Members of MUTA (Madurai Kamaraj University, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Mother Teresa Women’s University and Alagappa University) along with Association of University Teachers (AUT) Madurai region staged a protest near Alanganallur on Saturday demanding immediate disbursal of pending salaries to lecturers working in aided colleges.
More than 300 MUTA-AUT members who participated in the protest demanded to immediately sanction the Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) benefit along with arrears.
As per the Government Order of Higher Education Department issued in 2021, the CAS benefits should have reached all the eligible lecturers. But due to the confusions in the G.O., it was not properly implemented.
MUTA president A.T. Senthamarai Kannan, who presided over the protest, said that even when the eligible lecturers received the CAS order in 2022 itself, many did not get any further information regarding the order.
“It is more than four years now since the orders were issued to the lecturers. When only a section of us is left out in receiving any benefits, almost all staff in northern and western districts received their benefits,” he said.
The State government even after several protests has not cared to listen to the educators’ voices, he alleged.
“An immediate action to implement the benefits and pay the arrears should be taken by the authorities,” he demanded.
Published – March 16, 2025 08:50 pm IST