The UGC pay recommendations!

The latest pay revision recommendations by the Chaddha committee was a pleasant surprise for many. The news has been greeted with enthusiasm as well as skepticism. The enthusiasm comes from the fact that the Government has realized the need to keep the talented people in the education sector and prevent migration to the industrial sector. It is a sad thing that in our country teaching is associated with charity. Why don't the people in general as well as the administrators understand the fact that even a teacher may wish to live in the manner in which an I.A.S. or I.P.S. official lives. S/he may want to own luxury cars and palatial houses. Teachers, in the present times, can not survive on fees in the form of rice and pulses and vegetables. It would be worth waiting and watching if the recommendations given by the Chaddha committee are accepted or not! That will actually show whether the Government wants the country to progress or to rot!
The other part of these recommendations is the evaluation of teachers. A very good suggestion, I must say. But the question is whether the teachers will accept this. If done in good faith evaluations can help improve classroom teaching. But there is another side to this picture. A University did ask the students to evaluate the teachers. But the administration shared this only once with the teachers. After that the teachers never came to know their performance. Apart from this the students need to be trained to be impartial. They will have to be taught to be fearless and forthright and not be guided by things like a teacher taking them for films or giving them a treat or just doling out money for a quick snack or ice cream. The entire evaluation process will be a success only if it is conducted impartially and the people involved in it are responsible and just.
On the whole the committee has come out with some good recommendations but there are a few which still need to be thought over.

Comments

Anonymous said…
one of the major problems of the educational sector is the shortage of teachers and of course its going to continue unless the government discontinues the policy of indifference to paychecks meant for teachers. further i will also contend for the accountability and transparency of university administration towards students. a hot topic for debate and indeed for reforms!
Anonymous said…
well shantanu with due respect to your comment i feel the shortage of academicians that we talk about will perpetuate to eternity as long as we do not stop this second grade treatment to the professionals of this field...
when everything is being commercialised in today's era and we see the advancements and the benefits of this also around us then how long can this fact be ignored and denied that we need similar developments in field of academics.
PreeOccupied said…
Smriti, I guess you were a year junior to me in SJC and then in PWC. I am so proud to read about you in Prof. Dutt's Blog. Keep up your good work.
Unknown said…
smriti I do agree to what you have written,new scale is really needed but assessment cant be done by students unless trained in right direction.Kind of politics within institutions will always overshadow it.So accountability has to come from within ,all we can say respectable hike is our right.

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