Bharathidasan institute director booked over casteist remarks

Bharathidasan institute director booked over casteist remarks

- PEARSON LENEKAR SR @Tiruchy

Over 109 guest lecturers and temporary non-teaching staff working in seven government colleges, former constituent colleges of the Bharathidasan University, are yet to receive their salaries from June to August 2025, despite earlier court interventions clearing long-pending dues.

According to government orders passed in 2019, 41 constituent colleges under state universities were converted into government colleges. While permanent staff were reabsorbed by the universities, guest lecturers and temporary staff in courses without sanctioned government funding were to be paid by the universities, with reimbursement to follow later, as per a higher education department directive in 2023.