After 7th Pay Commission bonanza, teachers need not research to get promotion

An official announcement to this effect would be made soon. The HRD ministry wants teachers to be engaged in student activity instead.

Research will soon not be mandatory for college teachers at the under graduate level for promotions, the government which recently announced a pay hike for teachers under the 7th Pay Commission said. Instead teachers will have to engage themselves more in community activities involving students.

The HRD ministry is working on a plan to do away with the mandatory research and accordingly make changes in the Academic Performance Index and also make it optional.

No research needed for promotion

Currently, college teachers are also required to do research activity for their promotions, just like university professors. But we must understand that both these are completely different category of teachers. A college teacher should be mainly engaged in teaching. When we made research compulsory, research stopped completely. Conducting research just for the sake is taking down the quality of research," said HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar.

Official announcement soon

An official announcement to this effect would be made soon. The HRD ministry wants teachers to be engaged in student activity instead. We will make one community activity or student activity mandatory and teachers will be given their scores on basis of that," he added. Since college teachers have to spend more time in teaching and tutorials, this leaves them with little or no time to do research. Whereas university teachers who are supposed to teach the post-graduate students or guide MPhil and PhD scholars have less teaching time and are able to engage more in research, he also said.

Seventh Pay Commission soon

Union Minister Prakash Javedekar said at the National Convention on Higher Education Perpectives in India that teachers would soon get the benefits of the 7th Pay Commission. He also said adhocism in teacher appointment in the universities, especially in Delhi University, would end within a year.

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