Kolkata
The Left Front-backed Jadavpur University Teachers’ Association (JUTA) has joined anti-Left organisations in demanding that the state government increase the retirement age from 60 to 65 years. On Tuesday JUTA representatives staged a demonstration in front of Bikash Bhavan and submitted a charter of demands to the state principal secretary (higher education). The Association pointed out that 80 per cent of the arrears of their increased salary between January 1, 2006, and March 31, 2009, are yet to be released by the Centre, which would do so only if the state agrees to the UGC proposal to increase the retirement age to 65 years. “We want to know from the government what steps they have taken or what steps they will take or they are going to take on increasing the retirement age,” said JUTA general secretary Keshav Bhattacharya.
