Bharathidasan University directed to settle salary dues of guest lecturers
The Hindu
They have not received monthly salary since December 2021
: Bharathidasan University has received oral instructions from the Higher Education Department for settling salary dues of guest lecturers in 10 of its erstwhile constituent units that had been converted into government arts and science colleges.
The directive follows a representation made to the Minister for Higher Education by Association of University Teachers, detailing the plight of the guest lecturers, and urging the department of higher education to take up the responsibility of paying salary to all the temporary teaching and non-teaching staff.
In his representation, S. Bala Murugan, State General Secretary, AUT, reminded the higher education department that the ten consituent colleges of Bharathidasan University had been converted into government colleges in two phases in 2019 and 2020. A government order was issued then to the effect that the salary of the temporary teachers and non-teaching staff shall be paid by the universities concerned.
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