GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY

OF

HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 760

TO BE ANSWERED ON 23.07.2018

New Education Policy 760.

DR. SHASHI THAROOR:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Ministry is aware that currently a large number of professors, researchers and other faculty staff are leaving their positions in central universities for private institutions as they receive greater remuneration in these privately funded institutions; (b) if so, under the New Education Policy, the Ministry is considering increasing the remuneration being offered to qualified faculty members to make them competitive with their private sector counterparts; (c) if so, the details thereof; and (d) if not, the reasons therefor?

ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

(Dr. SATYA PAL SINGH) (a) to (d): Government has not conducted any survey in this regard. However, Government has increased salary and other incentives for faculty in the Seventh Central Pay Commission. *****