Salary Crisis Pushes BPSMV Staff to the Brink, Indefinite Protest Enters Day 3

Rohtak/Gohana, August 20, 2026: Employees of Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila Vishwavidyalaya (BPSMV), Khanpur Kalan, intensified their agitation on Thursday as their joint indefinite protest over delayed salaries entered its third day.

Angry over irregular salary payments for the past two years—with salaries remaining unpaid for as long as four months on several occasions—teachers and non-teaching employees said the protest would continue until their pending dues and the university’s financial crisis are resolved permanently.

INLD leader Prof. Sampat Singh visited the protest site and extended his support. He presented a statistical analysis of declining financial assistance to state universities and demanded immediate release of pending salaries, restoration of the grant-in-aid system, filling of all sanctioned posts and withdrawal of the policy of abolishing vacant posts.

Sarva Karamchari Sangh Haryana vice-president Sheelak Ram Malik, CITU founder Shradhanand Solanki and Engineers Association Haryana’s K.K. Malik also backed the agitation. They urged the government to release adequate funds to the university, warning that continued inaction could escalate the protest.

CM’s OSD meeting fails to break deadlock

During the protest, the Vice-Chancellor reached the site and invited an association delegation for an online meeting with Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini’s OSD Raj Nehru. The delegation raised the employees’ demands, but the meeting failed to produce any concrete solution. The OSD only assured them that the demands would be considered in the near future.

Teachers shed additional duties

As part of the agitation, teachers have stopped performing all additional duties since August 17. Employees are demanding immediate release of pending salaries, adequate budgetary allocation for the entire financial year through March 2027, and sufficient annual lump-sum funding in subsequent years to ensure timely salary payments.

Both teaching and non-teaching employees, including regular and contractual staff, have said they will continue the agitation until their demands are met and a permanent solution to the salary crisis is put in place.