Resentment prevails among teaching and non-teaching staff of the government-aided degree colleges in Haryana state as they have not been paid salaries for the past few months, despite the issue being raised before the Chief Minister many times. More than 2500 teaching and non-teaching staff including the principals of as many as of 97 government-aided colleges in the state have not received their salaries since July 2023, Dayanand Malik, president, Haryana Government Aided College Teachers Association said.
He claimed a proposal to allocate a total budget of Rs 470 crore for the salaries of government-aided colleges’ staff for the period starting from March 1 to February 29, 2024 was passed by the state government to ensure timely payment of their salaries, leave encashment and gratuity but it did not work out. The president of the association said that the state authorities had also got details of bank accounts of the colleges and their employees, despite this the salaries have not been credited to their bank accounts for the past three months.
According to information, ruling BJP government in the state has now fulfilled the commitment made in their 2019 poll manifesto to take over the possession of government aided colleges in the state and chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar has now approved the same and on Tuesday State Higher Education Minister Pt Mool Chand Sharma had a meeting with the office bearers of the teaching and non-teaching staff unions in the presence of senior bureaucrats Rajesh Khuller, Chief Principal Secretary of the Chief Minister, Additional Chief Secretary (Higher Education) Anand Mohan Sharan, Virender Singh Dahiya OSD to Chief Minister and Dr Vikas Chahar President of the Aided College Teachers Association. Pt Mool Chand Sharma said that 95% salary of the teachers in government aided schools is provided by the state government, whereas only 5% payment towards teachers salary in private government aided schools is paid by the school managing committee.
The president of the non-teaching staff Vijender Kadian said that non-teaching staff working in government aided schools in the state have not received their salaries since past several months and they are also deprived of the benefits of medical allowance, ex-gratia, gratuity and increased house rent allowance.
