Revert non-qualified school, get well extra wage paid, Kerala govt tells IHRD 

Express News Service

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a transfer that will have an effect on the service and pay situations of 137 school members in engineering faculties underneath the Institute of Human Resource Development (IHRD), the state authorities has directed that the school who don’t meet the {qualifications} prescribed by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and University Grants Commission (UGC) be reverted to their earlier service.

The extra wage and different emoluments they’ve obtained have to be recovered from them.

According to a supply in IHRD, the transfer would result in the reversion of many school members to the mum or dad establishments similar to polytechnics. “It would also cause a cut in monthly salary in the range of Rs 50,000 to Rs 1.25 lakh. Most of these faculty members were initially appointed on a contract basis and regularised in the engineering colleges after a prolonged agitation and through political influence,” stated the supply. 

The IHRD is an autonomous establishment underneath the state authorities that runs 9 engineering faculties together with different technical establishments. In a current route, the extra chief secretary (Higher Education) laid down the plan of action to be adopted on such school members. TNIE has accessed a replica of the communication despatched by the federal government to the IHRD director on this regard. 

In the case of engineering school appointed by switch from non-engineering faculties, solely their earlier service as lecturer/assistant lecturer in polytechnic faculties after buying the engineering diploma can be thought of for putting them in senior/choice grade lecturer in AICTE scheme, the federal government has clarified. 

In the case of engineering school school not having AICTE-prescribed {qualifications}, the federal government has ordered that they be reverted to “other streams” with impact from their date of entry within the engineering faculties. “The excess amount drawn by them on account of their posting in engineering college service should be recovered,” the federal government route stated. 

Meanwhile, the worst hit can be the class of school in non-engineering topics. These school members had been transferred and posted from non-engineering faculties throughout 2007-2010 underneath UGC scale with fixation advantages from 1996. The authorities has clarified that such school members are eligible for UGC scale solely from the date of entry within the faculties or from the date of buying NET/PhD and never from 1996, because the UGC scheme was applied in IHRD engineering faculties solely after 2006.

Earlier, a CAG report had discovered that 961 school members in engineering faculties throughout the state had been ‘non-qualified’ as per AICTE norms. Recently, the Directorate of Technical Education started the method of changing 93 such school members in authorities engineering faculties with certified individuals. The APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU) had additionally began the method of changing such ‘non-qualified’ school in engineering faculties within the aided, self-financing and government-controlled self-financing sectors.

Excess pay to be recovered in month-to-month installments

The authorities has directed that extra wage and different emoluments paid to the school members needs to be recovered in “monthly installments”. IHRD director P Suresh Kumar was unavailable for remark.