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Notifications: Specification of Degrees and other matters

Annexure - I

0No:F.1-22/97-U.1
Government of India
Ministry of Human Resource Development
(Department of Education)

New Delhi, the 27 July, 1998.
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To,
The Education Secretaries of all States/Union Territories,

Subject: Revision of pay scales of teachers in Universities and Colleges following the
revision of pay scales of Central Government employees on the recommendations
of Fifth Central Pay Commission.

Madam/Sir,
I am directed to say that in fulfilment of the constitutional responsibility for
coordination, determination and maintenance of standards in higher education, the Central
Government and the University Grants Commission (UGC) have taken, from time to time,
several measures. As a part of these efforts, the Central Government has revised the pay
scales of teachers in Central Universities and Colleges thereunder in order to attract and
retain talent in the teaching profession A copy of the-letter addressed to the UGC giving
details of the revised scales of pay and other provisions of the Scheme of revision of pay
scales is enclosed.

2. In discharging its constitutional responsibility, the Central Government hag decided to
continue to provide financial assistance to the State Governments who wish to adopt
and implement the Scheme of revision of pay scales subject to the following terms and
conditions:-
(a) The Central Government will provide financial assistance to the State Governments
which have opted for these revised pay scales to the extent of 80% of the additional
expenditure involved in the implementation of the revision:
(b) The State Government will meet the remaining 200/6 of the expenditure from
their own sources-
(d) The financial assistance, indicated above, would be provided for the period from
1.1.1996t0 31.3.2000
(e) The entire liability on account of revision of pay scales, etc., of university and
college teachers would be taken over by the State government w.e.f. 1.4.2000.
(f) The Central assistance would be restricted to revision of pay scales in respect of
only- those posts which were in existence and filled up on 1.1 1996.
3 The State Government, aner taking local conditions into consideration, may also decide in
their discretion, to introduce scales of pay different from those mentioned in the Scheme,
and may give effect to the revised scales of pay from January l, 1996, or a later date. In such
cases, the details of the modifications proposed either to the scales of pay or the date from
which the Scheme is to be implemented should be furnished to the Government of India
for its approval and, subject to the approval being accorded to the modifications, Central
assistance on the same terms and conditions as indicated above will be available to the
State Government for implementation of the Scheme with- such modifications, provided
that the modified scales of pay are not higher than those approved under the Scheme.

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