Dear Professional friends, The UGC is now a step closure to issue the fitment tables along with the UGC Notification on Measures for Maintenance of Sandards-2009. The Regional Consultative Committee of UGC held it's final meeting on 3rd June 2009 at Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi. It was attended, like in other regions, by the Vice Chancelors, Principals and Associations of Teachers, Librarians and Physical Education Personnel of the Northern Region. The Indian Academic Library Association(IALA) was represented by a delegation under the leadership of Dr.Abidi Deputy Librarian, Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi and IALA Vice President (north) along with Dr.Saleem Anwar Deputy Librarian University of Delhi and other professional Librarians of Delhi region. IALA had prepares a descriptive representation including the claims for modifications to be made for achieving total parity with teachers in the HRD Orders. The Chairman RCC appreciated the efforts made by IALA in all the regional meetings also. IALA has also claimed for including the Information Scientists post par with Assistant Librarian Posts and to include in the same seniority for promotions and other benefits. The committee was quite sympathetic to the demands and agreed to recommend as many suggestions as were under the ambit of the directives of MHRD and stated that other demands will also be included as its suggestions separately. IALA is extremely thankful to the representatives of both the teachers and physical education personnel who vehemently pleaded the case of total parity of librarians and teachers. -- Dr.P.V.Konnur Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois) University Librarian, Bangalore University Library, Jananabharati, Bangalore-560056 Phone: 080-22961131, 23215510 Website: http://library.bub.ernet.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.