Bhupendra Narayan Mandal University staff sans salary for 3 months

PURNIA: The teachers and non-teaching staff working in the post graduate departments and constituent colleges across Bhupendra Narayan Mandal University (BNMU), Madhepura, continue to be a harassed lot as they have not been disbursed their monthly salary packets for the last three months.
“It is not for the first time that more than 700 regular teachers and equal number of non-teaching employees have been deprived of their salary packets in time, but, like in the recent past, this is more a norm than an aberration,” said a college teacher in Kishanganj.
“It is back to square one and though Puja festival is only a week away, university officials are only keeping their fingers crossed, though the state government claims to have already allocated the salary funds for the universities across the state,” said an aggrieved teacher in Purnia. If regular teachers and non-teaching employees are faced with this kind of situation, the retired teachers and non-teaching staff are no better as they are also at the receiving end, said a retired principal Anzar-e-Alam of Marwari College, Kishanganj.
Besides, the pensioners and retired teachers are never paid what is due to them. “The university citing example of shortfall in allocation, always slashes our pensions and remits to our account much less than what is legitimately due to us,” complains Umesh Nandan Sinha. “Like retired school teachers, the government should directly send our pensions to our own bank accounts,” he urged.
“The backlog of monthly salary arrears has gone up considerably as we have not been paid since June this year,” said a college staff adding it only defies our imagination why the state government cannot release the monthly salary in time.
BNMU registrar Kumaresh Pratap Singh, talking to TOI on Friday, said, “ As soon as the funds are made available to us, salaries will be straightway disbursed to the colleges for payment to teachers.”