Pune: Colleges Demand Full Fee From Students But Cut Salaries Of Staff
Pune, 12th June 2021: Salary cuts and layoffs during the covid-19 pandemic has left many teaching staff in government and private institutes in dire straits. The Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) has reported an increase in the number of complaints of delay in salaries of teaching and non-teaching staff from its affiliated colleges.
The education regulatory bodies say they have received complaints about the non-payment of salaries of teaching and non-teaching staff affiliated with SPPU. Vice-chancellor Nitin Karmalkar said, “We are receiving complaints of non-payment or delayed salaries. The majority of this case is coming from engineering colleges.”
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic educational institutes in the country are shut. Learning is imparted through online mode for the past year.
“The collection from fees has also been reduced to 50 per cent. If fess is not paid by the students on time. It will be difficult to operate for us and pay our staff”, a college principal said.
Meanwhile, many students have said that colleges are demanding full fees from them. Many students have lost their parents to the covid-19 pandemic and therefore they are not able to pay the fees and in such a sensitive time students can’t force students to clear their dues. And it has become quite tough for management to coordinate the staff and resolve the issue of delayed salaries.
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