PU notifies revised payscales of teachers, staff

PATNA: Patna University (PU) on Tuesday notified the revised payscales of teachers and non-teaching staff. The notification includes the teachers who retired on or after January 1, 2006.
The state government had notified the revised scales for teachers and non-teaching staff of universities and colleges in Bihar in July last year, but the university took about six months in fixing the pay of individual teachers and non-teaching staff in the revised scales.The same was notified after its endorsement by the Statutory Pay Fixation Committee.
Welcoming PU's notification of revised scales Patna University Teachers' Association general secretary Randhir Kumar Singh urged the state government to release the required funds to the university for the payment of salaries in the revised scale. The government has already announced that the payment of revised salaries would commence from September, 2010, he added.
CUB lecture: Professor Jiang-Shiou Hwang of Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University, said here on Tuesday that hydrothermal vent effluents cause mass mortality of zooplankton flowing through the vent sites. The erupted mouth of the vents have water temperature around 116 degree Celsius and after earthquake the temperature even reaches 126 degree Celsius under which hardly any zooplankton can survive.
Delivering a lecture on `The Effects of Hydrothermal Vent on the Marine Life' at Central University of Bihar (CUB), Hwang said that the most recent evidence shows that the low pH can limit the stony coral distribution. Hence no coral reef can be distributed near the vent.
Outlining the possibility of using environmental-friendly agents, copepods, as predator to mosquito larvae, he said that several other biological agents such as aquatic insects, mosquito fishes and even plant products could be applied to control mosquito population in near future.
He further pointed out that National Taiwan Ocean University and CUB can undertake collaborative studies on the effects of differential flow rates and turbulence strength in Ganga river system on animal behaviour and community structure and copepod as biocontrol agent of mosquito.