19 August,2011 07:38 AM IST | | Alifiya Khan
Announces cash bonus of Rs 25,000 for all non-teaching staff with doctorate to boost research culture in its affiliated colleges
If the University of Pune (UoP) has its way, non-teaching staff -- including peons -- working in its colleges would have a PhD degree to flaunt. Keeping up with its promise to promote research in a big manner, the varsity officials have announced cash incentives for all non-teaching employees who would complete their PhD degree or have already done so in the past five years.
Promoting Research culture: The University of Pune hasaskde its
affiliated colleges to send a list of all non-teaching staff who have done
PhD. File pic
Registrar M L Jadhav has asked all affiliated colleges to send a listu00a0of all non-teaching staff, including clerks and peons, who have completed their PhD degree after 2005. "There are a few conditions to be verified before sending the applications. The employee must be working in a college affiliated to UoP and be on the payroll and have a work experience of more than 5 years. His confidential report must be satisfactory and there should be no inquiry pending against him," said Jadhav.
While the colleges termed the move encouraging, they doubted whether there was any candidate eligible to take the cash incentive. "As per my knowledge, there is no non-teaching staff in my college who holds a PhD degree. This move is good for staffer's career advancement and it might motivate people to take up research," said Jagdish Chinchole, vice-principal, Modern College.
His counterpart from Garware College, Shrikant Gupta, said that none of his staffers had completed their PhD degree. "Usually PhD is done by teaching staff and non-teaching staff do not do it as lot of research is required. And it wouldn't necessarily prove useful to them unless they take up a teaching job," he said.
According to principals, it would have been better if the incentive was given to people for enrolling and pursuing PhD. "They could have given the incentive amount in installments that would have helped fund research and admission costs partly and motivated people to take up a career in research," said the principal of a city college requesting anonymity.
