Examination / Admission Remuneration Enhacement : Letter to VC

ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION, ALIGARH

S. Mustafa Zaidi Hony. Secretary

Teaching Staff Club, AMU, Aligarh, 202002 0571-3203520(O); 0571-2720011 (R); 09411802364 (M) Email: secretaryamuta@gmail.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AMUTeachers Blog: http://www.secretaryamuta.blogspot.com

June 7, 2011

The Vice-Chancellor

A.M.U., Aligarh

            Subject: Enhancement of examination/admission related remuneration

Sir,

           

            Your satisfaction with the conduct of the examinations and admission work is more than apparent from the press releases of the University and the letters sent to the Secretary, MHRD. However, we would like to point out that this became possible only because the AMUTA in its resolution dated May 11, 2011 had requested teachers “to participate wholeheartedly in the conduct of all admissions and examinations related work” (we had resolved to participate in the larger interest of the University, despite the fact that you had not met us that day).

In this backdrop many members of AMUTA have drawn attention to the meagre amount of remuneration paid to invigilators / Head invigilators / Asstt. Superintendents and Superintendents of examination centres. This problem becomes more acute when we find that those teachers who are asked to invigilate outside AMU are paid at much higher rates, i.e., Rs.700/- vs Rs.130/- for invigilation work and Rs.1500/- vs Rs.175/- for Superintendent of Examinations.  Those privileged enough to be sent outside Aligarh, not only get air-tickets + D.A. but also reimbursement of incidentals and higher rates of invigilation/superintendence of examinations.

            You may also recall that when examination related remuneration was enhanced some years back, some anomalies were created, for example the minimum rate of checking of answer-books/viva-voce remain the same they were earlier for certain courses, similarly the increased rates were not uniform, at some places the rates increased three times whereas in other examinations the rate was much lower. This happened because there was no rational method used for enhancement, I hope that you would give due consideration to this request for enhancement so that all teachers may get the same rates of remuneration for the same kind of work.

            With regards,

Sincerely yours,

(S. Mustafa Zaidi)