Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 24: A joint delegation of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology – Teaching Association Jammu (SKUAST-TAJ) and Non Teaching Employees Association Jammu (NTEA-J), called on Chief Secretary of J&K Atal Dulloo at Civil Secretariat today and discussed with him the salary issue of the university employees.
President SKUAST-TAJ, Dr Vikas Sharma, who led the delegation, informed the CS that the salary disbursement system has been disrupted in SKUAST-Jammu as the teaching and non teaching employees of the university are not getting their salaries on time from the last 1.5 years due to which they are facing financial difficulties in the very beginning of every month. Even till date, the employees have not yet received their salaries for the month of November, 2024 and due to delay in release of salaries, the employees are not able to clear their dues well in time like monthly installment of housing loan, insurance premium, school fee of children, medical treatment etc and they have to pay more interest in addition to their normal rate of interest, he added.
Moreover, he further said, low paid employees are more sufferers being totally dependent on salary. He demanded that proper mechanism should be developed for the disbursement of salaries of SKUAST-J employees on 1st of every month to save the teaching and non- teaching staff of the university from the mental harassment as well as extra burden of interest.
The delegation also requested for additional funds to overcome salary deficit of KVK establishment as the funds on account of travel allowance, medical allowance, children allowance for the employees of KVK establishment of SKUAST-Jammu have been stopped recently by the ICAR.
The SKUAST-Jammu employees also stressed for abolition of review system for enhancing retirement age from 62 to 65 years of the Professors of erstwhile State Universities as the process has created a sycophancy / biased pick and choose resulting in humiliation and anguish amongst the teaching fraternity.
The CS assured the delegation that their issues will be considered and in future the employees of SKUAST-J will get their salary on time.
Dr Vikas Sharma was accompanied by K D Singh – President NTEA-Jammu; Dheeraj Rajwal and Seema Bhatt.
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