Education dept releases grants for salary, pension to universities' staff
In its official order issued by higher education director N K Agrawal, the department has released a sum of Rs 407.83 crore for payment of salaries to the employees of 13 universities and another sum of Rs 375.97crore for the payment of pension to the retired staff of 11 conventional universities.
The state govt had on Thursday sanctioned a sum of Rs 3026.21 crore to the state universities for payment of salaries and pension with effect from June 2025 to February 2026. Payments from March to May 2025 had already been made to the universities.
Agrawal said that now onward, the universities will get sanctioned grants timely to ensure regular payments of salaries and pension to the university staff. The salaries for the month of July will be paid on July 31 itself, he said.
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