HRD parameters for sanctioned posts creates payment crisis in universities

PATNA: The Federation of University Teachers' Associations of Bihar (Futab) has expressed its serious concern over denial of salary to a large number of teachers, including re-designated demonstrators of the different universities of the state, in the name of un-sanctioned posts though all were shown to be working against sanctioned posts, as shown in the college-wise payment advice sent by the government to the universities.

Payments were made on that basis till February, 2010, but unfortunately different parameters adopted by the HRD every year for identification of sanctioned posts creates payment crisis in the universities, the Futab said.

Futab working president K B Sinha and general secretary Sanjay Kumar Singh pointed out that strangely the total number of sanctioned posts for each university calculated by the state government differs from year to year. The HRD records reveal that in 2007 total number of sanctioned posts were 11,787.

In financial year 2010-11, the posts shown by the government were 12,913 and in 2011-12 it became12,577 in eight universities except K S D Sanskrit University. In Patna University, the number of calculated posts of teachers was 856, 1,004 and 795 respectively.

In 2009, the then HRD secretary, K K Pathak, sent a list of sanctioned posts based on 2007 figure and directed the universities to verify them from their own records and submit a report without giving any authenticity to the figure shown in the HRD list.

All this clearly indicate that the government is not in possession of correct number of sanctioned posts and that is why different parameters are shown to have been adopted to give credibility to its calculations. Under such state of ignorance and uncertainty, the HRD has no moral right to withhold salary of any teacher or employee in the name of unsanctioned posts, the Futab leaders said.

They urged HRD minister P K Sahi to direct the universities to pay salary for the months of March to May to all those teachers and employees who were paid salary up to February, 2011, in the financial year 2010-11.