Archive · 11 Oct 2026
Teaching Doctors Seek Release of UGC Pay Arrears
Doctors who teach in government medical colleges say they are still owed some pay.
The money is linked to a pay revision called UGC PRC-2016.
The doctors said the revision was meant to start in 2016.
They said the state government began applying it to them only in 2021.
At a meeting in Vijayawada, they asked the government to explain what would happen to the unpaid money.
They also asked it to release the arrears.
Bopparaju Venkateswaralu said doctors help provide public healthcare.
He urged the government to protect their pay and work benefits.
Government medical college teaching doctors have asked Andhra Pradesh to release pending UGC PRC-2016 wage arrears.
The appeal was made at a state-level Government Doctors Association meeting in Vijayawada on Saturday.
Doctors’ representatives said the state implemented the pay revision for teaching doctors only from 2021.
They said the recommendations were due to take effect from 2016 and that the arrears’ status remains unclear.
Bopparaju Venkateswaralu urged the government to protect doctors’ financial interests and service benefits.
- Who
- Teaching doctors in government medical colleges, represented at the meeting by Government Doctors Association and APGDA leaders.
- What
- They appealed to the state government to release pending UGC PRC-2016 wage arrears.
- When
- At a state-level meeting on Saturday; the article does not give a date.
- Where
- Vijayawada.
- Why
- The doctors said the pay revision was due from 2016 but was implemented for them only from 2021, and the government had not clarified the arrears.
- Issue
- Pending wage arrears under UGC PRC-2016
- Workers affected
- Teaching doctors in government medical colleges
- Implementation year cited
- 2021
- Year recommendations were due to take effect
- 2016
- Meeting location
- Vijayawada
- Meeting organiser
- Government Doctors Association