratio,establishment year & the geographic location of the college would be the deciding factors.

12. Subject to necessary amendments in the relevant statutes of different Universities which govern the leaveof part-time teachers of Govt. colleges affiliated to them, the following provisions should be maintained :

(i) Casual Leave, 1/2 average remuneration leave on medical ground and Maternity leave would be availablefor part time teachers of Govt. Colleges of the State.

(ii) For the second assignment in other college only casual leave would be available.13. Remuneration of the part time teachers of Govt. Colleges of the State will be released as ad-hoc grant in

respect of the college authority and the grant will be disbursed as per part time teacher’s list duly approvedby the Government.

14. The college authority have to submit relevant papers/documents to the Director of Public Instruction, WestBengal for Getting prior approval of the Government to enjoy the benefits of remuneration as mentioned inthis order.

This issues with the concurrence of the Finance, Department. vide their U.O. No. 1777 Group– ‘P’ (Service)dt. 03.12.2009.

By order of the GovernorSd/- S. Ghosh

Joint Secretary

No. 1144/1/(13) – Edn (A)., dt. 21.12.2009

Copy forwarded for information & necesary action to the :–

1. Director of Public instruction, West Bengal.2. Director of Technical Education, West Bengal.3. Accountant General (A & E) West Bengal, Treacsury Buildings; Kolkata -1.4. Finance Department, Gr. ‘P’ (Service).5. Pay & Accounts Officers, Kolkata Pay & Accounts Officers, 81/2/2, Phears Lane, Kolkata – 12.6. Principal/Officer-in-charge, ________________________________________________________________7. Treasury Officer, __________________________________________________________________________8. P. S. to Minister-in-charge.9. P. A. to Principal Secretary.10. Joint Secretary, C. S. Brnach of this Department.11. Joint Secretary, Technical Brnach of this Department.12. Joint Secretary, Budget Branch of this Department.13. Guard File.

Assistant Secretary


Anexure II

Government of West BengalFinance Department

Pension Branch

No. 139-F(Pen) Dated Kolkata the 24th February, 2010

M E M O R A N D U M

Sub : Consolidation of pension in respect of the Pre-01 .01 .06pensioners who are in receipt of two pension.

A point has been raised as to how revision of Pension / Family Pension under this DepartmentMemo No. 200-F(Pen) dt.25.02.09 be made in case of a pensioner who is in receipt a of two pension.2. After careful consideration of the matter the Governor as been pleased to decide that where a pensioner is

in receipt of Iwo pensions, consolidation shall he done separately applying formula as per Para 4.1 of FinanceDepartment Memo No.200-F(Pen) dt.25.02.09. The Service Pension of a pensioner may be stepped up tothe minimum ceiling if it is less than Rs.3300/- p.m and the other pension shall remain consolidated only.

3. Two examples are given below —i) A pensioner receives Service Pension @ Rs. 3250/— p.m. and also basic also basic Family Pension @

Rs. 1300/- p.m.His Service Pension of Rs.3250/- p.m. should be consolidated at. Rs.7345/- p.m. and the basic FamilyPension of Rs. 1300/- p.m. shall remain simply consolidated at Rs.2938/- p.m. No question of steppingup of the said pension to Rs.3300/- p.m. arises

ii) A pensioner receives his Service Pension @ Rs. 1300/- p.m. and also receives basic Family Pension @Rs. 1300/- p.m.His Service Pension shall be consolidated and stepped upto Rs. 3300/- p.m. and the Family Pensionshall be consolidated at R.s.2938/- p.m. only.

4. In terms of Para 9 of Finance Department Memo No. 200-F(Pen) dt. 25.02.09, a suitable entry regardingthe revised consolidated Pension shall be made by the Treasury Officer in both halves of the P. P. O. Thepublic Sector Banks under the jurisdiction of Kolkata Municipal Corporation will also make suitableentries in both halves of the P. P.O. regarding revised consolidated pension.

Special Secretary of theGovernment of West Bengal

No. 139/1(1500)-F(Pen) Dated Kolkata the 24th February 2010

Copy forwarded for information and necessary action to :1. The Accountant General (A&E), West Bengal, Treasury BuiIdings, Kolkata - 1.2. The Deputy Accoutant General (Pension), West Bengal, Treasury BuiIdings. Kol - 1.3. The Manager, Reserve Bank of India (Public A/cs Deptt.), 15, N. S. Road, Kolkata - 1.4. The Manager, Reserve Bank of India (Public A/cs Deptt.), Deptt. ot Govt. & Bank Accounts, G-7, Bandra Kurla

Complex, 3rd Floor, Bandra, (East), Mumbai - 51.5. The Directorate of Teasuries & Accounts, 4, Lyons Range, Kolkata - 16. Deptt./Dte.7. The Treasury Officer, ..........................................................................................................................................8. The District Magistrate/ Superintendent of Police/District Judge, ..................................................................9. Pensioners, Association : ...................................................................................................................................

Special Secretary to theGovernment of West Bengal.


GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGALHigher Education Department Appointment Branch

Bikash Bhavan. Salt Lake, Kolkata - 91

No.195–Edn(A) Dated, the22nd March, 2010

MEMORANDUM

Sub : Revision of pension/family pension of post 01.01.2006 Pensioners/Family Pensioners in respect ofTeaching staff including Librarians/Physical Instructors/Instuctresses and equivalent cadres of State GovernmentColleges.

The undersigned is directed to state that the question of modifications of Rule granting pensionary benefitsto the Teaching staff including Librarians/Physical Instructors/Instructresses and equivalent cadres of State Govt.colleges has been under consideration of the Government.

After careful consideration of the matter the Governor has been pleased to decide that the pensionarybenefits in respect of Teaching staff including Librarians/Physical Instructors/Instructresses and equivalent cadresof State Govt. colleges who retire on and from 01.01.2006 shall be determined as follows:-

A. Pension

i) A Government employee retiring in accordance with the provisions of West Bengal Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefit) Rules. 1971 and before completion of minimum qualifying service of 10 years shall notbe entitled to pension, but he/she shall continue to he entitled to gratuity.

ii) Linkage of full pension with 33 years of qualifying service shall he dispensed with. Once a Governmentemployee has rendered a minimum qualifying service of 20 years, pension shall he paid @ 50% of the lastbasic pay drawn. For Government employees who at the same time of retirement have rendered qualifyingservice for 10 years or more but less than 20 years, proportionate reduction shall be made while calculatingthe amount of pension.

The provision, however, shall be applicable w.e.f. 12.10.09.iii) The existing maximum amount of monthly pension of Rs. 11.200/-(Rupees eleven thousand two hundred)

only per month as laid down in the F.D.’s Memo. No.1127-F-(Pen) dated 27.10.1998 shall he raised toRs.35,000/- (Rupees thirty five thousand) only.

iv) The existing minimum amount of monthly pension/family pension of Rs. 1300/-(Rupees one thousand threehundred) only as laid down in the F.D.’s Memo. NO.1127-F(Pen) dated 27.10.1998 shall he raised to 3300/- (Rupees three thousand three hundred) only.

v) Additional PensionThe quantum of pension available to the old pensioners shall be increased as indicated in he following table

with effect from 01.01.2006 :

Age of Pensioners Additional Quantum of Pension

From 80 years to less than 85 years 20% of the basic pensionFrom 85 years to less than 90 years 30% of the basic pensionFrom 90 years to less than 95 years 40% of the basic pensionFrom 95 years to less than 100 years 50% of the basic pension100 years or more 100% of the basic Pension

The Pension Sanctioning Authority shall ensure that the date of birth and the age of pensioner is invariablyindicated in the Single Comprehensive Form to facilitate the Accountant General (A & E), (P.P.O.) to be issued infavour of the pensioners for payment of additional pension by the Pension Disbursing Authority as soon as itbecome; due. The amount of additional pension wil be shown distinctly in the P.P.O.


B. Family Pension

i) Family pension shall be calculated @ 30% of the basic pay drawn last actually or notionally. The maximumceiling of family pension of Rs.6,720/-(Rupecs six thousand seven hundred twenty) only per month shall beraised to Rs. 21,000/- (Rupees twenty one thousand) only per month at normal rate. However, the existingprovision for calculation of family pension at enhanced rate for a specific period will continue.

ii) Additional Family PensionIn addition to the family pension calculated in para (i) above, the quantum of family pension available to theold Family Pensioners shall be increased as indicated in the following table with effect from 01.01.2006 :

Age of Family Pensioners Additional Quantum of Family Pension

From 80 years to less than 85 years 20% of the basic family pensionFrom 85 years to less than 90 years 30% of the basic famiIy pensionFrom 90 years to less than 95 years 40% of the basic family pensionFrom 95 years to less than 100 years 50% of the basic family pension100 years or more 100% of the basic family pension

C. Gratuity

The maximum amount of Death/Retiring Gratuity of Rs 2.5 lakh(Rupees two lakh fifty thousand) only as laiddown in F. D.’s Memo. No.1127-F-(Pen) dated 27. 10. 1998 shall be raised to Rs. 6.0 lakh (Rupees six lakh)only.

D. Regulation of the cases of Pensioners/Family Pensioners

i) Those who have already retired after 01.01.2006 are entitled to have their persionary benefits revised onthe basis of this order, and those who retired during this period from 01.01 .2006 shall get arrear representingthe difference between revised pension and the pension on the basis of the pre–revised pay in three equalannual instalnient beginning from 2009–2010.

ii) The Accountant General(A&E), West Bengal will issue authority for payment of revised pensionary benefitswith effect from 01.01.2006 onwards on the basis of certificate of emoluments as stated above withoutinsisting on issuing of pay certificate.

iii) In the cases of the employees who are already in receipt of pension, the Pension Sanctioning Authority inthe cases, will send previous pension papers along with Service, Book, certificate of emoluments, revisedcalculation sheets showing the calculation of revised pensionary benefits application, if submitted, for furthercommutation of Pension. The Accountant General (A & B). West BengaI will authorize payment of pensionarybenefits at revised rate accordingly so the Pension Disbursing Officer concerned.

iv) The amount of gratuity, if any, paid earlier in respect of employees of this category according to the rulesprevailing at the material time will be adjusted against revised gratuity calculated on the basis of notionalemoluments now authorized by the Accountant General (A & E). West Bengal on the basis of this order.

E. Commutation of Pension

i) An employee shall continue to be entitled to commute for a lump sum payment upto 40% of his pension.ii) The existing table of commutation value for pension shall be substituted by a new Table at

Annexure-l.iii) The revised table of commutation value for pension will be used for all commutations of pension which

become absolute w.e.f. 12.1 0.09.iv) In the case of those Pensioners, in whose case commutation (if pension become absolute on or after the 1st

day of January, 2006, but before 12.10.09, the pre–revised table of commutation value for pension willbecaused for Payment of Commutation of Pension followed on pre-revised pay pension. Such pensionersshall have an option to commuted the amount of pension that has become additionally commutable onaccount of retrospective revision of pay/pension on implementation of the recommendations of the FifthPay Commission. On such option by the pensioner, exercising the revised table of commutation value ofpension will be used for the commutation of the additional amount of pension that has become commutableon account of retrospective revision of pay/pension.


v) In all cases where the date of retirement/commutation of pension is on or after 12.10.09, the revised tableof commutation for pension will be used for commutation of pension.

This order issues with the concurrence of Finance Department vide their U.O.No. I 64-F(Pen) dated 12.03.2010.

Sd/- S. GhoshJoint Secretary

No.195/1 (14)—Edn(A) Dated, the 22nd March. 2010

Copy forwarded for information and necessary action to the :1.Accountant General (A & E), W.B.; 2. Finance Department of this Government; 3. Director of PublicInstruction, W.B.; 4. He is requested to take necessary step for wide circulation of this order. 5. Kolkata Pay& Accounts Officer-I 81/2/2. Phears Lane. Kolkata-700 012; 6. Kolkata Pay & Accounts Officer-II, P-I, HydeLane. Kolkata-700073; 7. Director of Treasuries New India Assurance Building, 4, Lyons Range (2nd & 3rd

floor), Kolkata-700 001; He is requested to take necessary steps for circulation of this order among theTreasuries/Sub-Treasuries under his control. 8. Joint Secretary, C.S. Branch, Higher Education Department.W.B.; 9. Joint Secretary, University Branch, W.B.; 10. Director of Technical Education, W.B.; 11. Joint Directorof Public Instruction(A/cs & Pen), W.B.; 12. Computer Cell of this Department; 13. P.S. to the M.I.C., HigherEducation Department; 14. P.A. to the Principal Secretary of this Department; 15. Guard File.

Joint Secretary

ANNEXURE IREVISED COMMUTATION VALUE FOR A PENSION OF RS. 1 PFR ANNIUM

In term of Memo. No.

Age on Commutation Age on Commutation Age on Commutationnext value expressed as next value expressed as next value expressed as

birthday number of year’s birthday number of year’s birthday number of year’spurchase Purchase Purchase

20 9.188 41 9.075 62 8.09321 9.187 42 9.059 63 7.18222 9.186 43 9.040 64 7.86223 9.185 44 9.019 65 7.73124 9.181 45 8.996 66 7.59125 9.183 46 8.971 67 7.13126 9.182 47 8.943 68 7.26227 9.181 48 8.913 69 7.08328 9.178 19 8.881 70 6.89729 9.176 50. 8.846 71 6.70330 9.172 51 8.808 73 6. 29631 9.169 52 8.768 73 6. 29632 9.164 53 8.724 74 6.08533 9.159 54 8.678 75 5.87234 9.152 55 8.627 76 5.65735 9.145 56 8.572 77 5.44336 9.136 57 8.512 78 5.22937 9.126 58 8.416 79 5.01838 9.116 59 8.371 80 4.81239 9.103 60 8.287 81 4.61140 9.090 61 8.194

[Basis : LIC(94-96) Ultimate tables and 8.00% interest.



Bikash Bhavan. Salt Lake, Kolkata - 91

No.196–Edn(A) Dated, the22nd March, 2010MEMORANDUM

Sub: Revision of Pension/family pension of pre 01.01.2006 Pensioners/Family Pensioners in respect ofTeaching staff including Librarians/Physical Instructors/Instructresses and equivalent cadres ofState Government Colleges.

The under signed is directed to state that the Governor has been pleased to revise the pension/family pensionof pre 2006 in respect of teaching staff including Librarians/Physical Instructors/Instructresses and equivalentcadres State Govt. colleges.2. These orders will apply to all pre 2006 pensioners/family pensioners who were drawing Pension/Family

Pension on 31.12.2005 under the provision of West Bengal Services (Death-cum-retirement Benefit) Rules,1971, the W.B.S.(Revision of Pension) Rules, 1952 and 1966, W.B.S. (extraordinary pension) Rules, 1971.

3. In these orders-a) ‘‘Existing Pensioners” or “Existing Family Pensioners” means pensioners who were drawing/entitled to

Pension/Family pension on 31.12.2005.b) “Existing Pension” means the basic pension inclusive of commuted portion, if any due on 31.12.2005.

It covers all classes of pension under West Bengal Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefit) Rules, 1971 or any other rules/orders mentioned in para 2 above, as issued by the State Government for theStaff noted at para 1 above from time to time.

c) “Existing Family Pension” means the basic family pension/ex-gratia family pension/ad-hoc familypension/extraordinary family pension due on 31.12.2005 under the W.B.S.(Death-cum-RetirementBenefit) Rules, 1971, the W.B.S.(Extraordinary Pension) Rules, 1971 or Family Pension Scheme, 1965.

d) ‘‘Dearness Pension” means dearness relief equal to 50% of the basic pension.4.1 Subject to the provisions of the memo. no.139-F(Pen) dt 24.02.2010 of the F.D. (Pension Br.) the pension/

family pension of existing pre 2006 pensioners/family pensioners will be consolidated with effect from01.01.2006 by adding together

a) The Existing Pension/Family Pension;b) Dearness Pension, where applicable, @ 50% of basic pension family pension on notional basis;c) Dearness Relief upto AICPI(IW) average index 536 (base year 1982 = 100), i.e. 24% of basic pension/

basis family pension plus Dearness Pension @ 50% of the basic pension/basic family pension whereapplicable, on notional basis;

d) Fitment weightage 40% of the existing pension/family pensionProvided that if the total amount so arrived at, is less than Rs.3300/-. the same shall be, stepped uptoRs. 3300/-Further provided that in case of a pensioner who is in receipt of more than one pension, the ceiling ofRs. 3000/- stated in the foregoing provison shall not be applicable separately for each pension but only(once and) on the aggregate amount of all pensions taken together.The amount so arrived at will be regarded as consolidated pension/family pension with effect from01.01.2006.

4.2 The upper ceiling of pension/family pension has been increased from Rs. 11,200/- and Rs. 6720/- toRs.35,000/- and Rs. 21,000/- respectively.

4.3 The fixation of pension will be subject to the provision that the revised pension in no case, shall be lowerthan 50% of the minimum of the pay in the Pay Band plus the Academic Grade Pay (AGP) in the revised paystructure corresponding to the revised ised pay scale from which the pensioner had retired.

4.4 The quantum of pension/family pension available to the old pensioners/family pensioners be increased asfollows:—


Age of Pensioners Additional Quantum of Pension

From 80 years to less than 85 years 20% of the revised basic pension/family pensionFrom 85 years to less than 90 years 30% of the revised basic ension/family pensionFrom 90 years to less than 95 years 40% of the revised basic pension/family pensionFrom 95 years to less than 100 years 40% of the revised basic pension/family pension100 years or more 50% of the revised basic pension/family pension

The amount of additional pension will be shown distinctly in the pension payment order.5.(a) In view of pension/family pension of pre 01.01.2006 of the above mentioned Employees the dearness relief

to the pensioners/family pensioners shall be paid according to the revised formula as followed w.e.f.01 .04.2008, 01 .06.2008, 01.11.2008. 01. 03. 2009 and 01. 04. 2009 (Finance Department’s memo no.1692-F dt.23.02.2009) :

Period for which payable Rate of Dearness Relief per month

01.04.2008 to 31.05.2008 2%01.06.2008 to 31.10.2008 6%01.11.2008 to 28.02.2009 9%01.03.2009 to 31.03.2009 12%01.04.2009 onward 16%

For this purpose :i) Pension/ex-gratia pension/family pension/ad-hoc family pension/ex-gratia family pension/extraordinary

pension as applicable in respect of an employee who retired or died prior to the 1st day of January, 2006,means the consolidated pension or consolidated family pension, as the case may be effective from 01.01.2006.

ii) Payment of relief involving an fraction of a rupee shall be rounded offer the next higher rupee.iii) Other provisions governing grant of relief to pensioners not mentioned in this order, such as regulation of

relief during re-employment, regulation of relief where more than one pension is drawn etc. will remainunchanged.

iv) For the purpose of payment of relief sanctioned herein, the Accountant General (A&E), W.B., will issueauthority to Public Sector Banks in Kolkata and the Accountant General of other States.

v) The Treasury Officers will give effect of this order without the authority of the Accountant General (A&E),W.B.

(b) Medical Relief :Pensioners/Family Pensioners under this memorandum are entitled to Medical Relief(Rs.300/- per month.)

6. All the Treasary Officers disbursing pension to the pensioners/family pensioners are hereby authorized topay pension/family pension etc. to the existing pernsioner/family pensioner/ at the consolidated rates withoutany further authorization from the Accountant General (A&E), W.B. The Accountant General (A&E), W.B. willissue authority for this payment to all Public Sector Banks in Kolkata and also to the Accountant General ofother States.

7. A suitable entry regarding the revised consolidated pension shall be made by the Treasury Officer in bothhalves of the Pension Payment Order. An intimation regarding the disbursement of revised pension may besent by the Treasur’y Officer to the Accountant General (A&E), W.B., who issued the Pension Payment Orderin the form given at Annexure-I to this memorandum to enable the latter to update the Pension PaymentOrder Register maintained by them. The Public Sector Banks in Kolkata will also send such intimation in theprescribed form to the Accountant General (A&E), W.B. An acknowledgement shall be obtained by all PensionDisbursing Officers from the accountant General (A&E), W.B. in this respect.

8. The consolidated pension/family pension as worked out in accordance with para 4.1 to 4.3 shall be treatedas final “Basic Pension” w.e.f. 01.01.2006 and shall qualify for grant of relief on pension sanctioned thereafter.

9. The arrears pension in respect of the period from 01.01.2006 on account of consolidated of pension/familypension shall be paid in three equal annual instalments beginning 2009—2010. If any pensioner/familypensioner has expired during this period, the arrear pension may be paid to his/her nominee(s) or in case ifthere is no nomination to his/her legal heir(s).


10. Where. the pension is increased due to consolidation, such increased pension will not be considered forfurther commutation.

11. This order is issued with the concurrence of Finance Deptt. vide their U.O. no. 164-F(Pen) dt. 12.03.2010.12. The Accountant General and concerned others are being informed.

Sd/- Ghosh, Joint Secretary

No.196/1(1 4)–Edn(A) Dated, the 22nd March, 2010

Copy forwarded for information and necessary action to the :1. Accountant General (A&E), W.B.; 2. Finance Department of this Government; 3. Director of PublicInstruction, W.B.; He is requested to take necessary step for wide circulation of this order. 4. Kolkata Pay &Accounts Officer-I, 81/2/2. Phears Lane, Kolkata-700 012; 5. Kolkata Pay & Accounts Officer-Il, P-1, HydeLane, KolkaL-700073; 6. Director of Treasuries, New India Assutance Building, 4, Lyons Range(2nd & 3rd

floor), Kolkata 700 001; He is requested to take necessary steps for circulation of this order among heTreasuries/Sub-Treasuries under his control. 7. Joint Secretary, C.S. Branch, Higher Education DepartmentW.B. 8. Joint Secretary, University Branch, W.B.; 9. Direct of Technical Educatioh, W.B.; 10. Joint Director ofPublic Instruction (A/cs & Pen), W.B.; 11. Computer Cell of this Department; 12. P.S. to the M.I.C., HigherEducation Department; 13. P.A. to he Principal Secretary of this Department; 14. Guard File.

Joint Secretary

ANNEXURE – IREVISED COMMUTATION VALUE FOR A PENSION OF RS. 1 PFR ANNIUM

In term of Memo. No.

Age on Commutation Age on Commutation Age on Commutationnext value expressed as next value expressed as next value expressed as

birthday number of year’s birthday number of year’s birthday number of year’spurchase Purchase Purchase

20 9.188 41 9.075 62 8.09321 9.187 42 9.059 63 7.18222 9.186 43 9.040 64 7.86223 9.185 44 9.019 65 7.73124 9.181 45 8.996 66 7.59125 9.183 46 8.971 67 7.13126 9.182 47 8.943 68 7.26227 9.181 48 8.913 69 7.08328 9.178 19 8.881 70 6.89729 9.176 50. 8.846 71 6.70330 9.172 51 8.808 73 6. 29631 9.169 52 8.768 73 6. 29632 9.164 53 8.724 74 6.08533 9.159 54 8.678 75 5.87234 9.152 55 8.627 76 5.65735 9.145 56 8.572 77 5.44336 9.136 57 8.512 78 5.22937 9.126 58 8.416 79 5.01838 9.116 59 8.371 80 4.81239 9.10.3 60 8.287 81 4.61140 9.090 61 8.194

[Basis : LIC(94-96) Ultimate Tables and 8.00% interest.



No. 379-Edn(A)/10M-20/10 Dated, Kolkata, the 28th April, 2010.

NOTIFICATION

In partial modification of this Department’s Notification No.1144-Edn(A)/10M-54/09 dated 21.12.09, theundersigned is directed by the order of the Governor to say that the following norms would be followed forengagement of part-time teachers in Government Colleges and payment of their remuneration with effect from01.04.09.1. Total length of service of the pert-time teacher in a college is to be certified by the Principal/Officer-in-

charge of the college concerned at the material point of time.2 For new selection the procedures required to be maintained are as follows :

I. The Principal/Officer-in-Charge will advertise the vacancy position(s) in at least two daily leadingnewspapers (one in English and other in Bengali/other languages like Nepali, Urdu etc.) specifying therequired qualification and remunerations as per existing G.O.

II. The applications received in response to the advertisement will be scrutinized by the college authorityand the eligible candidate(s) will be called for interview before the selection committee formed by thePrincipal/Officer-in-Charge of the college.

III. The Selection Committee will consist of the following members :a. The Principal Officer-in-Charge of the College will be the Chairman.b. One senior teacher in the subject selected by the Principal/Officer-in-charge of the college.c. An expert not below the rank of Reader/Associated Professor in the subject of any other college

be entrusted with this work.3. Retired teachers of Colleges and Universities may be engaged as part-time teachers with a fixed monthly

remuneration of Rs. 7000/- (Rupees seven thousand) only irrespective of their length of service as part-timeteacher.

4. Part-time teachers of government colleges are entitled to avail of 14 days casual leave in a calendar year, 1/2 average remuneration leave on production of medical certificate from registered medical practitioner andmaternity leave as admissible under Government rules.

5. Part-time teachers who will be engaged with effect from 01.04.09 should possess extant U.G.C. stipulatedqualifications. However, in the event of non availability of such qualified candidates, 55% marks in PostGradute level would be the minimum eligible criteria for selection of a part-time teacher.

6. Remuneration of part-time teachers will be charged against the Salary Head (Head of Accounts: 2202-03-103-NP-009V-01-Salaries, 2205-00-101-NP-00IV-01-Salaries, 2204-00-101 NP-003V-01 Salaries and 2204-00-101-NP-004V-01 Salaries).

7. Part-time teachers may be engaged depending on the need of the college, on purely temporary basis in thefollowing manner:

I. Maximum of three Part-time Teachers against one sanctioned full time post.And/Or

II. One Part-time teacher against one Part-time post already sanctioned may be engaged

Sd/- S. GhoshJoint Secretary

No. 379/1(50)-Edn(A)/10M-20/101 Dated, Kolkata, the 28th April, 2010.

Copy forwarded for information & necessary action to the:-1. Accountant General (A&E), West Bengal, Treasury Buildings, Kolkata-1. 2. Director of Technical Education,

West Bengal. 3. Finance Deptt., Group-P (Service). 4. Pay & Accounts Officer, Kolkata Pay & Accounts Office,81/2/2, Phears Lane, Kolkata-12.


5. Principal/Officer-in Charge, 6. Treasury Officer, 7. P.S. to Minister-in-Charge. 8. P.A. to Principal Secretary.9. Joint Secretary, C.S. Branch of this Deptt. 10. Joint Secretary, Technical Branch of this Deptt. 11. Joint Secretary,

University Branch of this Deptt. 12. Assistant Secretary, Appointment Branch of this Deptt. 13. D.A., Guardfile.

Joint Secretary.


Bikash Bhavan, Salt Lake, Kolkata - 91.

No. 531-Edn(A)/5P-16/09 Dated, Kolkata, the 15th June, 2010

MEMORANDUM

After issue of this Department Memorandum no. 88-Edn(A)/5P-116/09 dated 18.02.10 which clarified certainmatters, interalia, in the light of uploading of draft UGC Regulation on “Minimum Qualification For Appointmentof Teachers And Other Academic Staff In Govt. Colleges And Measures For The Maintenance of standards InHigher Education, 2009” in the website of UGC, certain references with regard to the cut-off date up to whichpromotion/CAS related matters can be processed, have been received. The matter was referred to the U.G.C.Following response received from them, further clarifications, as below, are issued, in partial modification ofabove mentioned Memorandum of this Department :i) All promotions/CAS related matters will be processed following extant UGC regulations and the redesignation

of teachers and equivalent grades subsequent to revision of their pay will be as per stipulations of MHRD’Sorder no. 1-32/2006-UII/U.l(1) dated 31st December, 2008.

ii) Direct recruitment at Associate Professor level with AGP of Rs. 9,000/- can not be done till new guidelines/regulations are issued by the UGC in this regard.

iii) As and when UGC modifies existing Regulation, 2000 or issues new relevant regulations dealing with thismatter, the same would apply; and, cut-off date for any purpose, will apply accordingly.

Sd/-S. Ghosh

Joint Secretary

No. 531/1(13)-Edn(A)/5P-16/09 Dated, Kolkata, the 15th June, 2010.

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, Kolkata-700001, Kolkata Pay & Account Office-II, 81/2/2, Phears Lane, Kolkata-700012.5. Pay & Accounts Office, Kolkata-II, Kolkata Pay & Hyde Lane, Kolkata-700073.6. The Director of Treasuries, New India Assurance BIds. Lyons Range, Kolkata-700001.7. Joint Secretary, University Branch of this Department.8. Joint Secretary, C.S. Branch of this Department.9. Computer Cell of this Department.10. P.S. to Minister-in-Charge, Higher Education Department.11. P.A. to Principal Secretary of this Department.12. Guard File.13. Director of Technical Education. West Bengal.

Joint Secretary


GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGALHigher Education Department

Technical BranchBikash Bhavan, Salt Lake, Kolkata - 700 091.

No.: 434 Fdn(T)/(T) -10M-36/09 Dated : Kolkata, the 26th July, 2010

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

To : The Director of Technical Education, West Bengal

Sub : Revision of Pay Scales of Principal, Teachers, and Librarians of 6 (six) GovernmentEngineering and Technological Colleges in West Bengal with effect from 01.01.2006.

The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department earlier order no. 588-Edn(T) / 1GM — 36 /09 dated24.09.2009 vide which State Govt. had provided ad-hoc interim relief to above categories of employees pendingissuance of final revised pay fixation orders after obtaining suitable inputs from AICTE/Govt. of India.

In observance of the letter no 23-1 / 2008 — TS.II dated 07. 1 0.2009 as forwarded by the Ministry of HumanResources Development, Govt. of India to the State Govt., read with AICTE Notification F. No 37-3/Legal/2010dated 05.03.2010. which was subsequently published in the Extraordinary Gazette Notification of Govt. of India-No. 70. Part III, Section 4, dated 13.03.2010, the State Government, taking into consideration other local condlitions,has decided to Fix the pay of the above mentioned categories of Govt. employees in the revised pay structurewith corresponding Academic Grade Pay (AGP) along with re-designation as applicable to them with effect fromthe 1st day of January, 2006. The Govt. of lndia has offered to render financial assistance to the extent of 80% ofaddlitional expendliture involved in the implementation of the revision subject to the following conditions

(i) The central assistance on this account will be available from the period from January 1st 2006 to March31, 2010.

(ii) The State Govt. will take over the entire financial liability for maintaining the revised Pay structure witheffect from April 1 , 2010.

(iii) The central assistance will be restricted to revision of Pay scales in respect of only those posts whichwere in existence and had been Filled up as on January 1, 2006.

2. Drawal of Pay in the Revised Pay Structure

Every Govt. employee will draw pay in the revised pay structure applicable to the post to which he/she isappointed; provided that an employee may elect to continue to draw pay in the existing scale until the date onwhich he/she earns his/her next or any subsequent increment in the existing scale or until he/she vacates his/herpost or ceases to draw pay ii that scale: provided further that in cases where a Govt. employee has been placed ina higher pay scale ( pre-revised) between the period from 01.01.2006 to the date of this order on account ofpromotion/upgradation of pay scale etc.. such Govt. employee may elect to switch over to the revised pay-structurefrom the date of such promotion/upgradation as the case may be.

Explanation I. — The option to retain existing scale under the first proviso of this order, will be admissibleonly in respect of one existing scale.

Explanation II. - The aforesaid option will not be admissible to any person appointed to a post on or after01.01.2006, whether for the first time in Govt. service or by transfer from another post, and he/she will beallowed pay only in the revised pay structure.


Explanation Ill. - Where a Govt. employee exercises the option under the provisos to this order to retain theexisting scale in respect of a post held by him/her in an officiating capacity on a regular basis for the purpose ofregulation of pay in that scale under any rule or order applicable to that post, his/her substantive pay will be thesubstantive pay which he/she would have drawn had he/she retained the existing scale in respect of the permanentpost on which he/she holds a lien or would have held lien had his/her lien not been suspended or the Pay of theofficiating post which has acquired the character of substantive pay in accordance with any order for the timebeing in force, whichever is higher.

3. Exercise of Option

(1) The option under the provisos to para 2 of this order will be exercised in writing in the form appended toschedule—I, to the Head of his/her institution /office within three months from the date of issuance of thisorder; provided that

(i) a Govt. employee, who on the date of issuance of this order, is on leave or deputation or on foreignservice. the said option will be exercised in writing so as to reach the said authority within three monthsof his/her return from such leave or deputation or foreign service as the case may be; and

(ii) a Govt. employee, who is under suspension on the date of issue of this order, will exercise the saidoption within three months of the date of his/her return to his/her duties or within three months ofthe date of issuance of this order, whichever is later.

(2) The option once exercised will be final.Note 1.- A Govt. employee whose service terminated on or after 01 .01 .2006 and who is unable to exercise

the option on account of (discharge, dismissal on disciplinary ground or resignation within theprescribed period will be entitled to the benefits of exercising option under this proviso

Note2.- A Govt. employee, who died on or after 01.01.2006 within the prescribed period, will be deemedto have exercised option for the revised pay structure on and from 01.01.2006 or from suchsubsequent date as is considered most beneficial to him/her, had he/she been alive.

Note3.- A Govt. employee who was on leave or any other leave on 01 .01 .2006 and is entitled him/herleave salary, will be allowed the benefits of this proviso.

4. Fixation of Pay in the Revised Pay Structure

(1) The initial Pay of a Govt. employee who elects or is deemed to have elected under provisos of para 3 to begoverned by the revised pay structure on and from 01 .01 .2006, will, unless in any case the Governor byspecial order otherwise directs, be Fixed separately in respect of his/her substantive pay in the permanentpost on which he/she holds a lien or would have held a lien, had his/her lien not been suspended and inrespect of his/her pay in the officiating post held by him/her in the following manner namely:—

(i) The pay in the pay band of a Govt. employee who continued in service after 31st December 2005, willbe determined by multiplying his/her existing basic pay as on 1st day of January, 2006, by a factor of1.86 and rounding off the resultant figure to the next multiple of 10 while determining the pay in thepay band. Paisa below rupee one shall be ignored.

(ii) If the minimum of the revised pay band is more the amount arrived at, as per (i) above, the pay will befixed at the minimum of the revised pay band.

(iii) In addition to the pay in the pay band as determined in the above manner, Academic Gradle Pay (AGP)corresponding to the existing scale will be payable.

(2) Revised Pay Scales, Service conditions and Career Advancement Scheme for teachers and equivalentpositions :

The pay structure for different categories of teachers and equivalent positions shall be as indicated below:a) Assistant Professor/Associate Professors/Professors in Technical Institutions

i) Persons entering the teaching profession in Technical Institutions shall be designated as Asstt.Piofessors and shall be placed in the pay band of Rs.15,600-39,l00/- with A.G.P. of Rs. 6,000/-.Lecturers already in service in the pre-revised scale of Rs. &000- 13,500/-, shall be re-designatedas Asstt. Professors with the said A.G.P. of Rs. 6,000/-.

ii) An Asstt. Professor with completed service of 4 years, possessing Ph.D degree in the relevantbranch of discipline shall be eligible, for moving upto A.G.P. of Rs. 7,000/-.


iii) Asstt. Professors possessing Master’s degree in the relevant branch/discipline as defined forTechnical Education shall be eligible for AGP of Rs. 7,000/-after completion of 5 years service asAsstt. Professor.

iv) Asst. Professors who (do not have Ph.D or a Master’s degree in the relevant Branch /discipline ofa program shall be eligible for AGP. of Rs.7,000/- only after completion of 6 years of service asAsstt. Professor.

v) Upward movement from AGP of Rs. 6,000/- to AGP of Rs. 7,000/- for all Asstt. Professors shall besubject to their satisfying other conditions as laid down by AICTE.

vi) The pay of the incumbents to the posts of Lecturer (Senior scale) (i.e. the pre-revised scale of Rs.10,000-15,200) shall be re-designated as Asstt. Professor and be fixed at the appropriate stage inPay Band of Rs. 15,600-39,100 based on their present pay with AGP of Rs. 7,000/-.

vii) Asstt. Professor with compIeted service of 5 years at the AGP of Rs.7,000/-shall be eligible, subjectto other requirements laid down by the AICTE, to move up to the AGP of Rs. 8.000/-.

viii) Posts of Associate Professor shall be in the Pay Band of Rs. 37,400-67,000, with AGP ofRs. 9,000/-. Directly recruited Associate Professors shall be placed in the Pay Band of Rs. 37,400-67,000 with an AGP of Rs. 9,000/- at the appropriate stage in the Pay Band in terms of the conditionsof appointment.

ix) Incumbent Asstt. Professor and Incumbent Lecturers (Selection Grade) who have completed 3years in the pre-revised pay scale of Rs. 12,000-18,300/- on 1.1.2006 shall be placed in Pay Bandof Rs.37,400-67,000/- with AGP Pay of Rs.9,000/- and shall be re-designated as Associate Professor.

x) Incumbent Asstt. Professor and Incumbent Lecturers (Selection Grade) who had not completedthree years in the pay scale of Rs. 12,000- 18,300/- on 1.1.2006 shall be place at the appropriatestage in the Pay Band of Rs. 15,600-39, 100/- with AGP of Rs.8,000/- till they complete 3 years ofservice in the grade of Lecturer (Selection Grade) and thereafter shall be placed in the higher PayBand of Rs.37.400-67.000/- and accordingly re-designated as Associate Professor.

xi) Lectures (Selection Gradle) in service at present shall continue to be designated as Lecturer(Selection Grade), as the case may be , until they are placed in the Pay Band of Rs.37,400-67,000/- and re-designated as Associate Professor in the manner (lescribed in (x) above.

xii) Asstt. Professor completing 3 years of teaching in the AGP of Rs.8,000/- shall be eligible subject toother conditions, that may be prescribed by AICTE as applicable, to move to the Pay Band ofRs. 37,400-67,000/- with AGP of Rs. 9,000/- and to be designated as Associate Professor.

xiii) Associate Professor completing 3 years of service in the AGP of Rs.9,000/-and possessing a Ph.Ddegree in the relevant discipline shall be eligible to be appointed and designated as Professor,subject to other conditions of academic performance as laid down by the AICTE. No teacher otherthan those with a Ph.D shall be promoted, appointed or designated as Professor. The Pay Band forthe Post of Professors shall be Rs.37,400-67,000/- with AGP of Rs. 10,000/-.

xiv) The pay of a directly recruited Professor shall be fixed at a stage not below Rs.43,000/- in the PayBand of Rs.37,400-67,000/-, with the applicable AGP of Rs. 10,000/-.

xv) Ten percent of the posts of Professors in a AICTE approved Institution shall be in the higher AGP ofRs. 1 2,000/-, however, teachers appointed to the posts shall continue to be designated as Professor.Eligibility for appointment as a Professor in the higher Academic Grade Pay shall be as may be laiddown by the AICTE, and such eligibility conditions shall, inter alia, include publications in peerreviewed/referred Research Journals and the requirement of at least 10 years of teaching asProfessor and post-doctoral work of a high standard. No person appointed dlirectly as Professor inthe AGP of Rs.12,000/- shall be fixed at a stage less than Rs. 48,000/- along with the AGP.

xvi) For initial direct recruitment at the level of Associate Professors and Professors, the eligibilitycondition in respect of academic and research requirements shall be as may be or have beenprescribed by the AICTE, through regulations and as may be laid down by the AICTE.

xvii) All advancements to higher grade pays in various cadres will be effected subject to completion oftwo AICTE approved refresher programs of not less than two weeks duration each and two oneweek each TEQIP sponsored programs.

b) Pay Scales of Principals :Appointments to the posts of Principal in Technical Institutions shall be based on the conditions of


eligibility in respect of educational qualifications and teaching/research experience laid down by AICTEfrom time to time. The posts of Principal shall be in the Pay Band of Rs. 37,400-67,000/- with AGP ofRs.10,000/- plus a Special Allowance of Rs. 3,000/- per month. All Principals in service shall beappropriately fixed in the Pay Band with the AGP of Rs. 10,000/- plus a Special Allowance ofRs. 3,000/- per month.

c) Pay Scales and Career Advancement Scheme for Librarian :

Librarian :(i) Librarian in the pre-revised scale of pay of Rs.8000-13500 shall be placed in the Pay Band of

Rs. 15600-39100 with AGP of Rs.6000.(ii) All the conditions of eligibility and academic qualifications laid down by the AICTE shall be applicable

for dlirect recruitment of Librarian.

Librarian (Sr. Scale):(i) The posts of Librarian (Sr. Scale) in the pre-revised scale of pay of Rs.10,000-15,200 shall be placed

in the Pay Band of Rs. 15,600-39,100 with AGP of Rs.7000.(ii) Librarian (Sr. Scale) possessing Ph.D in Library Science at the entry level, after completing service

of 4 years in the AGP of Rs.6000 and if otherwise eligible as per guidelines laid down by the AICTEshall be eligible for the higher AGP of Rs.7000 within the Pay Band of Rs.15600-39100.

(iii) Librarian (Sr. Scale) not possessing Ph.D. but only M.Phil in Library Science at the entry level aftercompleting service of 5 years in the AGP of Rs.6000, if otherwise eligible as per guidelines laiddown by the AICTE, shall become eligible for the higher AGP of Rs. 7000.

(iv) After completing service of 6 years in the AGP of Rs.6000 Librarian (Sr. Scale) without the relevantPh.D and M.Phil shall, if otherwise eligible as per guidelines laid down by the AICTE move to thehigher AGP of Rs.7000.

(v) The pay of the existing Librarian (Sr. Scale) in the pre-revised scale of pay of Rs.10000-15200 shallbe fixed in the Pay Band of Rs.15600-39100 with AGP of Rs.7000 at an appropriate stage based intheir present pay.

Librarian (Selection Grade):(i) On completion of service of 5 years, Librarian (Sr. Scale) shall be eligible for the post of Librarian

(Selection Grade) in Pay Band of Rs. 15600-39100, with Academic Grade Pay of Rs.8000, subjectto their fulfilling other conditions of eligibility (such as Ph.D. degree or equivalent published worketc. for Librarian (Selection Grade) as laid down by the AICTE. They shall be designated as Librarian(Selection Grade) as the case may be.

(ii) The existing process of selection by a Selection Committee shall continue in respect of promotionto the post of Librarian (Selection Grade).

(iii) After completing 3 years in the Pay Band of Rs. 15600-39100 with an AGP of Rs.8000, Librarians(Selection Grade) shall move to the Pay Band of Rs.37400-67000 and AGP of Rs.9000, subject tofulfilling other conditions of eligibility laid down by the A1CTE.

(iv) Incumbents to the posts of Librarian (Selection Grade) who have completed three years in thepre-revised pay scale of Rs.12000-18300 on 1.1.2006 shall be fixed at an appropriate stage in thePay Band of Rs.37400-67000 with an AGP of Rs.9000. They shall continue to be designated asLibrarian (Selection Grade).

(v) Incumbents to the posts of Librarian (Selection Grade) who have not completed the requirementof three years in the pre-revised pay scale of Rs. 12000-183000, for being eligible to be placed inthe higher Pay band of Rs.37400-67000, shall be placed at an appropriate stage with AcademicGrade pay of Rs.8000 till they complete three years of service as Librarian (Selection Grade).

Note - 1 A Govt. employee, who is on leave on 01 .01 .2006 and is entitled to leave salary, will be entitledto pay in the revised pay structure from 01 .01 .2006 or from the date of option for the revisedpay structure from the date of actual effect of revised emoluments. Similar benefits are availablewhen a Govt. employee is on study leave on 01.01.2006.


Note-2. A Govt. employee under suspension, will continue to draw the subsistence allowance based onexisting scale of pay and his/her pay in revised pay structure will be subject to the final order ofthe pending disciplinary proceedings.

Note-3. Where in the Fixation of pay under sub-para (I) of para 4, the pay of a Govt. employee, whoimmediately before 01 .01.2006, was drawing more pay in the existing scale than another govt.employee junior to him/her in the same cadre/position, gets fixed in the revised pay band at astage lower than that of such junior, his/her pay will be stepped up to the same stage in therevised pay band as that of the junior.

Note-4. In case where a senior Govt. employee promoted or upgraded to a higher post before 01.01.2006,draws less pay in the revised pay structure than his/her junior who is promoted/upgraded to thehigher post on or after 01 .01 .2006, the pay in the pay band of senior Govt. employee shall bestepped up to an amount equal to the pay in the pay band as fixed for his/her junior in that higherpost. The stepping up will be done by the Govt. with effect from the date of promotion/up gradationof the junior Govt. employee subject to the fulfillment of the following conditions:-

(i) Both the junior & the senior employee should belong to the same cadre and the post in whichthey have been promoted should be identical in the same cadre;

(ii) The pre-revised scale of pay and the revised grade pay of the lower and higher post in which theyare entitled to draw pay should be identical;

(iii) The senior Govt. employee at the time of promotion should have been drawing equal or more paythan the junior;

(iv) If even in the lower post, the junior officer was drawing more pay in the pre revised scale than thesenior by virtue of any advance increment granted to him/her the provisions of this Note will notbe applicable to step up to the pay of the senior employee.

5. Incentives for Ph.D / M.Tech or other higher qualification:(i) At the time of the recruitment as Asst. Professor, five and two non-compounded advance increments

shall be admissible to those of the Science/Humanities faculties who hold Ph.D and M.Phil degreesrespectively; and to those of the technical faculties who hold Ph.D and M.E/M.Tech degree respectivelyin the relevant discipline by a University following the process of registration, course-work and externalevaluation as prescribed by U.G.C.

(ii) Three non-compounded increments will be admissible if such Ph.D in the relevant branch/discipline isobtained while in service and one advance non-compounded increment will be adlmissible for theteachers who acquire M.Phil/M.Tech dlegree in the relevant branch from a recognized university whilein service.

(iii) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing clauses those who have already availed the benefits ofadvance increments for possessing Ph.D/M.Tech at the entry level under the earlier scheme shall notbe entitled to the benefit of advance increment under this scheme.

(iv) In case of Librarian the same benefit will be admissible as mentioned in the above points.

6. Fixation of pay in revised pay structure of employees appointed as fresh recruit on or after 01.01.2006:(1) The pay of direct recruit to a particular post carrying a specific grade pay will be fixed on or after

01.01.2006, at the entry level pay in the respective pay band.(2) The provisions of sub-para (1) will also be applied in the case of those recruited between the 1st day of

January 2006, and the date of issuance of this order:

7. Rate of increment in the revised pay structure:(I) The rate of increment in the revised pay structure will be 3 percent (3%) of the sum of the pay in the

pay band and Academic Grade Pay applicable and the resulting amount will be rounded off to the nextmuItipIe of 10.

(2) The amount of increment will be added to the revised pay in the pay band.(3) ln the case of the calculation of increment under the revised pay structure, paise should be ignored,

but any amount of a rupee or more should be rounded off to next multiple of 10.


Ilustration : If the amount of increment Rs. 830.70, the amount be rounded off to Rs. 830; if the amount ofincrement comes to Rs. 831 and above the same would be rounded off to Rs. 840. The amount of increment willbe added to the existing pay in the pay band.

8. Date of next increment in the revised pay structure:(1) There will be a uniform date of annual increment, viz. 1st July of every year. Employees completing 6

months and above in the revised pay structure as on 1st of July will be eligible to be granted the increment.The first increment after Fixation of pay on 0 1.01 .2006 in the revised pay structure will be granted on01 .07.2006 for those employees for whom the date of next increment was between 1st July, 2006 to1st January, 2007.Provided that in case of Govt. employees who had been drawing maximum of the existing scale morethan a year as on the 1st day of January, 2006, the next increment in the unrevised pay scale will beallowed on 1st day of January, 2006. Thereafter, the provisions stated in the above para would apply.

(2) In case of Govt. employees who earned their last increment between the period commencing from the2nd day of January. 2005 and ending on the 1st day of January. 2006, after fixation of their pay underrevised pay structure, such Govt. employees should get next increment on the 1st day of July, 2006.

(3) In case of Govt. employees whose date of next increment fell due on the 1st day of January, 2006, aftergranting an increment in the pre-revised pay scale as on the 1st day of January, 2006, their pay in therevised pay structure should be fixed on the 1

st day of Janunary, 2006 and such Govt. employeesshould get their next increment on day of July, 2006.

(4) In case of a Govt. employee who opts to come under revised pay structure after any date between the1st January, 2006 and 1st day of July, 2006, his/her pay in the revised pay structure should be fixedaccordingly. but his/her date of next increment should be 1st day of July, 2007.

9. Fixation of pay on promotion/placement to new designations on or after 01.01.2006 :(1) In case of promotion/placement/up gradation from one academic grade pay to another in the revised

pay structure on or after 01.01.2006 the fixation of pay of a Govt. employee will be made in the followingmanner:(a) One increment equal to three per centage (3%) of some of the pay in the pay band and the existing

acadlemic grade pay will be computed and rounded off to the next multiple of 10;(b) The amount arrived at (a) will be added to the existing pay in the pay band and in case the pay in

the pay band after addling the increment is less than the minimum of higher pay band to whichpromotion/placement is taking place, pay in the pay band will be stepped up to such minimum:

(c) After the pay in the pay band determined academic grade pay corresponding to the promotional/up gradational post will be granted in addition to this pay in the pay band.

(2) In case where promotion/upgradation involves change in the pay band in subsequent order followingAICTE regulations/guidelines, the same procedure as mentioned in (a), (b) & (c) of sub-para (I) of para9 for Fixation of pay will be applicable.

Note 1.- In case the Govt. employee opts to get his/her pay fixed from his/her date of next increment,then, on the date of promotion/ upgradation. pay in the pay band will continue to be unchangedbut academic grade pay of the higher post will be granted. Further re-fixation will be done on thedate of his/her next increment i.e. 1st day of July. On that date, such a Govt. employee will begranted two (2) increments; one annual increment and the second on account of promotion/upgradlatioil. While computing these two increments, basic pay prior to the date of promotionand academic grade pay corresponding to such pay in the pay band will be taken into account.After allowing such increments, academic grade pay of the higher post will be allowed.

Note 2.- In case the Govt. employee opts his/her pay fixed in the higher grade from the date of his/herpromotion/ up gradation, he/she will get his/her first increment in the higher grade on the next1st July, if he/she was promoted /upgraded between the period from the 2nd July to 1st January.However, if he/she was promoted/ upgraded between period commencing from the 2nd Januaryand ending on the 30th June of a particular year, he/she will get his/her increment on the 1st Julyof the next year.


10. Allowances :Allowances viz. Dearness Allowance (DA), House Rent Allowance (HRA) & Medical Allowance (MA) as

admissible to other State Govt. Employees from time to time will also be applicable to the incumbent mentionedin the subject.

These are as follows.

(1) House Rent Allowance:

With effect from 1st April, 2009, the House Rent Allowance admissible to an employee will be 15% of his/her revised basic pay i.e. aggregate of the pay in pay band plus academic grade pay in the revised paystructure subject to a maximum of Rs. 6000/- per month. The ceiling of House Rent Allowance drawn byhusband and wife together will also be raised to Rs. 6000/- per month.

The existing terms and conditions of drawl of House Rent Allowance by employees living in their own houseor in a rental house will continue to apply.Subject to continuance of the existing terms and conditions regulating drawal of House Rent Allowance bythe employees provided with accommodation owned/hired by the Authority and recovery of fixed rent/license fee from time, the following conditions will be there with effect from 1st April, 2009 in respect ofsuch categories of employees.

(a) When an official accommodation being in habitable condition in all respect and such accommodlationis earmarked for holder of a particular post without any rent, the holder will not be entitled to HouseRent Allowance for living elsewhere.

(b) In case the employee pays rent or license fee for such official accommodation, his reimbursement inthe form of House Rent Allowance will be limited to actual license fee/rent paid or 15% of the paywhichever is lower.

(2) Dearness Allowance:

Dearness allowance payable with effect from 1st April, 2008 will be at the following rate:-

Period from which payable Rate of Dearness Allowance per month on revised basic pay

01.04.2008 to 31.05.2008 2%01.06.2008to 31.10.2008 6%01.11.2008 to 28.02.2009 9%01.03.2009 to 31.03.2009 12%01.04.2009 to 30.11.2009 16%01.12.2009 to 31.03.2010 22%01.04.2010 onwards 27%

(3) Medical Allowance:

Medical allowances will be payable @ Rs. 300/- per month with effect from 1st April, 2009.

11. Other miscellaneous matters

This Order regarding revised pay will be effective from 1st January, 2006 notionally. For the present, thepayment in the revised pay structure will be made w.e.f. 1st April, 2009.The modlalities of payment of arrears for the period prior to 1st April. 2009 and other related matterstowards the implementation of the revision of pay, that have not been dealt with in the preceding paras,would be considered separately and notified in due course after obtaining suitable inputs/guidelines/regulations from the AICTE/Govt. of India.

12. The Interim Relief as allowed in terms of this Department’s Order No. 588-Edn(T)/10M — 36/09 dated24.09.2009 will continue till the drawal of salary starts as per this revision and the same already drawn is tobe adjusted against pay and allowances payable in terms of this Order.


13. This Order issues with the concurrence of the Finance Department, Govt. of West Bengal vide their U.O.No. 1317 Group P (Pay) dated 23.07.2010.

14. Any difficulty which may arise in implementing the provisions relating to the revision of pay structures asindicated in this order may be brought to the notice of the State Govt. for decision.

15. AnomaliesAnomalies, if any, in the implementation of the scheme may be brought to the notice of the Higher EducationDepartment for clarification.

16. The Accountant General, West Bengal is being informed.

By order of the Governor

Sd/- S.C.TewaryPrincipal Secretary

No. 434/1 (30)-Edn(T) Dated: Kolkata, the 26th July, 2010

Copy along with the copies of annexure forwarded to the:

01) Finance Department of this Govt.02) Acountant General (A & B), West Bengal.03) Pay & Accounts Officer (1), 81/2/2, phears Lane, Kolkata — 12.04) Pay & Accounts Office (2), p-1, Hyde Lane, Kolkata — 73.05) Budget Branch of this Department, Kolkata.06) Director of Treasuries, Stephen House, 4, B.13.D. Bag (East), Kolkata — 01.07) Secretary, Public Service Commission, West Bengal.08) P. S. to Hon’ble MLC, Higher Education Department, Govt. of West Bengal.09) P. A. to Principal Secretary, Higher Education Department, Govt. of West Bengal.10) Principal/Officer-in-Charge .......................................................................................................................11) Treasury officer12) Computer Cell of this Department.13) Guard File.

Joint Secretary


SCHEDULE—I

FOR OF OPTION

*(i) I ..............................................................................hereby elect the revised pay structure with effect from 1st January, 2006.

* (i) I................................................................................hereby elect the revised pay structure with effect from1st January, 2006 and exercise my promotional fixation with effect from

*(ii) I hereby elect to continue on the existing scale of pay of my post mentioned below until :(a) the date ot my next increment(b) the date of my subsequent increment raising my pay to Rs ............. in the existing scale(c) the date of my promotion/placement (CAS) to .....................................................................................

in the existing scale of pay of Rs ................................Declaration - I hereby undertake to refund to the Government any amount which may be drawn by me in

excess of what is admissible to me on account of erroneous fixation of pay in the revised paystructure as soon as the fact of such excess drawal comes I brought to my notice.

............................................................. Signature: ............................................................Countersignature of the Head of theInstitution / Office

Name: ________________________________

________________________________

Designation: _____________________________

_____________________________

Institution / Office in which employedDate ___________________ _______________________________________Station ______________________ _______________________________________

*To be scored out, if not applicable

N.B. :- Principals will submit their option to the D.T.E., W.B. Professors, Assistant Professors and Lecturerswill submit their options to the Principals who will send copies thereof to the D.T.E., W.B.


Government of West BengalHigher Education Department, University Branch

Bikash Bhavan, 6th Floor, Salt Lake, Kolkata — 700 091

NOTIFICATION

No. 416-Edn(U) Dated:27.07.2010 —In exercise of the power conferred by sub-section (2) of section1 of the Presidency University Act, 2010 (West Ben. Act XIII of 2010), the Governor is pleased hereby toappoint the 27th day of July, 2010 as the date on which sections 2,6 and 56 of the said Act shall come intoforce.


Principal Secretary to theGovt. of West Bengal.

Government of West BengalHigher Education Department Appointment Branch

Bikash Bhavan, Salt Lake, Kolkata — 700 091

No. 31/JS/(SKG)/H.E.Date 12.8.2010

From: Shri Sridhar Kumar Ghosh, Joint Secretary

To. Prof. Amitava ChatterjeeActing Principal, Erstwhile Presidency College, Kolkata, West Bengal

Sub : Enactment of Presidency University Act 2010 transitory provision.

Sir,You may be aware that the Presidency University Act, 2010 has been enacted and has come into force

w.e.f 7th July, 2010 with its publication in the Gazette. Subsequently, a notification under sub-section 2 ofsection 1 of the Act has been brought out bringing section 1 and section 55 of the Act into force w.e.f7.07.2010 as per provision of sub section 2 of section 1. Section 26 and 56 of the Act have come into forcew.e.f. 7.07.2010.

A per clause (b) of sub-section 8 of section 55, all sanctioned posts of the College shall stand transferredto the University and all Government employees employed in the College will continue to function underthe University in their existing capacities till such time the posts are actually filled up by the University orthe incumbents are posted elsewhere by appropriate Government Orders or Notifications to be issuedfrom time to time. The said Government employees during their tenure in the University will continue toenjoy the same pay and allowances upon the same terms and conditions of service with the same rightsand privileges as to pension, gratuity, provident fund, savings cum group insurance scheme and othermatters as they would enjoy as the State Government employees.

Consequently, all the employees of the erstwhile college will continue to function in the University intheir respective existing capacities until further orders by the competent authority.

This is for your information and necessary action.For your ready reference a copy of the Presidency University Act, 2010 and a copy of the Notification

no.416-Edn(U) dated 27.07.2010 are enclosed herewith.

Your faithfully,(Sridhar Kumar Ghosh)Joint Secretary

Encl : As above



BIKASH BHAVAN, SALT LAKE, KOLKATA-91

No.522-Edn(A)/10M-55/10 Dated, Kolkata the 14th June, 2010.

NOTIFICATION

The Governor is pleased to christen the newly constructed Govt. College at Himachal Vihar, Matigara, Siliguri,Dist.-Darjeeling as Siliguri Govt. College with immediate effect.

By Order of the Governor,Sd/- S. Ghosh

Joint Secretary

No.522/1(25) Edn (A) Dated, Kolkata the l4th June, 2010.

Copy forwarded for information and necessary action to the1) Accountant General (A&E), West Bengal. 2) Director of Public Instruction, West Bengal.3) Dy. Regional Education Officer, Jalpaiguri Divn., Jalpaiguri.4) Finance Deptt. of this Govt. 5) Public Service Commission, West Bengal.6) Treasury Officer, Siliguri. 7) The Registrar,______________________ University.8) P.S. to M.I.C. of this Deptt. 9) P.A. to the Principal Secretary of this Deptt.

10) Computer Cell of this Deptt. 11) Guard file.

Joint Secretary


BIKASH BHAVAN, SALT LAKE, KOLKATA—700091

No. 767–Edn(A)/ 10M–55/10 Dated, Kolkata the 20th August,2010

NOTIFICATION

In continuation to this Department’s Notification No. 522-Edn(A) dated 14.6.10, the Governor is pleased tochristen the newly constructed Goverrrnent College at Himachal Vihar, Matigara, Siliguri, Dist-Darjeeling asACHARYA PRAFULLA CHANDRA ROY GOVERNMENT COLLEGE.

By Order of the GovernorSd/.- S.K. GhoshJoint Secretary.

No. 767/1(25)-Edn(A) Dated, Kolkata. the 20th August. 2010.

Copy forwarded for irformation and necessary action to the:1) Accountant General (A&E), West Bengal. 2) Director of Public Instruction, West Bengal.3) Dy. Regional Education Officer, Jalpaiguri Divn., Jalpaiguri.4) Finance Deptt. of this Govt. 5) Public Service Commission, West Bengal.6) Treasury Officer, Siliguri. 7) The Registrar,______________________ University.8) P.S. to M.I.C. of this Deptt. 9) P.A. to the Principal Secretary of this Deptt.

10) Computer Cell of this Deptt. 11) Guard file.

Assistant Secretary.


GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGALHigher Education Department

Bikash Bhawan, Salt Lake,Kolkata — 700 091

No.689-Edn(CS) Dated Kolkata, the 26th August, 2010

ORDER

From: M. Chakravarty,Joint Secretary to theGovernment of West Bengal

To: Director of Public Instruction,Government of West Bengal,Higher Education Department

The issue of revision of service conditions of Part Time Teachers etc. is under consideration of the Government.In view of that, it is felt necessary that no fresh engagement of Part Time Teachers and any other category ofpersons should be done by the authorities of Government & Government Aided Colleges without prior permissionof the Government.

Hence, it is ordered that no fresh engagement of Part Time Teachers and any other category of personsshould be done by the authorities of Government & Government Aided Colleges without prior permission of theGovernment.

This Order takes effect immediately.

(M. Chakravarty)Joint Secretary




No.856-Edn(A)/ 10M-104/09. Kolkata, the 9th Sept. 2010.

Memorandum

Subject Revision of Pension/Family Pension of pre 01.01.06 Pensioners/Family Pensioners in respect ofTeaching Staff including Librarians, Physical Instructors/ Instructresses and equivalent cadres ofState Govt. Colleges.

In continuation to this Department Memo No. 196-Edn(A) dt.22.03.2010 on the above subject, theundersigned is directed by order of the Governor to say that the Governor has been pleased to decide that thePensioners/Family pensioners under the purview of this Department Memo No. 196-Edn(A) dt.22.03.2010 areentitled to Medical Relief @ Rs.300/- per month w.e.f. 0 1.04.2009.

This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Department vide their U.O.No.583-F(Pen) dt.31.08.2010.Sd/- S.K. GhoshJoint Secretary

No.856/ 1(15)-Edn.(A). Kolkata, the 9th Sept. 2010.

Copy forwarded for information and necessary action to:

01. The Accountant General (A&E), West Bengal, Treasury Buildings, Kolkata-01;02. The Finance Department, Pension Cell, Govt. of West Bengal;03. The Director of Public Instruction, West Bengal.

He is requested to take necessary steps for wide circulation of this order.04. The Kolkata Pay & Accounts Officer-I, 81/2/2, Phears Lane, Kolkata- 12;05. The Kolkata Pay & Accounts Officer-II, P-1, Hyde Lane, Kolkata-73;96. The Director of Treasuries, New India Assurance Building, 4, Lyons Range, 2nd & 3rd floor, Kolkata-01;

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

07. The Joint Secretary, C.S. Branch, Higher Education Department;08. The Joint Secretary, Technical Branch, Higher Education Department;09. The Director of Technical Education, West Bengal;10. The Jt. Director of Public Instruction (Accounts and Pension), West Bengal;11. The P.S. to the MIC of this Department;12. The P.A. to the Pr. Secretary of this Department;13. The Officer on Special Duty, Appointment Branch, Higher Education Department;14. Computer Cell of this Department;15. Guard file.

Assistant Secretary

Nikhil/10




No.857-Edn(A)/ l0M-104/09. Kolkata, the 9th Sept. 2010.

Memorandum

Subject Revision of Pension / Family Pension of post 01.01.06 Pension / Family Pensioners in respectof Teaching Staff including Librarian, Physical Instructors / Instructresses and equivalent cadresof State Govt. Colleges.

In continuation to this Department Memo No. 195- Edn(A) dt. 22.03.10 on the above subject, the undersignedis directed by order of the Governor to say that the Governor has been pleased to decide that the Pensioners /Family pensioners who retired/will retire on or after 01.01.06 under the purview of this Department Memo No.195-Edn(A) dt.22.03.20 10 are entitled to Medical Relief @ Rs.300/- per month w.e.f. 01.04.2009.

This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Department vide their U.O.No.583-F(Pen) dt.31.08.2010.

Sd/- S.K. GhoshJoint Secretary,

No.857/ 1(15)-Edn.(A). Kolkata, the 9th Sept. 2010.

Copy forwarded for information and necessary action to01. The Accountant General (A&E), West Bengal, Treasury Buildings, Kolkata -01;02. The Finance Department, Pension Cell, Govt. of West Bengal;03. The Director of Public Instruction, West Benga1.04. He is requested to take necessary steps for wide, circulation of this order.04. The Kolkala Pay & Accounts Officer-I, 81/2/2, Phears Lane, Kolkata-1205. The Kolkata Pay & Accounts Officer-II, P-1, Hyde Lane, Kolkata-1206. The Director of Treasuries, New India Assurance Building, 4, Lyons Range, 2nd & 3rd floor, Kolkata-01;

He is requested to take necessary steps for circulation of Treasuries/ Sub-Treasuries under his control.07. The Joint Secretary, C.S. Branch, Higher Education Department;08. The Joint Secretary, Technical Branch, Higher Education Department;09. The Director of Technical Education, West Bengal;10. The Jt. Director of Public Instruction (Accounts and Pension), West Bengal;11. The P. S. to the MIC of this Department;12. The P. A. to the Pr. Secretary of this Department;13. The Officer on Special Duty, Appointment Branch, Higher Education Department;14. Computer Cell of this Department;15. Guard file.

Assistant Secretary




No.858-Edn(A)/10M-104/09. Kolkata, the 9th Sept. 2010.

Memorandum

Subject Revision of Pension / Family Pension of post 01.01.06 Pension / Family Pensioners in respectof Teaching Staff including Librarian, Physical Instructors / Instructresses and equivalent cadresof State Govt. Colleges.

In continuation to this Department Memo No. 196- Edn(A) dt. 22.03.10 on the above subject, the undersignedis directed by order of the Governor to say that the Governor has been pleased to decide that the provisions aslaid down in para 4.3 of this Department Memo No. 196.-Edn(A) dt. 22.03.20 10 will be implemented as per thetable annexed with this Memorandum.

This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Department vide their U.O.No.583-F(Pen) dt.31.08.2010.

Sd/- S.K. GhoshJoint Secretary,

No.858/1(15)-Edn.(A). Kolkata, the 9th Sept. 2010.

Copy with the copy of the annexure forwarded for information and necessary action to :01. The Accountant General (A&E), West Bengal, Treasury Buildings, Kolkata -01;02. The Finance Department, Pension Cell, Govt. of West Bengal;03. The Director of Public Instruction, West Benga1.

He is requested to take necessary steps for wide, circulation of this order.04. The Kolkala Pay & Accounts Officer-I, 81/2/2, Phears Lane, Kolkata-12;05. The Kolkata Pay & Accounts Officer-II, P-1, Hyde Lane, Kolkata-12;06. The Director of Treasuries, New India Assurance Building, 4, Lyons Range, 2nd & 3rd floor, Kolkata-01;

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

07. The Joint Secretary, C.S. Branch, Higher Education Department;08. The Joint Secretary, Technical Branch, Higher Education Department;09. The Director of Technical Education, West Bengal;10. The Jt. Director of Public Instruction (Accounts and Pension), West Bengal;11. The P. S. to the MIC of this Department;12. The P. A. to the Pr. Secretary of this Department;13. The Officer on Special Duty, Appointment Branch, Higher Education Department;14. Computer Cell of this Department;15. Guard file.

Assistant Secretary


Annexure to the G.O. No. 858-Edn. (A) dt. 09.09.2010Revised Pension based on Revised Pay structure (Pay Bands & Academic Grade Pay) w.e.f. 01.01.2006 forposts carrying in present scale in respect of Teaching staff inculding Readers, Professors, Principals, LibrariansPhysical Instructors/Instructresses and equivalent cards of State Government Colleges as per U.G.C. Scale ofPay w.e.f. 01.01.1973, 01.01 1986, 01.01.1996, & corresponding Pay Bands and Academic Grade Pays w.e.f.01.01.2006 vide G.O. No. 864-Edn(A) dt. 28.08.2009 and No. 865-Edn (A) dt. 28.08.2009 (Read withSubsequent G.O. No. 195-Edn.(A) dt. 22..03.2010 and No. 196-Edn(A). dt. 22.03.2010)

Pay scale Pay scale Pay Scale Revised Pay Corresponding Pension = 50% Famaily(UGC) w.e.f (UGC) w.ef (UGC) w.e.f Structure AGP (Academic of sum of Pension = 30%01.01.1973 01.01.1986 01.01.1996 (UGG) Pay Grade Pay) minimu m Sum of

Band + AGP PB+AGP minimumw.ef. PB + AGP

01.01.2006

1. 500-900 1740-60-2700 5500-175- Govt. order(for -75-3000 9000 yet toexisting - beissued.demonstrat- No. UGC recom-or mendationincumbents) as yet

2. 700-1600 2200-75-2800 8000-275- 15600-39100 6000 10800 6400-100-4000 13500

3. 700-1600 3000-100- 10000-325- 15600-39100 7000 11300 67803500-125- 15200

5000

4. 700-1600 3700-125- 12000-420 15600-39100 8000 11800 70804950-150- 18300 (Retired

5700.(Retired with Basicwith the Basic Pay of

Pay upto Rs.12840)Rs. 4200)

5. 700-1600/ 3700-125- 12000-420- 37400-67000 9000 23200 139201200-1900 4950-150- 18300 (Retired

5700(Retired with Basicwith Basic Pay of

Payof Rs.4325 Rs.13260and above) above)

6. 1500-2500 4500-150- 16400-450- 37400-67000 10000 23700 142205700-200- 20900-500-

7300 22400

Sd/-Assistant Secretary


GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGALHigher Education Department, Technical Branch

Bikash Bhavan, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700 091

No. 518 Edn(T) I (T) -10M-36/09 Dated: Kolkata, the 13th September, 2010

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

To : The Director of Technical Education, West BengalSub: Revision of Pay Scales of Principals, Teachers, and Librarians of 6 (six) Government Engineering and

Technological Colleges in West Bengal with effect from 01.01.2006 and issuance of fitment tables.

In continuation of this Department’s earlier GO. no. 434 Edn(T) / (T) — 10M —36/09 dated 26.07.2010 andrefer to his memo no. 412 (T)/CS dated 13.08.2010, on the subject noted above, the undersigned is directed tostate that the Governor has now been pleased to issue the following fitment tables (from Table-I to Table-6)regarding pay fixation of Principals, Teachers, and Librarians of 6 (six) Government Engineering and TechnologicalColleges of this state with effect from 01.01.2006

Fitment Tables

Table-I

1. Incumbent : Assistant Professor (formerly Lecturer)2. Incumbent : Librarian

Pre-revised Scale Revised Pay Band + AGPRs. 8000-275-13500 Rs. 15600-39 100 + AGP 6000

Pre-revised Basic Pay Revised Pay

Pay in the PayBand Academic Grade Pay Revised Basic Pay

8000 15600 6000 216008275 15600 6000 216008550 15910 6000 219108825 16420 6000 224209100 16930 6000 229309375 17440 6000 234409650 17950 6000 239509925 18470 6000 24470

10200 18980 6000 2498010475 19490 6000 2549010750 20000 6000 2600011025 20510 6000 2651011300 21020 6000 2702011575 21530 6000 2753011850 22050 6000 2805012125 22560 6000 2856012400 23070 6000 2907012675 23580 6000 2958012950 24090 6000 3009013225 24600 6000 3060013500 25110 6000 3111013775 25630 6000 3163014050 26140 6000 3214014325 26650 6000 32650

a


Table-2

1. Incumbent Assistant Professor [formerly Lecturer (Sr. Scale)]2. Incumbent: Librarian (Sr. Scale)

Pre-revised Scale Revised Pay Band + AGPRs. 10000-325-15 200 Rs. 15600-39100 + AGP 7000


Pay in the Pay Band Academic Grade Pay Revised Basic Pay

10000 18600 7000 2560010325 19210 7000 2621010650 19810 7000 2681010975 20420 7000 2742011300 21020 7000 2802011625 21630 7000 2863011950 22230 7000 2923012275 22840 7000 2984012600 23440 7000 3044012925 24050 7000 3105013250 24650 7000 3165013575 25250 7000 3225013900 25860 7000 3286014225 26460 7000 3346014550 27070 7000 3407014875 27670 7000 3528015200 28280 7000 3467015525 28880 7000 3588015850 29490 7000 3649016175 30090 7000 37090


Table-3

1. Incumbent : Lecturer’ (Sl. Grade) with less than three years of service in the pre-revised scale ofRs. 12,000-18,300.

2. Incumbent : Librarian (S1. Grade) with less than three years of service in the pre-revised scale ofRs. 12,000-18,300.

Pre-revised Scale Revised Pay Band + AGPRs. 12000-420-18300 Rs. 15600-39100 + AGP 8000



12000 22320 8000 3032012420 23110 8000 3111012840 23890 8000 3189013260 24670 8000 3267013680 25450 8000 3345014100 26230 8000 3423014520 27010 8000 3501014940 27790 8000 3~79O15360 · 28570 8000 3657015780 29360 8000 3736016200 30140 8000 3814016620 30920 8000 3892017040 31700 8000 3970017460 32480 8000 4048017880 34040 8000 4204018300 34080 8000 4204218720 34820 8000 4282019140 35610 8000 4361019560 36390 8000 44390


Table-4

1. Incumbent: Associate Professor [formerly Lecturer (SI. Grade)/Assistant Professoi with 3 years of servicein the pre-revised scale of Rs. 12,000-18,300].

2. Incumbent : Librarian (SI. Grade) completed 3 years of service in the pre-revised scale of Rs. 12,000-18,300.

Pre-revised Scale Revised Pay Band + AGPRs. 12,000-420-18,300 Rs. 37,400-67,000 + AGP 9,000



13260 37400 9000 4640013680 37400 9000 4640014100 37400 9000 4640014520 37400 9000 4640014940 38530 9000 4753Q15360 38530 9000 4753015780 39690 9000 4869016200 39690 9000 4869016620 40890 9000 4989017040 40890 9000 4989017460 42120 9000 5112017880 42120 9000 5112018300 43390 9000 5Z39018720 43390 9000 5239019140 44700 9000 5370019560 44700 9000 53700

TabIe-5

1. Incumbent : Professor

Pre-revised Scale Revised Pay Band + AGPRs. 16,400-450-20,900-500-22400 Rs. 37,400-67,000 + AGP 10,000



16400 40890 10000 5089016850 40890 10000 508901.7300 42120 10000 5212017750 42120 10000 5212018200 43390 10000 5339018650 43390 10000 5339019100 44700 10000 5470019550 44700 10000 5470020000 46050 10000 5605020450 46050 10000 5605020900 47440 10000 5744021400 47440 10000 5744021900 48870 10000 5887022400 48870 10000 5887022900 50340 10000 6034023400 30340 10000 6034023900 51860 10000 61860


Table — 6

1. Incumbent : Principal

Pre-revised Scale Revised Pa Band + AGPRs. 18,400-500-22,400 Rs. 37,400-67,000+AGP 10000



18400 44700 10000 5470018900 46050 10000 5605019400 46050 10000 5605019900 47440 10000 5744020400 47440 10000 5744020900 48870 10000 5887021400 48870 10000 5887021900 50340 10000 6034022400 51850 10000 61850

The terms and conditions will remain same as indicated in this Department’s earlier G.O. no. 434 Edn(T) /(T)— 10M — 36/09 dated 26.07.2010.

This order issues with the concurrence of the Finance Department, Govt. of West Bengal vide their U.O. No.2131 Group-P (Pay) dated 08.09.2010.


SdI-. S. C. TewaryPrincipal Secretary

No. 518/1(35) —Edn(T) Dated; Kolkata, the 13th September, 2010

Copy forwarded for information and necessary action to :01) The Princiapal Accountant General (A & E), West Bengal.02) Finance Department Gr. P (Pay) of this Govt.03) Pay & Accounts Officer (1), 81/2/2, phears Lane, Kolkata — 12.04) Pay & Accounts Office (2), p-I, Hyde Lane, Kolkata - 73.05) Director of Treasuries, Stephen House, 4, B.B.D. Bag (East), Kolkata— 01.06) Secretary, Public Service Commission, West Bengal.07) P.S. to Hon’ble MIC, Higher Education Department, Govt. of West Bengal.08) P.A. to Principal Secretary, Higher Education Department, Govt. of West Bengal.09) Budget Branch of this Department Kolkata.10) Officer-in-charge, Govt. College of Engg. and Ceramic Technology,

73, A. C. Banerjee Lane, Kolkata 70001011) Treasury Officer.12) Computer Cell of this Department.13) Guard File.

Joint Secretary


ToThe ChairmanUniversity Grants CommissionNew Delhi

Sir,

Greetings!We wish to place on record our appreciation of the efforts taken by the UGC to address some of our concerns

while formulating the UGC Regulations- 2010.Elsewhere we have given a note on our views on the Regulations and we will be submitting a detailed note

on the Regulations after our National Executive meets in August.Meanwhile we request you to address some of our immediate concerns arising out of the Regulations.We wish to point out the Regulations should be prospective not only in letter and spirit but also in effect.In section 6.3.1 it is stated ‘Further in order to avoid any hardships candidates who fulfill all other criteria

mentioned in these Regulations as on 31-12-2008 and till the date on which these Regulations is notified can beconsidered for promotion from the date on or after 31-12-2008 on which they fulfill these eligibility conditionsprovided as mentioned above’.

The UGC itself has communicated that pending issue of the new Regulations,teachers could be awarded CASas per the old Regulations i.e. the Regulations-2000.

Some State Governments/Universities/ Colleges have not implemented that letter because of bureacraticdelays. Teachers cannot be penalised for that.

Moreover different yardsticks cannot be employed for different teachers working in different colleges/universities/ States.

Hence we request you to clarify that all CAS including upto that of Associate Professors which were duebetween 31-12-2008 and 27-06-2010 be awarded as per the old Regulations without insisting on the PBAS andinterviews.

In the MHRD Notification dated 31-12-2008, which forms part of the UGC Regulations -2010, Section 2(a)(xi) states that ‘Readers/ Lecturers (Selection Grade) in service at present shall continue to be designated asLecturer (Selection Grade) or Readers as the case may be, until they are placed in the Pay Band of 37,400 – 67000and redesignated as Associate Professor in the manner as described in (x) above. It is clear that Readers/ Lecturers(SG) as on 31-12-2008 would be automatically placed in the Pay Band IV as and when they completed 3 years.This clause is differentiated from clause (xii) which speaks about Assistant Professors completing 3 years of teachingin the AGP of Rs 8000 shall be eligible subject to other conditions that may be prescribed by the UGC’.

But in some States section 2(a) (xi) has not been implemented as they are confusing in Section 2(a) (xii) .Hence such of those teachers who were Readers/ Lecturers (SG) on 31-12-2008 and who completed 3 years

before 27-06-2010 should be redesignated as Associate Professors and placed in the Pay Band IV without insistingon PBAS and interviews.

Similarly we welcome the changes incorporated in the eligibility conditions about PhD in the ‘concerned/allied/relevant disciplines’. But in page 71 section 9.1 of the Regulations with regard to incentives for PhD, it isstill PhD awarded in a relevant discipline.

Hence We request you to issue necessary clarification that incentive increments could be awarded for PhD inthe concerned/allied/relevant disciplines.

We request you to pass early orders so that teachers may not be put to any hardships.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Asok Barman James WilliamGeneral Secretary President

AIFUCTO NEWS 183

ToThe Chairman,University Grants CommissionNew Delhi

Sir,

Greetings!We welcome the issue of the UGC Regulations-2010.We are happy to note that some of the concerns of the teachers excpressed to you and the drafting committee

in person and through our various memoranda have been addressed. We hope it would benefit the teachers ifthe regulations are implemented in letter and spirit.

We thank you for taking steps to accommodate some of our view points.We request that the Regulations should be implemented prospectively and the CAS that were due between

31-12-2008 and the date of the Regulations should be awarded as per the old Regulations.Nevertheless, we wish to point out, as we have been pointing out on many an occasion, that quantifying

academic performance will never improve quality in teaching, research and extension. We believe thataccountabilty of teachers cannot be ensured by imposing a set of rigid and arbitrary norms. The basic contradictionsin the draft Regulations measuring academic quality in terms of quantity, academic inputs in terms of monetaryinput, of privileging the global over the local and of equating standards with standardisation have not beenaddressed in the Regulations.

Similarly we have pointed out the necessity to appreciate the difference between the selection and screeningprocesses. Selection is required only where elimination is an imperative, where the number of available posts isless than the number of candidates contesting for the post, as in the case of direct recruitment. But the Regulationsstipulate that even for the teachers would have to appear before the selection committee. It is CAS aquired aftera period of service and after fulfilling certain conditions. What is required is just a screening to find out if ateacher has fulfilled certain academic and resaerch conditions. Imposing a selection for CAS may be utilised byunscrupulous managements to deny rather than award Associate professorship to eligible teachers.

Similarly we had pointed out the anomaly of a junior drawing higher salary than the seniors with respect toPhD holders. An Associate Professor who aquires PhD after 1-1-2006 will get 3 increments more than those whogot PhD before 1-1-2006. the UGC Regulations-2000 rectified this anomaly by providing for 2 advance incrementswhenever a PhD holder moved into the selection grade. The UGC Regulations-2010 should also provide for sucha thing to rectify such an anomaly.

We welcome the applicability of the Regulations to all institutions including the minority institutions. But in5.1.4 (a) 5 and other related sections dealing with minority educational institutions it is stated that in such collegesfor recruitment 2 subject experts will be nominated by the chairperson of the College out of the panel of 5names, preferably from minority communities recommended by the Vice-Chancellor from the list of subjectexperts approved by the relevant statutory body of the college.

This would negate the spirit of the Regulations and would amount to authorising the Chairperson himself tonominate his men. So this section should be amended to read as ‘ experts approved by the relevant statutorybody of the University.

Similarly we welcome the changes incorporated in the eligibility conditions about PhD in the ‘concerned/allied/relevant disciplines’. But in page 71 section 9.1 of the Regulations with regard to incentives for PhD, it isstill PhD awarded in a relevant discipline. Hence we request you to issue necessary clarification that incentiveincrements could be awarded for PhD in the concerned/allied/relevant disciplines.

We request you to give due consideration to the above and suitably amend the Regulations so that theycould be inclusive and bring about real quality enhancement in higher education.

Thank you.Yours sincerely,

Asok Barman James WilliamGeneral Secretary President


CIRCULAR NO: 06/2009-2010 10.07.2010

Dear Friends,

On behalf of AIFUCTO Secretariat, I would like to extend warmest congratulations to all of you for remainingvigilant , united and focused which has yielded dividends yet again in the form of the early release of UGCRegulations. We can justifiably take credit for being one of the largest teacher organizations in the world ,ifnot the largest.

We informed all of you about the notification of Regulations by UGC on 28th July,2010. We thank UGC andMHRD for incorporating a number of changes suggested by the AIFUCTO. At the same time we also note thatcertain aspects need attention and revision. The NEC meeting to be held on 14th August, 2010 at Dehradun willdiscuss all such issues.As immediate response to the notification our President and General Secretary submittedmemorandum to the Chairman, UGC on 1st July, 2010. (Pl.find copies in our website).A detailed analysis will bemade by the NEC meeting and further feedback will be submitted to the UGC. All affiliates are requested to sendtheir feedback as early as possible to the General secretary.

Delhi Program

After the last NEC meeting, General Secretary was camping in Delhi for most of the days and held regularmeetings with MHRD and UGC officials and urged them to make changes in the Draft Regulation to make theminclusive The President and General Secretary held meetings with Prof.S.Thorat Chairman, Dr. N.A.Kazmi, Secretary,and Dr.Ashok Thakur, Joint Secretary (Pay Scales), UGC on 1st July, 2010 to seek clarifications and urge them toensure that all states implement pay scales and follow the Regulations. They submitted a memorandumhighlighting AIFUCTO’s stand on certain clauses and sought changes therein.

NEWS OF AFFILIATES

West Bengal Government College Teachers’ Association ( WBGCTA )

The 38th Annual Conference of WBGCTA was held on 23 – 24 January 2010 in the Derozio Hall of PresidencyCollege, Kolkata. On the first day a seminar entitled “ Inclusive Education : Challenges Ahead in Higher Education“ was organized jointly by Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata and WBGCTA. Dr Abid Hussain, Chancellor,English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad presented the key note address. Professor TapanRaychoudhuri, Professor Mrinmoy Bhattacharyya and Professor K. K. Theckedath spoke on the topic. Health-check-up camp, book exhibition and a cultural programme were held on this occasion.

On 24th January 2010, the Conference was declared open by Professor Ujjwal Kumar Basu, a retired teacherof the Government College. The General Secretary of the WBGCTA presented his annual report before the house,attended by around 1100 members. In his report he specially pointed out that the recent initiative taken by theGovernment of West Bengal to change the status of Presidency College, the oldest government college of thestate, to a Unitary University is unilateral, unwanted and illogical. Such a move militates against the spirit of theconstitution of WBGCTA, which calls for uniform and collateral development of all government colleges in thestate. The chief guest Professor Sudarsan Raychaudhuri, Honourable Minister in Charge, Higher Education, WestBengal, was present and spoke on the issues of Higher Education in the state vis-à-vis the country.

Professor Asok Barman, General Secretary, AIFUCTO, attended the conference and spoke in detail on thelatest developments regarding the progress of the pay revision process. Prof Barman also referred to the identicalsituation faced by the Tamil Nadu Government College Teachers’ Association and the strong stand of AIFUCTOagainst the issue of granting unitary/deemed university status to any college.

In the Business Session, the Conference unanimously resolved to adhere to its earlier resolution of forminga State University comprising all the Government Colleges of the state and to buildup pressure on the Governmentof West Bengal to reject the ill-conceived Bill on Presidency University. The conference was presided over bySri Harendranath Bhattacharya, the President of the Association.

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Bihar and Jharkhand

The State associations and federations of Bihar and Jharkhand have been organizing various programs forthe implementation of revised pay scales. The AIFUCTO leadership is in constant touch with the State leaders forguidance and help. The General Secretary requested MHRD and UGC to intervene and find an early solution tothe stalemate.

Maharashtra

The problem of teachers appointed without NET/SLET by the State Govt. is still unresolved. The StateFederation adopted various programs and held series of discussions with the state Government,MHRD and UGCto ensure justice to the teachers. The AIFUCTO leadership also demanded that the teachers be regularized lestthey suffer for no fault of their own. To drive home this point a Dharna program is going to be held in Delhi on2nd August at the behest of the MFUCTO.

Assam

The 57th Conference of Assam College Teachers’ Association was held in Nowgaon College,Nowgaon on25,26,27, June,2010 with great success.Thousands of delegates participated in the Conference.The Conferencewas addressed by Sri Tarun Gogoi,Chief Minister , Sri Gautam Bora,Education Minister, Sri Rafikul Hussain,ForestMinister.

Prof. Sudhangshu Bhusan,Professor,NUEPA presented a brilliant lecture on the proposed changes in thestructure of higher education in the Seminar Session. The Delegate Session was inaugurated by Prof.AsokBarman,General Secretary,AIFUCTO.He highlighted the role of AIFUCTO in respect of pay scales and regulations.He thanked the State leadership for their continued support to the national teachers’ movement and invited theteachers to participate in even larger numbers. He hoped that all ACTA demands will be accepted by the stateGovt.

Prof.Naren Changmai was reelected President and Prof.Biswajyoti Bhuiyan was elected GeneralSecretary,ACTA. We extend hearty congratulations to them.

Delhi Convention of National level teachers organizations, employees organizations and studentsorganisations

A convention was held in New Delhi on 2nd July,2010 to oppose the proposed bills in higher educationinitiated by the Govt.of India.The participants were national level teachers organizations from primary to universitylevels, employees organizations and students federations. The convention discussed the dangers inherent in theBills and decided to hold a seminar in New Delhi on 12th August, 2010.The detailed program will be published inour website.

FISE News

Prof.B.Vijay Kumar,Gen Secretary,FISE has informed that FISE Conference will be held in Bangladesh in thelast week of December,2010.We hope a large contingent from AIFUCTO will participate in the Conference.

Prof.Vijay Kumar is now abroad attending series of meetings in Moscow, Geneva and Paris-UNESCO.Congratulations to Prof.Vijay Kumar.

NOTICE FOR NEC MEETINGA meeting of the NEC, AIFUCTO will be held at 11 A.M on 14.08.2010 at Dehradun to discuss the following

agenda.1. Reporting by the General Secretary.2. UGC Regulations3. Bills presented in Parliament4. Organisational matters.5. Miscellaneous


All NEC members are requested to attend..Contact:Dr.V.C.Pandey-Gen Sec FUUCTA, Res:0135-2656499,Mob:09412934646Dr.D.K.Tiagi-Gen Sec GRUTA,Res:0135-2748039,Mob:0994123194Dr.O.P.Kulshrestha-Ex-PresidentFUUCTA,Res:0135-2746811,Mob:09412876288

Greetings

General Secretary

AIFUCTO NEC ResolutionsDated :14-08-2010

The NEC of the All India Federation of University and College Teachers’ Organisations and Govt. EmployeesFederations have decided to go on strike on 7th September against Price Rise, disinvestment of Public Sector anddemanding food security, social security and Assured Pension for those who have joined service after 01-01-2004. The NEC requests all its associates to participate in suitable forms of struggle including strike and to focusalso their resistance to Privatisation. Centralisation and Commercialisation of Education and demand strengtheningof Public education.

The NEC resolves to be part of the National Forum in defence of Education, a movement of teachers, students,parents, popular science movements, other organisations working in the field of education and the youthmovements to protest against the anti-people educational policies of the Govt. of India. The NEC calls upon theaffiliates to involve all sections of people in this movement to make it a broad-based movement and to participatein state/ district/ institution level conventions in the following months culminating in a massive March to Parliamenton 2nd December 2010. AIFUCTO calls upon all sections of people to resist the neo-liberal, neo-colonial educationalpolicies pursued by the Govt. of India and to make the action programmes of the National Forum in Defence ofEducation a success.

Communication From General Secretary

Dear Friend,Greetings!

Please note that the Academic Conference of AIFUCTO will be held at Jalgaon, Maharashtra on 19,20 and 21November, 2010 — hosted by NMUCTO

Kindly book your journey tickets.Please follow the announcement in our website www.aifucto.org to be uploaded soon for further details.

Visit our website for the NEC Resolutions regarding our program on 7th September, 2010 and 2nd December,2010 and the letter to the Chairman, UGC regarding the Regulations, 2010.

All the best

Asok Barman

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