The Chronicle News Blog: India’s Cabinet Approves Huge Increase in Faculty Salaries
New Delhi — In a bid to combat faculty shortages of up to 50 percent at some universities, India’s cabinet, which includes the government’s top ministers, has approved a hefty pay raise for the 500,000 academics who teach in the public-university system.
The increases, which average 70 percent, could end up nearly tripling some faculty members’ salaries. If approved, as expected, by Parliament in the coming weeks, the raises will be retroactive to January 1, 2006. Professors will see minimum monthly salaries increase from 16,400 rupees, or $344, to 37,400 rupees, or $786.
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