College Teachers, Staff To Get Massive Pay Hike
New Delhi

With the Cabinet focusing on University Grants Commission (UGC)’s recommendations in connection with salaries, teachers and staff working in colleges, universities and institutions run by the Centre and state governments are set to get hefty increments.

According to reports, nearly 8,00,000 teachers and staff working in colleges, universities and institutions run by the Centre and state governments will get a pay hike in the range of 22-28%.

The Cabinet is set to take up a UGC panel's recommendation in this regard this month itself, reports Hindustan Times.

Highlights
College professors and staff will get a pay hike in the range of 22-28%.

The last pay hike for teachers was implemented in 2006.

Universities and colleges had threatened to go on strike over the delay in implementation of the seventh pay commission.