Non-teaching employees of all Haryana varsities resist management system

Ravinder Saini
Tribune News Service
Rohtak, January 18

Hundreds of non-teaching employees of all government universities across the state on Monday assembled at Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) here under the aegis of All Haryana Universities Employees Federation (AHUEF) in order to air their grievances and to resist the government directives about the uploading of information about all universities’ employees at Human Resource Management System (HRMS) portal.

They also threatened to launch state-wide agitation if the directives about uploading the employees’ information on the HRMS portal were not withdrawn soon.

The state-level protest programme was presided over by the AHUEF Chairman Dayanand Soni while MDU Non-Teachers ‘Association president Randhir Kataria was the coordinator.

“We will not upload our information on the HRMS portal as it’s an effort to attack the autonomous power of the universities. The government will misuse the information by transferring the employees from one to other universities and to creating monetary issues as well hence the federation is resisting it,” said Kataria, adding that the government had directed all universities to upload information of their employees on the HRMS portal by January 31.

He maintained that if the government’s intention was good and it wants to develop online system then it can establish a separate portal for every university to upload the information about non-teaching employees but the university employees would not share their information on the HRMS portal that meant for employees of government departments.

Soni raised the issue of a large number of posts of non-teaching employees lying vacant in all universities.

He demanded the universities to pay full salary to contractual employees on the pattern of equal pay for equal work till regular appointments were not made on the posts.

“Old pension scheme should be restored to secure the future of employees as the new pension scheme is not favourable to them,” Soni added.

The employees also raised other demands which include regular membership of president and secretary of non-teaching employees association in executive council and finance council, cashless medical facility on the pattern of state government’s employees and regularisation of services of all those working on contractual basis.