Teachers’ association flags delayed salaries at Himachal Pradesh University

Teaching and non-teaching employees of the Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) were not receiving their salaries connected clip arsenic stipulated, the Himachal Pradesh University Teachers Welfare Association (HPUTWA) said, and urged Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu to intervene.

“The university’s teaching and non-teaching employees received their monthly salaries connected November 10, aft staging protests. The stipulated day is the archetypal of each month. However, the delayed outgo of salaries has go a routine, which is an unfortunate and superior matter. In this financial year, the salaries were delayed astatine least thrice,” Harish Sharma, Chairperson, Department of Political Science, HPU, and erstwhile president of the HPUTWA said connected Wednesday (November 12, 2025).

“The recurring hold has caused heavy vexation and demoralisation among the university’s teaching and non-teaching staff. The postponement of wage disbursement not lone disrupts their fiscal stableness but besides undermines the world ambiance of 1 of the State’s premier institutions. Teachers person been boycotting classes to property for their demand, starring to world disruption. Students, meanwhile, person to carnivore the brunt,” Mr. Sharma said.

The State government’s determination to displacement the university’s backing of unit salaries connected the ground of grant-in-aid alternatively of a regular fund had created recurrent fiscal uncertainty, HPUTWA president Nitin Vyas and erstwhile caput Joginder Singh Saklani said. “We request the restoration of the aged strategy of nonstop fund allocation and timely wage disbursal, emphasising that the existent statement is unsustainable and detrimental to the attraction of world standards of the institution,” they said successful a statement.

HPUTWA has urged the Chief Minister and the Education Department to intervene immediately, reconstruct regular backing mechanisms, and guarantee timely wage disbursement to safeguard some the payment of the unit and the aboriginal of students.