Gaya: Teaching and non-teaching employees of Magadh University will get revised pay as per the recommendations of the seventh pay commission from April 2020. The necessary instructions have been passed in view of this and the university officials have been asked to submit a salary bill in the revised scale, according to the VC Prof Rajendra Prasad.
The payment of the salary will be done within the next few days, said the VC.
The decision of the revised pay scale will benefit more than 1700 employees including around 500 teachers working in the two dozen post-graduate depts, 19 constituent and one govt-funded minority college.
On average, the salaries of beneficiary employees will increase by more than 20 pc. VC said that pay fixation of the university employees in the new scale has been done.
Welcoming the decision to implement revised pay scale, Magadh University Post Graduate Teachers Association President Sushil Kumar thanked the VC. He said that while the university fraternity was busy in developing alternate teaching modes, salary increases are a much-needed morale booster.
When asked about the progress of the e-learning programme introduced by the varsity, the VC said that the program has been taken in all seriousness and the results is encouraging.
The VC said that the caveat that there was no substitute for classroom teaching on account of direct interaction between the teacher and the taught. The problem was more serious in subjects requiring lab work and classical subjects like Sanskrit, Pali, Persian and to some extent Hindi and Urdu too.
There are about 3 lakh students enrolled and for them all of them, online exam was not the option, said Prof Prasad.
VC said that, he personally favoured computer-readable OMR system to fast track the conduct of examination and result announcement.
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