HYDERABAD: Following complaints from teaching and non-teaching staff of affiliated colleges, over denial of salaries for the last six to seven months, the Osmania University has sent a letter to the colleges to pay salaries and file compliance reports within a week.
It has come to the notice of OU that 182 colleges were paying only 25% to 50% salaries, while some were paying only once in three months. Many were also found threatening staff with termination, if they demanded regular or full salary.
“We have been raising this issue of faculty termination and non-payment of salaries since March. The teaching community is already in a vulnerable condition due to inept action of the university,” Telangana School’s Technical College’s Employees Association president, A Santhosh Kumar, who submitted a letter to the registrar seeking verification of faculty members in colleges, said.
Taking cognisance of the complaints, the university has now instructed managements of all affiliated colleges (professional and non-professional) to pay salaries to their staff, both teaching and non-teaching, regularly without any deduction and release arrears immediately.
“Further, the managements of affiliated colleges are directed to submit details of salary payments to the teaching and non-teaching staff for the last six months in the academic branch (affiliation section) within a week. Otherwise, stringent action will be initiated against non-compliant colleges,” OU registrar Prof Ch Gopal Reddy said in a letter sent to affiliated colleges.