Chennai: Three faculty members of Meenakshi College for Women, Kodambakkam here, are getting half of their salary for the last one year for protesting against the out time signing rule by the college management.
Without giving any reason their names were removed on Tuesday from their department attendance registers and their names kept separately.
Protesting this, B. Sujatha from Computer Science department, M. Vennila from Tamil department and V. Akiladevi from English department conducted a sit-in protest on the college campus.
“I joined the college as an Assistant Professor in 2007. For several years, the faculty members are treated very poorly. They are made to wait long hours before the mandatory out time signing every day. Some days, the lady members leave the campus after 8 pm,” said B. Sujatha.
“Court judgments and proceedings of director of collegiate education say the one-time signing is enough for the college faculty. So, we started this protest of not signing the out time register last February. After that the college management is not paying our salaries regularly,” she said.
When asked for comment, D.Parvathy Shenbagadevi, principal, did not say anything. Association of University teachers general secretary N.Pasupathy said, “The college management is acting against the rules and targeting the three faculty members. The directorate of collegiate education is afraid to take action on this issue saying the college management is an ‘influential’ one.”
