Malout, October 9
Nearly 200 employees of the Malout Institute of Management and Information Technology (MIMIT), which is affiliated to the Punjab Technical University (PTU), Jalandhar, have not got salary for the past four months.
The employees said they were last paid in May and were facing financial issues now. An employee, Ravi Chaudhary, said: “This is a premier college established in 1998 to cater to the needs of technical and professional education in the area. The institute has helped students get placed in various national and international companies. But it is a tragedy that the faculty are themselves sans salary for the past four months. On one hand, the government is organising job fairs and on the other it is unable to pay salary to its employees.” He said: “We even met CM Charanjit Singh Channi when he was the Technical Education Minister, but to no avail.”
MIMIT Director Dr Sanjiv Sharma said: “The government announced Rs5 crore grant for MIMIT, which is still pending.” — TNS
Malout institute staff await salary
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