Calcutta, March 4 :     Employees of state universities will get their revised payscales soon following the state government?s decision to implement the pay committee awards for non-teaching employees. Higher education minister Satyasadhan Chakraborty today said the government order will be issued this month. About 10,000 employees of five universities will get the revised payscales with effect from January 1, 1996. The state will incur an additional expenditure of Rs 24 crore annually to implement it. Blaming the Centre for delaying the payment as recommended by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the Union human resources department, the minister said the state had already issued two orders to implement the revised payscales. According to the UGC?s directive, the Centre will bear 80 per cent of the expenditure for the first five years from January 1, 1996. Chakraborty said the state would require Rs 272 crore annually to pay higher salaries to teachers and non-teaching staff in colleges. ?We have asked the Centre to release their share of the expenditure. Our department?s secretary will meet his counterpart in Delhi next week to expedite the matter. We hope to receive the central funds by March 31,? he said. The minister, however, declined to comment on the date fixed for reimbursement of arrears due to teachers and non-teaching staff from January 1, 1996, as well as actual payment of the revised salary, saying actual payment depended on the fixation of payscales of individual teachers and other staff by college authorities. ?My department has sent new pay structures to all colleges and universities. It is now the duty of the principals to fix their teachers and non-teaching staff in the new structures and send a demand note for releasing money. We are yet to receive such a request from most of the colleges,? Chakraborty said. The minister claimed that the government was ready to release funds for paying higher salaries to teachers and other staff even if the Centre failed to release its own share by this month. ?I have already advised principals to use computers to expedite the process. In fact, we have already started paying revise salaries to government college teachers and non-teaching staff as they are under our direct supervision,? he added. The minister, however, warned that the government would enforce strictly UGC guidelines regarding working hours for college teachers. Mandatory attendance ?All college teachers will have to attend their colleges at least five days a week. Regular assessment of their work would be done by the principals and promotions will depend on this assessment,? he said. The minister iterated that the government would not compromise with the demand for retirement of teachers at 62. ?We stick to our decision that teachers should retire after 60 years. There will be no relaxation in the matter,?? Chakraborty said. He assured that the demand for higher payscales for part-time college teachers would be considered after consultations the the UGC chairman.