The committee, headed by Prof G K Chadha, said the recommendations would be submitted soon so that the state and the Central governments could implement it before the general elections due early next year.

“We will recommend uniform package to avoid any disparity. We will also recommend a uniform date for the implementation of the new pay structure,” Prof Chadha said after the committee met here on Tuesday to finalise the modalities and issues pertaining to teachers’ pays.

The other committee members are Atul Sharma, former vice-chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar; G Padmanabhan, former IISc director; Sudeep Banerjee, Chancellor, National University for Educational Planning & Administration, New Delhi and Manimala Das, Principal, Bathune College, Kolkata.

The earlier committees, which were set up to study the pay pattern of university teachers, had left the issue of pay structure to the discretion of the state governments as a result of which there has been a lot of disparity in the salary and emoluments of the state and Central universities.

The Chadha committee, which visited about 400 universities across the country, discussed various dimensions relating to the pay structure for about five lakh university teachers and librarians.

The major issues discussed at Tuesday’s meeting include pay fixation, increments, retirement benefits, transport allowance, house allowance, faculty development programme, children education support, medical allowance and difficult areas allowance.

“We would recommend change in the existing allowances. We will also recommend introduction of some new allowances,” Chadha said.

The committee’s terms of reference included reviewing the implementation of the previous decision of the government/UGC under the scheme of revision of pay scales approved for university and college teachers, librarians, physical education personnel and other academic staff.

It was also supposed to evaluate the extent to which earlier recommendations in relation to qualifications, service conditions and pay-scales have been implemented. It was also asked to examine the present structure of emoluments and conditions of service and suggest revision in the structure, taking into account the minimum qualifications, career advancement opportunities and total packet of benefits available to them such as superannuation benefits, medical, housing facilities, etc.