Snag halts salaries of teachers, pensioners

THERE ARE NEARLY 6,000 TEACHERS, OVER 10,000 NON-TEACHING EMPLOYEES AND AROUND 10,000 PENSIONERS WHO ARE IN LINE FOR RECEIVING THEIR SALARIES.

- Arun Kumar

PATNA: In the poll-bound Bihar, thousands of teachers and employees of the universities, including those retired and living on pension, have been without payment since October-November 2024. This is due to a snag in the Comprehensive Financial Management System (CFMS 2.0) system being governed by the Finance Department.

However, a senior official of the financial department said that the salary up to December had been released around 15 days ago.

"The problem in the CFMS has affected not just university employees, but others across the government departments and efforts are underway to get it right. Hopefully, the varsity employees and teachers as also pensioners should get salary up to December in 3-4 days," he added.