KARACHI:
NED University and Karachi University teachers demanded the government to immediately release funds to their institutions on Saturday, as they claimed to be facing serious financial trouble, according to sources.
They criticised the government action of releasing grants to other public sector universities and termed it discrimination.
“The situation at NED University is critical as the university has to pay Rs100 million in interest to banks on a yearly basis from which it had borrowed heavily against employees’ general provident and pension funds during the previous administration,” said Dr Usman Ali Shah of the NED University Teachers Association (Neta).
The administration, he said, was unable to hold selection boards, promotions were being delayed while there were no funds to pay house sealing rent to employees. Consequently, a number of teachers had left.
