Teachers Slam Incentive Axe on Research Faculty, Call Move 'Illegal' and Damaging to Academia
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 28 August 2025 | The Telegraph
Professors from various universities on Wednesday described a government directive to higher educational institutions (HEIs) to withdraw incentives for MPhil and PhD degrees as illegal and detrimental to attracting talent to the teaching profession.
Several colleges under Delhi University, Banaras Hindu University and Ambedkar University Delhi have begun revising the salaries of faculty members after withdrawing incentives for research degrees. Daulat Ram College has even started recovering the incentive amounts paid to the faculty members…