Chandigarh: The Chandigarh administration said that teachers who did not take the NET exam in Chandigarh are not getting an increment. Due to this, teachers are angry. 14 teachers applied for an increment in 2015 from the Higher Education Department.
For this, the increment has been given several times to the candidates who did not take the exam. The teachers demand that there should not be two rules in the same city; rather, the teachers of seven private colleges in the city have appealed to Home Minister Amit Shah regarding the implementation of the intervention of UGC regulations of the central pattern.
This case of 14 teachers of private colleges in the city has been pending with the Higher Education Department since 2015. The department says that only those teachers who clear UGC NET get the benefit of the increment. Dr. Ashish Kapoor, Professor of DAV College, Sector-10, says that the Higher Education Department should not keep the matter hanging. The matter of the increment of PhD holders has been pending with the department for many years.
According to the UGC guidelines, those who have cleared NET and PhD holders can take advantage of the increment. A committee was also formed by the administration in this regard, but its meeting was not held after 2015. There will be hundreds of such teachers in the government and private colleges of the city who will be PhD holders and who have not taken the NET exam.
A new notification was issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs on March 29, 2022, on the Union Territory of Chandigarh Employees’ Terms and Conditions of Service 2022.