Professsors from 12 DU colleges get full salary after 3 months of delay

Ad-hoc teachers, guest teachers, and contractual teachers constitute upto 50 to 60 per cent of employees in the above mentioned colleges

Professors from 12 Delhi University-affiliated colleges were facing a financial crisis for nearly three months due to non-payment of salaries. However, ahead of Diwali, the crisis has ended as the grants have finally been released and professors have been paid their full salaries till September.

The DU colleges said that the Delhi government did not release the grants, which led to a delay in the payment of professors, IANS reported.

These 12 colleges were- Bhimrao Ambedkar College, Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences, Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education, Maharaja Agrasen College, Bhaskaracharya College, Acharya Narendra Dev College, Maharishi Valmiki College, Keshav