Recommendations of the committee constituted to examine various ...

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
NEW DELHI
Sub:
Recommendations of the committee constituted to examine various aspects in
the context of IIPA w.r.t. UGC Regulations dated 30-06-2010.
A. The Chairman, IIPA had constituted a Committee comprising:-
1. Prof. S. Saroja* Chairperson,
Vice-President, IIPA
2. Prof. S.P. Verma
Hony. Treasurer
3. Prof. N.P. Singh
4. Shri M.C. Gupta
5. Director Member-Secretary
(with the stipulation that the Committee could co-opt an Executive Council Member
who is a Vice-Chancellor).
(* The first meeting of the Committee was held on 12.10.2010 however, Prof. (Mrs.)
Saroja could not attend the meeting due to indisposition and Prof. S.P. Verma chaired the
meeting. Another meeting of the Committee was held on 11 February, 2011 and Prof. S.
Saroja again could not attend the meeting. Prof. N.P. Singh, Chairman, Standing Committee
chaired the meeting. Besides him Dr. S.L. Goel, Hony. Treasurer, Prof. S.P. Verma and two
special invitees namely Prof. B.M. Sharma and Dr. N. Rajalakshmi attended the meeting.
Shri M.C. Gupta due to pre-occupation, Shri B.C. Mathur (special invitee) being unwell and
Director, IIPA being out of country could not attend the meeting).
to examine various aspects in the context of the IIPA with reference to the Ministry of
HRD notifications dated 31 December, 2008 and UGC notification dated 30 June, 2010.
B. The Committee held detailed deliberations and after perusing the information
available, made various recommendations. These recommendations were duly
discussed by the Director with the Chairman, Standing Committee and Chairman,
IIPA. Thereafter Chairman, Standing Committee and Director discussed with the
three faculty representatives in the Executive Council. Chairman, Standing
Committee also held discussions with Training Coordinator & Research Coordinator
and thereafter asked Director for views on their comments. Finally the
recommendations with certain modifications have been approved by the Chairman,
Standing Committee & Chairman, IIPA as follows:-
1. The essential academic qualifications prescribed by the UGC for direct recruitment to
the positions of faculty viz. Professors, Associate Professors & Asst. Professors may
be adopted with the following modifications:
(i)
Since IIPA is not following the API/PBAS system, it may not be adopted.
For positions of Professor and Associate Professor for Academic
candidates, the qualifications as prescribed by UGC would be adopted
(except for API/PBAS system)
And
(ii)
For Practitioner candidates, for positions of Professor & Associate
Professors, officers of All India, Central and State Services with 10 years
and 8 years of experience respectively in the service concerned would be
eligible. For such officers, the requirement of Ph.D may be waived, or
other published work could be considered as substitute for Ph.D.

2. As regards the post of Asstt. Professors, minimum 3 years teaching/research
experience in the regular pay scale of Asstt. Professor (and not on consolidated
salary), or 3 years experience of working in Government as an All India, Central or
State Service Officer, or of working for 3 years at a comparable level in a standard
NGO, would be prescribed as minimum qualification.
3. As regards the consideration of the research experience for the positions of
Professors & Associate Professors, only the research experience in the regular scale
of pay at the level of Asst. Professor may be counted and not on consolidated salary
etc.
4. The IIPA may also follow the new Career Advancement Scheme of the UGC for
various teaching/non-teaching positions which are covered under the UGC service
conditions (however, IIPA would not follow API/PBAS system). For all other posts
IIPA’s existing CAS would continue in force
1. As regards the cases of Associate Professors appointed between 1.1.2006 to
31.12.2010, the guidelines prescribed by the UGC for pay band/AGP may be
followed.
2. As regards the provision of placing 10% positions of Professors in the higher AGP of
Rs.12000/-, this is deferred for the future and not accepted at present.
3. Workload Norms
Each faculty member to coordinate & conduct atleast 5 training week courses
each year (i.e. to coordinate 1 day, 3 day, 5 day or longer courses which add up to
coordinating/conducting courses for at least 25 days or 5 training weeks in a year).
Similarly each faculty should undertake at least one research project each year.
For freshly recruited faculty they should undergo the entire series of DoPT
sponsored faculty development courses like DTS, DOT etc. during first 2 years after
joining IIPA. Others faculty be encouraged to under go at least one faculty
development or Training of Trainer course within the country each year.
Each faculty should each year get at least 1 article and 1 book review published
in a standard journal or book and present at least one paper at a standard seminar,
conference or workshop. Due weightage may be given for those who have more
papers published or presented at Seminars, or for authoring or editing a book.
Weightage be given to each faculty member for administrative work done within
IIPA, and also for membership of Governmental committees and bodies.
Each Professor and Associate Professor be linked to one regional Branch.
Some flexibility may be allowed by the Director where faculty member does more
training, or more research work. For example Project Director, APPPA could be
exempted from undertaking research work in that year.
4. Academic Leave
The entitlement of academic leave in a calendar year for attending to
academic work not connected with the official duties of the Institute may be increased
from existing 12 to 16 days (if a person asks for more than 16 days of academic
leave, the faculty member would have to avail of earned leave). Accordingly, IIPA
office would maintain academic leave account for each faculty and such leave would
need to be got sanctioned from Director.
5. Honorarium for Training and Research Projects
(i) Honorarium for Training Achievements
Coordinating & conducting training courses for minimum period of 5
training weeks in a year would make a faculty member eligible for the incentive.
Incentive of Rs. 10,000/- for each training week of course conducted and coordinated
beyond 5 training weeks in a year would be payable. This would be subject to any

training course of more than 3 weeks duration being counted or calculated as a fixed
3 training weeks for purposes of this incentive. Also all those ToT courses for which
separate honorarium to the course coordinator is paid by IIPA such as the DoPT
funded DTS would not be included but would be excluded while calculating each
faculty member’s training weeks coordinated /conducted for the purposes of
calculating the incentive. Also if two persons jointly coordinate/conduct a course
each would be credited with half the number of days of the training course. A
maximum ceiling of Rs. 60,000/- per faculty member per year is fixed for such a
training incentive.
(ii) Incentive for Research
For Research Project Category (A), honorarium for guiding and conducting
the research project should not exceed Rs. 50,000/- per project provided the institute
receives 25% overhead charges and there is provision in the budget of the research
project.
For Research Project Category (B) which was formerly referred to as a
Consultancy Project, 25% of the net surplus of the project after meeting all project
expenses (including overhead charges which are to be credited to the institute)
should continue as as honorarium to the faculty members who coordinate/conduct the
study as at present. The honorarium to staff of up to Rs. 5,000/- (or 2% of the net
surplus) may continue.
However, the present limit of basic pay of 12 months for restricting the
amount of honorarium payable to any faculty member during any financial year may
now be changed to a maximum ceiling equal to 6 months salary payable to t he
concerned faculty member.
These decisions will be applicable w.e.f. 1.4.2011.
The above stands approved by Chairman, Standing Committee and Chairman,
IIPA.
(This is being reported to the Standing Committee and the Executive Council in the
meetings being held on 19 and 20 October, 2011 respectively).