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The module members of Women’s Studies Centre of Madurai Kamaraj University has penned a missive to the Convenor of the Syndicate committee of the assemblage demanding imperishable absorption of teaching unit arsenic per University Grants Commission’s XII program guidelines.
R. Radhika Devi, Director, Women’s Studies Centre, done a missive dated September 25, said, the centre was established nether UGC Eleventh Five Year Plan successful 2009 and continued nether Twelfth Five Year Plan successful 2012.
“Based connected the syndicate approval, we were appointed successful regular UGC scale, and the centre has since been actively progressive successful academic, research, extension, and empowerment programmes for women arsenic per the UGC XII program guidelines for women’s studies,” she added.
It is pertinent to enactment that successful different State Universities, the Women’s Studies Centres were upgraded to departments and the teaching unit absorbed permanently.
She stated that the women’s survey centre had offered M.A. Women’s Studies since the 2017 world twelvemonth and were admitted till 2018-19.
As the admittance was stopped and the centre has been offering brushed skill, skill-based and supportive courses and non-major elective courses for different section students on with offering Ph.D probe programmes, based connected the submission of utilisation certificate and yearly enactment report, UGC reimbursed the assistance till the fiscal twelvemonth 2023-24, the missive noted.
“We person besides submitted required documents for the FY 2024-25 connected May 5, 2025 for the intent of reimbursement. The UGC successful its email dated June 6, 2025, has stated that relationship colony for a sum of ₹450.03 lakh pertaining to different departments is pending successful respect,” it added.
As the UGC has informed the centre that the aboriginal grants for the centre should not beryllium affected owed to the different pending payments, they (centre) person besides informed to the Registrar and Special Officer of MKU for immediate enactment whereas they person not yet taken immoderate action, the missive added.
Further, their salary has besides not been disbursed from April 2025 to till date, the missive alleged.
As the indefinite hold successful disbursal of wage and hold successful making them permanent, it has caused terrible fiscal hardship, affectional distress and nonrecreational insecurity for the unit who person been moving for much than 12 years, they added.
The missive demanded an enquiry into the deliberate suppression by the assemblage medication and sought the bid of the convenor to request the authorities to resubmit the close connection connected imperishable absorption of Women’s Studies Centre teaching unit earlier concern committee and syndicate, successful enactment with UGC guidelines.
