Non-payment of dues to 12 colleges causing hardships to staff: DUTA
21.01.2022
New Delhi: Raising the recurrent issue of non-release of grants by the Delhi government for payment of teachers’ salaries in the 12 Delhi University colleges that the government funds, DU Teachers’ Association on Thursday said that a system of discrimination was continuing within the university.
DUTA members said that while the government spokeabout Delhi’s educationmodel elsewhere, it was shying away from paying its employees.
Addressing a press conference, DUTA president AK Bhagi said, “The employees and their families are going through a tough time. In the absence of salaries for months, they cannot run their homes due to great financial distress, that too in the tough times of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Is this the education model of the Delhi government where the employees’ salaries are delayed and denied?”
“These unjustified fund cuts for two years ha-ve resulted into the deficit of the tune of Rs 4 to 34 crore in different colleges and therefore, there is pendency of salaries and other allowances ranging from two to six months,” Bhagi explained.
The association also claimed that the state government has kept “shifting excuses” behind the delayed release of grants and the fund cuts.
“At times, they say that the money collected from the students’ fund should be utilised while in some other instances, they say that there is financial mismanagement in the colleges. However, despite several audits taking place, nothing substantive has emerged to prove the same. Delhi government seems hell-bent to turn these colleges into financially sick institutions or shift forcibly to self-financing mode with a higher fee structure. There also seems to be a strong apprehension about attempts by the government to take away the colleges to some state university like the College of Arts,” Bhagi said.
There was no response from Delhi government officials on the issue.
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