Union Urges Payment of Pending Salaries for College Staff, Guest Lecturers

Quick Summary

• The Association of university Teachers (AUT) has demanded the immediate disbursement of June 2025 salaries for guest lecturers and administrative staff in Bharathidasan University’s erstwhile constituent colleges, now functioning as government colleges.
• AUT general secretary K. Raja noted that salary payments were stopped without prior notice from November 2023,affecting 81 guest/hourly paid lecturers and 28 temporary non-teaching staff.
• Following court intervention at the Madurai Bench of the High Court of Madras, BDU disbursed five months’ salary on January 2 and a subsequent payment covering salaries until April on June 19.It remains unclear who will pay June’s salary-BDU or the Higher Education Department.
• AUT has demanded monthly wages for hourly paid lecturers be raised to ₹25,000 per government norms along with pending arrears. Wages for temporary non-teaching staff also require revision per updated standards. Current pay disparities include:

– Guest faculty under BDU receiving ₹16,000/month versus ₹25,000 in other government colleges
– Non-teaching lab assistants earning ₹11,200/month
– Daily wage rates set at ₹633/month requiring adjustment

• The petition from AUT emphasizes regularized salary payments by the Government to address this crisis among affected staff.

Indian Opinion Analysis

This sustained delay in salary disbursement highlights critical gaps in coordination between Bharathidasan University and state education authorities that directly impact contract staff’s financial stability.While interim relief through court interventions addressed some arrears uncertainties linger about jurisdictional accountability-in this case between BDU and Tamil Nadu’s Higher Education department-for future payments due to a lack of clarity.

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