PhD Increment: Confusions Galore in Karnataka

The mistake committed by officials reflected in the following circular, which states the refunding of increments received by some faculty. It is also true that Government of Karnataka granted two PhD increments as per 1998 UGC order to a few faculty, which helped them to get consequent bunching benefit for their 2006 fitments, but majority of faculty who obtained their PhD between 1996-2006 were given PhD increments during the year 2007 according to Revised UGC Order of 2009, but the Government Officials failed to understand the fact that, non-compoundable increments are understood as compoundable increment, warranting the wrong order to refund of extra benefits received. Hence, the following order. The blogger expects that uniformity has to be maintained in all these orders and implementation.