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A day after Pune Warriors announced its pullout from the IPL, the BCCI has said it hasn't received any "direct communication" from the franchise owner Sahara India regarding the issue. The board also confirmed that it had cashed part of the franchise's bank guarantee.
On Tuesday, Sahara had issued a press release saying it was withdrawing from the IPL over financial differences with the BCCI stemming from the valuation of the annual franchise fee it has to pay. It appears it has not formally communicated that decision to the board.
Sahara has repeatedly tried to get the board to revise its franchise fees - $370m over 10 years, the highest in the IPL - and had to pay Rs 120 crore (around $21.6m) this year before the start of the season.
"Once the 3 April 2013 due date had passed, the Governing Council had two letters sent to Sahara Adventure Sports Limited - one on 12 April 2013 and the second on 24 April 2013 - requesting settlement of the overdue amount," the BCCI's release said. "No payment was made and no response was received to the second letter and so, in order to protect its interests, the BCCI was forced to encash the guarantee."
Sahara had also complained that the process of arbitration, which began soon after the franchise initially pulled out in February 2012, wasn't progressing as the BCCI hadn't agreed on any arbitrator. The BCCI, in turn, said it was Sahara which was stalling the negotiations.
"The BCCI cannot be held responsible since every one of the eminent retired judges suggested by the BCCI was not found acceptable by the franchisee," the board said. "In order to break this impasse, a letter was sent to Sahara Adventure Sports Limited, proposing that as the claimant to the arbitration, it should approach the court to appoint an arbitrator so that the process could move forward. Again, no response was received to this suggestion."
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India, May 22 -- India's college teachers will be graded on their performance in deciding on promotions, but only to screen out the worst, the University Grants Commission has decided in a desperate attempt to juggle promises of faculty quality with populism in an election year.
Boxed in by competing demands from teacher unions and independent academicians, the UGC on May 10 decided to retain a long-promised Academic Performance Index (API) to rate teachers for promotions - but only for a "screening purpose."
In effect, this means that India's 10 lakh college and university teachers will only need a minimum API score to be eligible for promotions. Once they manage that eligibility, their API score will have no bearing on "expert assessment" of candidates in either direct recruitment or in promotions, the country's apex higher education regulator has decided, after hectic consultations with the human resource development ministry.
"It was a tough balancing act, but we believe the regulations we've finalized will address concerns of teachers and unions, without giving up on our promise to inject accountability and transparency," a senior government official said, requesting anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.
While announcing the 6th Pay Commission salary hikes for college faculty in 2009, the UGC had also declared that it would be using the API to rate teachers for promotions. The 2009 pay raise was aimed at making teaching a lucrative profession again after decades of losing bright young academics to industry and to foreign universities, and the API was an attempt to also inject objectivity and transparency in criteria used to promote teachers. The UGC regulations for teacher appointments and promotions in 2010 did not restrict the role of the API to only that of a screening mechanism.
But the move - supported by many independent academicians - was firmly resisted from the beginning by teacher unions that argued the API lacked flexibility and would in fact discriminate against teachers from weaker backgrounds. The complex new ratings system was also holding up appointments, some universities complained.
Faced with unceasing opposition, the UGC decided this January to scrap the API altogether, a move reported first by HT. But after the HRD ministry's intervention, the commission set up an expert panel to reconsider the performance rating system.
Published by HT Syndication with permission from Hindustan Times.
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