Even as all are gearing up for the festive season, more than 2,500 teaching and non-teaching staff of government-aided colleges in Mumbai are still waiting for their last month’s salaries. Only after several teaching organisations raised their voice over the issue and approached the Director of Higher Education, the process of salary disbursement started.

As per regular practice, and also based on the government order regarding salary disbursement for teaching and non-teaching staff of aided-colleges, salaries should be issued between the 1st and 5th date of every month. “This is a clear unprofessional approach of the Mumbai Joint Director’s office of Higher Education. Salary disbursement is a regular process and why should we have to raise the matter?” questioned Kushal Mude, convener of All India NET SET Teachers Organisations and added that only after several organisations raised the issue, the process started.