Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers' Association demands immediate release of pension

The JNUTA further alleged that the University administration did not follow court orders on the matter. 

The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers' Association (JNUTA) has demanded the immediate release of pension and other benefits of retired faculty members that have been withheld by the varsity. The JNUTA further alleged that the University administration did not follow court orders on the matter. 

"In standing with the retired faculty in their fight for justice, JNUTA demands the immediate release of all pension and all other benefits to all retired faculty whose dues have been withheld by the administration on the orders of the vice-chancellor," the JNUTA said.

In 2019, 48 faculty members were charge-sheeted under the CCS rules for participating in a one-day protest the previous year. "It is shameful that he has managed to not only get the Executive Council to approve the action based on deliberate misinformation such as charge sheeting, 48 faculty, invoking the CCS rules, despite the recording of the EC decision of October 2018 confirming the non-incorporation of CCS rules into the JNU Ordinances relating to service conditions of teachers," the teachers' body statement read.

In August 2019, the Delhi High Court had stayed the charge sheet and major penalty inquiry proceedings invoking CCS rules against the faculty. "Yet despite that, the vice-chancellor went ahead and ordered the holding back of pensions and other benefits for faculty as and when they retired. Individual faculty members were therefore forced to approach the courts for remedy," the statement said.

On November 23, 2020, the Delhi High Court observed that pension is neither a bounty nor a matter of grace depending upon the sweet will of the employer and also not an ex gratia payment but a payment for past services rendered. The teachers' body said that it has been nearly a year since the high court came out with the order but JNU has still not released the benefits for the faculty albeit it was directed to do so by the court.

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