MUTA-AUT protest outside RJD office demanding CAS salary benefits

The Hindu

6 days ago

Demanding disbursal of pending salaries to teachers of aided colleges, members of MUTA (Madurai Kamaraj University, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Mother Teresa Women's University and Alagappa University) along with Association of University Teachers (AUT) Madurai region staged a waiting protest outside Regional Joint Directorate of Collegiate Education's office here on Monday.
As part of the State-wide protest, the protesters waited the whole day outside the RJD office.
A.T. Senthamarai Kannan, General Secretary, MUTA, said that their key demand was to immediately sanction the Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) benefit along with arrears.
As per the Government Order of Higher Education Department issued in 2021, the CAS benefits should have reached all eligible lecturers. But due to the confusion in the G.O., it was not properly implemented, he added.
When their counterparts in the government colleges have received all benefits including their salaries, only aided-college teachers were devoid of the benefits, he noted.
'It has been more than four years now since the orders were issued, a section of us is left out in receiving any benefits. But almost all staff in northern and western districts have already received their benefits,' he said.
As the State-wide full-day demonstration outside RJD offices yielded no results, he said their next action would be to march towards the Directorate of Collegiate Education in Chennai on August 8.
'We are left to see if at least the mass appeal with the shake the consciousness of the government,' he noted.