20-07-2025
AUT-MUTA to organise Statewide protest seeking CAS salary benefits
In line with the recommendations of the University Grants Commission (UGC) and Seventh Pay Commission, the Tamil Nadu government issued a Government Order on January 21, 2021, outlining provisions for career advancement of faculty members in universities and colleges, said J. Gandhiraj, president, Association of University Teachers, at press meet here on Sunday.
He added that implementation guidelines were subsequently released by the Directorate of Collegiate Education on May 4, 2021.
While faculty members in government colleges have consistently received Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) benefits along with the corresponding pay and arrears, their counterparts in government-aided colleges continued to be excluded from such entitlements, he noted.
'Following repeated representations from the teachers, career advancement pay was briefly extended to aided college teachers in Coimbatore and Thanjavur regions. In the remaining six regions – Chennai, Tiruchi, Vellore, Dharmapuri, Madurai and Tirunelveli, only promotion orders to the post of associate professors have been issued, while the corresponding salary revisions and arrears remain unpaid,' he added.
P.K. Periasamy Raja, president, MUTA, said that the Higher Education Minister Govi Chezhiaan at a meeting with the union representatives on June 23, 2025, gave a verbal assurance that the long pending CAS salary benefits would be incorporated in the July 2025 payroll, but, as of now, no steps were taken to fulfil the assurance.
'Condemning the State government and demanding our needs, we have planned to conduct a Statewide full-day demonstration on July 28 at all eight Regional Joint Director offices of the Collegiate Education across the State,' he said.
Next to that, a mass appeal on August 8 at the Directorate of Collegiate Education will be organised.
