Kurukshetra University employees await salaries

Nitish Sharma

Tribune News Service

Kurukshetra, May 12

The teaching and non- teaching staff of Kurukshetra University are yet to receive their salaries for April. Besides, the staff hasn’t received arrears of DA and education allowance for the last fiscal too.

The KU has an annual budget of Rs480 crore, of which the government gives a grant of Rs108 crore for planned and non-planned expenditure, while rest of the funds are generated by the university itself.

Kurukshetra University Teacher’s Association chief Sanjeev Sharma said, “Usually the university gets quarterly grants from the government and it starts from June. Due to shortage of funds, the KU is yet to release the salaries for last month. Teachers are contacting the administration daily. The university has also not paid the arrears of DA and education allowance and contingency grant which was due since last financial year, even though income tax has been paid for these emoluments by the employees.”

“Last week, we were assured by the VC that the salary will be disbursed within two days but nothing happened. There are 370 teachers, 1,450 non-teaching staff, 700 persons employed through outsourcing and over 3,000 pensioners. The KU has a monthly budget of about Rs16 crore for payment of salary and pension. It”s for the first time that there is a delay in payment of salary,” he said.

KU Non-Teaching Employees Association president Neelkanth Sharma said, “Employees of Group C and D used to get wheat loan but this year that too was not given. We were given assurance for the salary but none for wheat loan, arrear and allowances. The employees should be given salaries, loan, arrears and allowances soon.”