Friends,
Dr. R. Gujral, Regional Director, RC Delhi-3, in response to his query, has been informed by ACD that he would be retiring from service on 31st July 2009, on attaining 62 years of age. Tomorrow it will be another senior colleague, then another.
This proves beyond doubt, that the decision taken by the BOM regarding parity of service conditions has not beeen implemented. If even this doesn't wake us up, probably nothing will.
With the kind permission of Dr. Gujral, we are reproducing the content of the letter received by him for the information of all our colleagues.
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Sub : Clarification about age of superannuation
With reference to his letter no. IG/RCD-3/Pers 28th April,2009 on the subject noted above, Dr. Rajender Gujral, Regional Director, RC Delhi-III, is informed that though, in principal (sic), the academics of the University are governed by the same Recruitment Rules, Career Advancement Scheme and Service Conditions, as that of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor, these conditions are to be finalized by a Committee, which was constituted by the Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor. The Committee was notified on 18.02.2009. The Committee consists of Prof. Parvin Sinclair, PVC (In Chair ), Dr, V.V. Ready, Prof. Kapil Kumar, Prof. M.S.S. Raju and Dr. Massod Parveez. The first meeting of the Committee was held on 24.02.2009 and in that meeting it was decided that Dr. V.V. Ready and Dr. Massod Parveez. Members will work out the aspects of implementation of the Notification for Academics.
The Notification issued by the University on 28.01.2009 says at point 6 as under:-
“The Assistant Regional Directors (ARD), the Regional Directors (RD) and the Senior Regional Directors on the Regional Services Division (RSD) and the corresponding levels of Academics in other Divisions will be governed by the same Recruitment Rules, Career Advancement Scheme and service conditions as those of Assistant Professors, Associate Professors and Professors. A Committee consisting of representatives from each of the different categories will be constituted by the Vice-Chancellor to finalize the recommendations on re-designation, revised Recruitment Rules, Career Advancement Scheme and the service conditions for Teachers.”
It may also be mentioned that the Ordinance on designating certain academic positions in the University as teaching positions has not yet received the consent of the Visitor.
Under the circumstances as on the age of superannuation of Teachers is 65 years and Academics is 62 years. Dr. Gujral would therefore. Reach the age of superannuation 31.07.2009 after attaining the age of 62 years.
(N.V. Narasimham)
Director (AC)
Dr. Rajender Gujral
Regional Director, RC Delhi-III
CC Director, RSD
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So, though in principle he is supposed to retire at the age of 65, in practice he will retire at the age of 62. Reason? The Committee did not submit its recommendation? In any case, the Ccommittee would have submitted its recommendations within the overall framework of the Ordinance. Guidelines had to be evolved for CAS, not for age of retirement. And if the Committee does not submit its recommendations, should the issue be allowed to die?
We invite your reactions on this.
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Majority of us have contributed with our maximum input (including the pink of our youth and the best crative and productive years ) to build up and consolidate the biggest academic and support Division in the country by being in RSD.I am sure no one can dispute this important fact.
As per one of the circular from ACD,we the academics of the University are governed by the same Recruitment Rules, Career Advancement Scheme and Service Conditions, as that of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor.This very fact has already been okayed in the past by the designated statutory bodies of university.
Now,it is beyond our comprehension to find the reasons for delay in its implementation.If the letters from a very small section from our collegues to MHRD is in the way ; we have to underatand that in a democratic country like ours we would never get centpercent agreement to on any important issues.
Moreover,today IGNOU(as an university)is known by the academic efforts made by the academics of RSD in the remote parts of the country.These efforts include all such works which facilitates the teaching learning activities of our learners.
We have already seen the fallouts in the past.Lets resort to the democratic rights to resolve the rightfull,bonafide long pending demands.
We have to cosider the follwing;
1.Should the decisions of BOM be kept in abeyance indefinately and we be made to suffer because a committee set up more than three months ago has not submitted its report? Was the commitee given any deadline to complete its task? Have any steps been taken to ensure that the committee does its work in a reasonable time? In any case the committee is only supposed to draft revised service rules. The decision of BOM of 14-01-2009 makes it clear that service conditions of RDs/ARDs etc. and other equivalent academics will be same as 'teachers'. This implies that at least from the date of decision of BOM our service conditions are same as those of teachers revised or unrevised. Committee report is irrelevant in this case. In any case there are no rules to be framed as far as age of superannuation is concerened. It should be 65 years.
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