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The Congress-affiliated Kerala Private College Teachers’ Association (KPCTA) has expressed concerns implicit immoderate caller administrative actions affecting assemblage teachers, including the insistence connected similarity scale checks for promotions and betterment procedures related to MPhil and PhD beforehand increments.
V.M. Chacko, KPCTA functionary and Senate member, University of Calicut (CU), pointed retired successful a merchandise connected Sunday (February 1) that the University Grants Commission Regulations, 2018, which govern promotions nether the Career Advancement Scheme, bash not mandate similarity scale checks for promotion from Associate Professor to Professor. Referring to the applicable provisions of the regulations and consequent Government Orders (GOs) and assemblage orders, the relation said that determination was nary ineligible ground for introducing further conditions. The KPCTA alleged that specified directions had resulted successful unnecessary delays successful clearing promotion files successful affiliated colleges.
The relation besides expressed beardown absorption to the betterment procedures initiated against teachers who had received beforehand increments for MPhil and PhD qualifications. The KPCTA leaders said that existing GOs intelligibly specify that immoderate excess amount, if astatine all, tin lone beryllium adjusted against dearness allowance revision arrears oregon promotion arrears, and not done measures specified arsenic withholding wage oregon yearly increments. Mr. Chacko has submitted petitions to the Director of Collegiate Education, the Deputy Director of Collegiate Education, Kozhikode, and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calicut.
