Early Times Report
Udhampur, Mar 17: The Monthly Meeting of the District Udhampur unit of All J&K Plus 2 Lecturers' Forum, was held here on Sunday.
The meeting was chaired by Ashok Sharma, the District President of the Forum. Deliberating on the issue of Assured Career Progession (ACP). They said that in the 5th and 6th Pay Commission, the running pay scale of Doctors in the Health and Medical Education Department, ISM Doctors,Veterinary Surgeons and lecturers was respectively 8000-275-13500 and 9300--34800+5400. In the 7th Pay Commission, all these four categories of officers have been placed in the same running scale of 52700-166700 (level 9). But while the allopathic Doctors, ISM Doctors/Medical Officers and Veterinary Surgeons have been given the benefit of ACP, the lecturers have been deprived of this benefit. The result is that the officers who have been accorded Time Bound Promotion got (15600-39100+6600 (level 11), 15600-39100 +7600 (level 12) and 37400-67000+8700 (level 13) respectively after 10, 15 and 20 yrs of their service, the lecturers continue to stagnate in the same level of 9300-34800+5400 (prerevised) for years together. They rued that despite assurances by the successive governments to end this discrimination, nothing has been done. Similarly the Time Bound Promotion has also been given to the Assistant Professors in the Higher Education Department and KAS Officers but denied only to the Plus 2Cadre.Consequently, the bright minds are leaving this profession for better career prospects in other Departments. Speaking on the occasion, Ashok Sharma thanked the members for discussing various issues and demands and urged the Government to take notice of them.
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