Latest govt move finally brings salaries of medical teachers at par with their students’ pay

In its bid connected August 31, the authorities authorities had accrued the stipend of grade aesculapian residents to Rs 1,00,800 successful the archetypal year, Rs 1,02,480 successful the 2nd year, Rs 1,05,000 successful the 3rd year, and Rs 1,10,880 for the 4th twelvemonth (senior residents arsenic good arsenic objective assistants). This was done with retrospective effect from April 1.

Further, for aesculapian residents successful Super Specialist Services, revised stipend announced was Rs 1,20,960 successful the archetypal year, Rs 1,26,000 successful the 2nd twelvemonth and Rs 1,34,400 successful the 3rd year. This meant that the Health Department was paying a higher stipend to aesculapian students than it was paying successful salaries to their teachers.

The aesculapian teachers — Assistant Professors Class-1 — were receiving conscionable Rs 89,400, which was lesser than adjacent first-year aesculapian residents.

Even arsenic nonmigratory doctors astatine BJ Medical College had gone connected a strike, demanding adjacent higher stipends, they were cajoled into accepting the authorities government’s determination aft a gathering with CM Bhupendra Patel.

It is lone now, with this latest order, that the authorities authorities resolved this issue, describing it arsenic a “gift for doctors” and “a measurement taken successful the involvement of healthcare” successful Gujarat.

The authorities authorities connected Wednesday accrued the wage of Professor Class-I from Rs 1,84,000 to Rs 2,50,000. For Associate Professor Class-I, the wage has been accrued from Rs 1,67,500 to Rs 2,20,000. The wage for Assistant Professor Class-I has been accrued from Rs 89,400 to Rs 1,38,000 and that of Tutor Class-II has been accrued from Rs 69,300 to Rs 1,05,000.

Notably, portion the salaries of the contractual aesculapian teachers is taxable, the stipend of nonmigratory doctors is wholly taxation free.