AIIMS meet on Tuesday to discuss pay for faculty

With 17 faculty members quitting in the last three years — including five in the last six months — AIIMS recommended that the govt revise its pay scale

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AIIMS) administration has called a meeting on Tuesday in connection with revised pay scales for its faculty members. (File Photo)

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) administration has called a meeting on Tuesday in connection with revised pay scales for its faculty members, a senior AIIMS official said. The meeting comes days after The Indian Express reported that the Union government had questioned the previous hike under the Sixth Central Pay Commission (CPC), and asked if the money paid to the faculty was based on the “UGC scale”.

Senior officials said the administration will discuss the “release of interim relief for its faculty” — a temporary arrangement — before the revised pay scale is finalised by the government. “The competent authority has desired to hold a meeting on Tuesday… at 2 pm… All members are requested to kindly make it convenient to attend the meeting…,” the order said. The meeting will be chaired by Professor Balram Airan, Dean (Academic), and will include other members such as R K Sudhanshu, Deputy Director (Administration), Raj Kumar, Senior Financial Advisor and representative of the Faculty Association of AIIMS.

With 17 faculty members quitting in the last three years — including five in the last six months — AIIMS recommended that the government revise its pay scale and implement the Seventh CPC. A committee set up by AIIMS in February highlighted “unattractive pay” as the reason behind the exits.

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Kaunain Sheriff M is an award-winning investigative journalist and the National Health Editor at The Indian Express. He is the author of Johnson & Johnson Files: The Indian Secrets of a Global Giant, an investigation into one of the world’s most powerful pharmaceutical companies. With over a decade of experience, Kaunain brings deep expertise in three areas of investigative journalism: law, health, and data. He currently leads The Indian Express newsroom’s in-depth coverage of health. His work has earned some of the most prestigious honours in journalism, including the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Award, and the Mumbai Press Club’s Red Ink Award. Kaunain has also collaborated on major global investigations. He was part of the Implant Files project with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which exposed malpractices in the medical device industry across the world. He also contributed to an international investigation that uncovered how a Chinese big-data firm was monitoring thousands of prominent Indian individuals and institutions in real time. Over the years, he has reported on several high-profile criminal trials, including the Hashimpura massacre, the 2G spectrum scam, and the coal block allocation case. Within The Indian Express, he has been honoured three times with the Indian Express Excellence Award for his investigations—on the anti-Sikh riots, the Vyapam exam scam, and the abuse of the National Security Act in Uttar Pradesh. ... Read More

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