IIM-A panel on pay structure to submit report to HRD ministry

A three-member panel, formed at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), which looked into 'pay structure disparities' for faculty members has prepared its report and the same is likely to be submitted to Union HRD Ministry.

"We have prepared the draft report suggesting views of IIM-A faculty on pay structure recommendations notified by the government in August. We have submitted the report to IIM-A director," a member of the panel said.

"The report is now likely to be sent to the Union HRD Ministry by the director," the member said.

According to the faculty members, the new pay structure notified in August this year is designed in such a way that the increase in their salary is lesser than that granted to their counterparts in other educational institutions.

The other issue is about the fresh limit imposed on faculty development fund, a senior IIM-A professor said.

"The report was prepared in the backdrop of draft memorandum prepared by the IIM-Calcutta on pay structure disparities," the professor said, adding, IIM-Calcutta was the first to submit a draft highlighting the disparities in pay structure to the Ministry.

So far there has been a silent agitation across all the IIMs, but now we shall be registering our views on the issue, another faculty member said.