Dear Professional friends, As all of you are aware that the UGC is now almost finalsed 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. The Regional Consultative Committee of UGC held it's final meeting on 3rd June 2009 at Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi prior to that the meeting was held in University of Calcutta on 31st May, 2009. It was attended, like in other regions, by the Vice Chancelors, Principals and Associations of Teachers, Librarians and Physical Education Personnel of the Eastern Region, covering the states of West Bengal, Orissa, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Chattisgargh. The Indian Association for Special Libraries and Information Centre (IASLIC) was represented by Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty, General Secretary, the Bengal Library Association was represented by Prof. K.P. Majumdar, Secretary, BLA and College Library Association of West Bengal was represented by Dr. Swapan Ghosh. All three Association(s) secretaries presented their views and submitted 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 IASLIC, BLA and the College Library Association. We have emphasized for total parity with teachers. We have also mentioned about IALAs representation. The said will be published in IASLIC Newsletter as well as IASLIC website. 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. IASLIC 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 Arun Kumar Chakraborty) Hony. General Secretary, IASLIC DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH: 91-33-2569 3268, 3270 FAX: 91-33-2355 3886 MAIN CAMPUS: 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH: 91-33-2350 2402/03, FAX: 91-33-2350-6790 Ph(Res): 91-33-23242100, E-MAIL: akc@bic.boseinst.ernet.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.