Teachers’ Body Requests Govt To Release Salary And Pension | Patna News – Times of India
The teaching and non-teaching staff of most universities and colleges in the state have not been paid their wages for the last four to five months owing to the impasse.
According to the representatives, the move of education minister Sunil Kumar and education department’s additional chief secretary (ACS) S Siddharth to withdraw some ‘controversial’ decisions of former ACS K K Pathak about the freezing of bank accounts of some universities and withholding the payment of salaries of university officials as well as teachers created an atmosphere of goodwill among all the stakeholders of higher education in the state.
“The academic progress of the universities, which was virtually on hold for such a long time, would be now restored,” they added.
Federation of University Teachers’ Associations of Bihar (FUTAB) president Kanhaiya Bahadur Sinha and general secretary Sanjay Kumar Singh, MLC, welcomed the resolution of the conflict going on for several months and appreciated the minister’s initiative in thawing the impasse by extending due respect to the authority of the chancellor.
“Institutions of higher education cannot be run at the whims of one official by demeaning the statutory authorities and bypassing the provisions of universities’ Act and statutes,” Sinha said.
He added that after the ‘honourable’ resolution of the crisis and restoration of their dignity, the vice-chancellors should now run the universities under provisions of the Act and statutes with utmost transparency, maintaining financial discipline and a corruption-free administration.
The general secretary of All India Federation of University and College Teachers Organizations, Arun Kumar, and the treasurer of Bihar State University and College Employees’ Federation, Rohit Kumar, have also expressed their pleasure at the efforts of the department for restoration of normalcy in the field of higher education.
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