Petition Submitted to UGC under RTI Act 2010 (Part I)

To
The Chairman,
University Grants Commission (UGC),
Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg,
New Delhi - 110 002.
Sir,
Sub: Requesting Further Information on the UGC Regulations 2010
Ref: http://www.ugc.ac.in/policy/revised_finalugcregulationfinal10.pdf
I have gone through the new regulation of your esteemed commission for recruitment and promotion of teachers in the universities and colleges. As a citizen of India, I would like to seek the following specific information regarding the new regulation. May, I request you to kindly supply information to my email ID in soft form?
I. Minimum Qualification and Experience for Teaching Positions (Direct and CAS)
The new regulation of your esteemed commission has widened the distance (gap) between the assistant professor and associate professor positions in terms of the minimum number of years service required for appointment (in the direct recruitment and CAS promotion) as well in the pay scale. During the last two periods of pay commissions there was equi-distance between the adjacent levels. On the other hand, in both the terms the distance between associate professor and professor positions have been drastically reduced. Virtually there is no gap between them in the pay scale.
Until now, under the CAS the distance between a lecturer and reader was 9-11 years while under the new regime it will be 12-14 years. But the distance between the reader and professor was 8 years. Likewise in the direct recruitment, the minimum number of years experience required to become an associate professor has been increased from 5 to 8 while the same for professorship remains at 10 years. But the number of years experience required for an associate professor to become a professor has got decreased by 2 years.
In this connection, I would like to seek information from you in the form of answer to the following questions.
• What led the UGC to reduce the distance (gap) in salary as well as number of years experience between Associate Professors and Professors?
• Why the distance between assistant professor and associate professor positions has been increased? (In salary as well as number of year’s experience).
• Why there is increased waiting period for the assistant professors with less salary, lower prestige, and power in the higher education system under the lower tier of the higher education.
• Ph.D. which remained an essential qualification for promotion to the position of Reader in the previous two pay periods has been removed and the selection grade lecturers were promoted automatically to associate professorship (which is more less equal to professorship) without undergoing any assessment process or interview under the new regulation. If assessment and interview are necessary for the people below why not it is applied to those who are already above. Kindly give information on the rationale for such policy change.