Ahmedabad: Premier business school
IIM-Ahmedabad has constituted a three-member panel to look
into the pay structure recommendations for faculty members.
"We have constituted a three-member panel to examine the
pay structure recommended by the government for the faculty
members. The panel is expected to submit its report by next
week," IIM-A Director Samir Barua said today.
The IIM-A faculty's grudge against the new pay structure,
notified last month, is the percentage increase in their
salary is lesser than that granted to their counterparts
in other government educational institutions.
"IIMs, once projected to be centre of excellence for
attracting world renowned faculty, seem to have lost their
position with time, as the difference between them and local
national institutions has disappeared in this (pay)
structure," a senior professor of IIM-A said.
"The other issue is about fresh limit on faculty
development fund imposed by the government," he added.
"The fresh limit suggested by the government for
faculty development is lower than what the IIMs are offering
currently," another professor at IIM-A said.
Faculty members at IIMs are reimbursed from this fund
for undertaking academic projects, he added.
"The panel comprising three professors shall also
study the draft memorandum prepared by the IIM-Calcutta on pay
structure disparities, and suggest what could be IIM-A's
response to it," a senior IIM-A professor said, preferring
anonymity.
"IIM-Calcutta was the first one to circulate a draft
highlighting the pay structure disparities and submit it to
the Union HRD Ministry," he added.
A copy of the draft has been received by IIM-A for
consideration. Based on the draft highlights, a feedback from
the IIM-A faculty will be taken, the professor said.
Due to absence of a central forum we could neither
voice our concern about pay revision nor protest, as done by
the faculty of IITs, he said, adding "Like IIM-C, we are
likely to submit our views to the government on the issue."
So far there has been a silent agitation across all
the IIMs, the professor said.
As per the Govardhan Mehta Committee recommendations
on pay hike for faculty members of IITs and IIMs, assistant
professors have been put in third pay band, while both
associate professor and professors have been kept in the
fourth pay band, sources at IIM-A said.
Bureau Report
First Published: Wednesday, September 02, 2009, 22:48