Non-teaching staffers of various universities and their affiliated colleges across the state, who are staging a protest demanding payment of pending salary and implementation of the old pension scheme among others, have earned the support of teachers. Members of Shikshan Bachao Manch (SBM)—an educational collective, and teachers of junior and degree colleges have decided not to take on additional tasks/works which were assigned to them with the intention of making the agitation of non-teaching staffers unsuccessful.

The unions of non-teaching staff led by the Maharashtra State University and College Employees Joint Action Committee, an umbrella body of non-teaching staff at state’s non-agriculture varsities and their affiliated colleges, have demanded payment of pending salaries, filling vacant posts, implementation of the old pension scheme as well as regularisation of contractual employees.