DU Salary Row: Delhi government to release grant-in-aid to two DU colleges for paying salaries
Delhi government has informed the Delhi High Court that it will be releasing the funds to two Delhi University colleges within the next two days.
The Aam Aadmi Party government has told the Delhi High Court that it will be releasing funds to two Delhi University colleges, fully funded by it, for the two quarters of the financial year 2020-21 to enable them to pay the salaries of their staff. The grant-in-aid will be released in the next one or two days to Maharshi Valmiki College of Education and Keshav Mahavidyalaya in accordance with the high court's directions of November 4 in a similar matter, the Delhi government told Justice Jyoti Singh.
On November 4, a division bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Subramonium Prasad had directed the Delhi government to release the funds by November 9, to four Delhi University colleges -- Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, Bhagini Nivedita College, Aditi Mahavidyalaya Women's College and Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies -- so they can pay salaries of their staff.
The instant submission was made by the Delhi government during the hearing of a plea which has claimed that for the last five months salaries and other emoluments of serving teaching and non-teaching staff have not been paid by their respective colleges. The plea by the Social Democratic Teachers' Front has also claimed that even the retire-al benefits of the pensioners have not been paid.
They contended that the non-payment of the salaries and retiral benefits is causing hardship to the teaching and non-teaching staff, both serving and retired, during the prevailing COVID-19 situation.
During the hearing, the Delhi government's additional standing counsel Jawahar Raja told Justice Singh told the Delhi High Court that a decision was taken on November 27 to release grant-in-aid to these two colleges, for two quarters of this financial year, so they can pay their staff.
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