Delhi Govt Directs DU to Pay Outstanding Salaries from Students' Funds, DUTA Says Move Unsustainable

For the past six months, teachers and non-teaching staff of Delhi University-affiliated colleges were going without salaries. The Directorate of Higher Education issued an order to the Delhi government funded colleges to pay the outstanding salaries from the Student’s Society Fund. DoHE order The note by Narinder Passi, Deputy Director,, said they have noticed salaries of teaching and non-teaching staff of colleges, affiliated to Delhi University and fully funded by the GNCT of Delhi, are outstanding/not being paid due to ongoing special Audit/non release of Grant in Aid. “Outstanding salaries to the teaching and non-teaching staff be released immediately from the Student’s Society Fund as has been done in the past, till the process of Special Audit is completed/ further installments of GIA are released,” said the order further adding, “For the purpose, requisite permission for utilizing the Student’s Society Funds for payment of salaries to the teaching and non-teaching staff is hereby accorded.” The Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi has said that if the funds do not suffice then they will step in, “If any salaries remain unpaid after the Student’s Society Fund has been exhausted, the remaining amount will be paid by the DoHE after receipt of formal request from concerned colleges.” The Delhi government funded colleges are: Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, Maharishi Valmiki B.Ed College, Maharaja Agrasen College, Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women, Indira Gandhi College of Physical Education, Bhaskaracharya College, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, Acharya Narendra Dev College, Bhagini Nivedita College and Keshav Mahavidyalaya. Teachers Protest DUTA president Rajib Ray said “Using Student’s Society Fund for paying outstanding salaries of teaching and non-teaching staff is unacceptable.