Indian higher education: 40% of college teachers temporary, quality of learning badly hit

By Subodh Varma. There are four members in the economics faculty of Khaira College near Balasore in Odisha. Two of them get salaries of over Rs 1 lakh, one gets around Rs 45,000 and the fourth just Rs 11,139. All of them take 30 to 33 lectures a month.
Although a UGC-recognized college, only the two top-earners get UGC prescribed pay scales. One is getting the state scale, and the lowest earning lecturer is under a contract covered by a 'block grant'. In many other Odisha colleges, there are lecturers working for as little as Rs 5,000 per month, says Pravas Chandra Mohapatra, a professor at Khaira. More...