Govt approves pay hike for 7.5 lakh university teachers
The government has approved a pay hike for 7.5 lakh teachers across government universities and colleges, as per the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission, Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar has said. The hike would be anywhere between â¹10,000 and â¹50,000, he added. He further said that the benefits will be effective retrospectively from January 1, 2016. 