MUCTA demands 11 months pending salary

By A Staff Reporter

IMPHAL | Oct 27

Manipur University of Culture Teachers’ Association (MUCTA) today staged a sit-in-protest at the gate of Government Dance College at Konung Mamang, opposite Lamyanba Shanglen demanding their 11 months pending salary.

General secretary of the association, Irom Robindro, said that the university is in a very fragile state with no proper infrastructure, with no proper classes and the salary of the teachers are not given away for 11 months in a row.

In a demand for the regularisation of teachers’ salary and to get the attention of concerned authorities, the teachers association of the university today staged the ‘dharna’.

He said that cease work strike had started on October 12 for the demand of the same and it has been over 15 days now.

Students’ representatives of the university went to meet the Governor yesterday on the latter’s invitation, but did not get any positive response, he added.

Robindro also said that the irony of art and culture department is that it is planning to lay a foundation stone at Wakha for construction of MUC. He appreciated the initiatives of the government yet he wanted the government to work to improve what are in hand already, than continually chase new dreams.