Further delay in MU salary payment

GAYA: The postponement of the Magadh University syndicate scheduled for Saturday dashed the hopes of early payment of salary to the nearly 5,000 teaching and non-teaching employees of the university headquarters, 44 constituent and three minority colleges of the university. The meeting will now be held on October 15.
The university employees have not received their emoluments since June 2009 and the four-month delay is the longest one in the five-decade-old history of the university.
When contacted, MU public relations officer Shamsul Islam said that the syndicate meeting has been deferred in view of the changed situation. The meeting, according to Islam, was convened to find ways and means to bridge the Rs 4 crore a month gap between the salary grant made by the government and the actual requirements of the university.
The university officials have now got governmental assurance that more money would be released to ease the pressure on the university and as such the Saturday syndicate meet has been postponed.
Meanwhile, Arvind Singh, the government nominee in the MU syndicate has demanded the rescheduling of the meet now slated for October 15. According to Singh, chief minister Nitish Kumar would visit Tekari on October 15 and as such, it would not be possible for the governement nominees to attend the syndicate meet.