Tribune News Service
Patiala, May 19
The executive body of the Punjabi University Teachers Association (PUTA) has decided to boycott all assignments of the university on Friday in protest against non disbursal of their salaries. This is while the university has not been able to pay employees’ salaries for March and April.
The executive has condemned a delay in disbursement of salaries and pension for March and April. Due to this, all faculty and staff of the university are facing difficulty in discharging their daily responsibilities. The association has strongly demanded immediate release of grant from the Punjab Government for the purpose.
After a meeting of the PUTA executive body, Dr Avneet Pal Singh said, “The executive has condemned delay in disbursement of salaries and pension for the months of March and April. Due to this delay, all the faculty and staff of the university are facing difficulty in discharging their daily responsibilities. The association has strongly demanded immediate release of grant from the Punjab Government.”
“In protest against delay in payment of salaries and pension by the university administration, the PUTA executive has unanimously decided to boycott all kinds of academic and administrative work on May 21,” he added.
PUTA has called upon all heads of departments and deans of faculties to boycott all academic and administrative activities on Friday.
This is while the university is conducting various examinations on the campus. The university has released date sheets for various examinations, including regular, special chance and reappear students.
Among others, the university is set to hold exams of MSc (Semester IV), MA (Semester III), BA (Semester VI), and MA (Semester IV) Hindi and English on Friday.
The university’s regular semester exams will also begin from May 24. Date sheets for these exams have already been released.
Teachers said if their salaries and pensions were not released they would intensify their protest.