Starting October 6, the Mumbai University Karmachari Sangh began a protest in support of nearly 127 non-teaching staffers who are yet to receive their pension and fiscal benefits despite retiring eight years ago. Starting off as a silent protest, the union movement is to turn into a hunger strike if the issue is not resolved by October 15, according to members.

As per members of the Sangh, the university had stored all their recruitment documents on a mezzanine floor in the campus, which were washed away in the 2005 rains. “Since then, the matter lies in a limbo. The state government in 2016 had asked the university to submit a proposal to look into this matter. The proposal reached the Mantralaya in 2023, and by then, new queries arose,” said Avinash Tambe, the general secretary.