The officers and teachers of Vinoba Bhave University remained on mass casual leave on Tuesday protesting the Jharkhand Government’s decision of payment of their salary through treasury. All the officers including VC Prof. Gurdeep Singh and PVC Dr. MP Sinha sat on dharna against this Government decision in front of the administrative building of VBU with the teachers of the university.
Vinoba Bhave University Teachers Association has given the call of mass Cl and dharna as per the decision taken by state level association. The dharna program started at 11am and concluded at 4pm.
Teachers of different colleges participated in this dharna program along with the members of PG teachers association.
Addressing the gathering VC Prof. Gurdeep Singh said that I am also a teacher and fully agree with your opinion that this decision is actually against the autonomy of the university administration.
I am ready to pay the salary but the directions of HRD and chancellor office are hurdles in providing you your salary.
PVC Dr. MP Sinha said that we all officers of the university are first teachers so we are with you and we will with you in future also.
He also accepted that this decision of Jharkhand Government is against the autonomy of the universities.
The leaders of VBUTA BS Siddhu, BN Singh, Bipin Kumar, K Kumar, S Moitra and others also addressed the gathering and openly said that the IAS lobby has created this scenario because they do not want smooth running of the higher educational institutions.
Warning the political leaders they said that this IAS lobby has ruined the primary and middle education system earlier due to their experiments and now they are eyeing on the higher education system for which they will have to pay in next election.
They also said that if the Government will not roll back its decision then the teachers association will start agitation on the streets for which the current political leadership will be responsible.