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Patna,(BiharTimes): Notwithstanding the state government’s announcement of the UGC pay-scale on Wednesday the non-teaching employees went on indefinite strike from Thursday to press their charter of demands. The teachers of all the nine universities and around 250 colleges have also made it clear that they would go on strike from July 8 as they doubt the intention of the state government in implementing the new pay-scale.

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of FUSTAB and FUTAB is not ready to accept the cabinet decision on revised UGC pay scales, which it observed is a ploy aimed at defusing the seriousness of the proposed indefinite strike from July 8 following failure of talks with the government on June 25.

The JAC, after a meeting on Thursday, said that teachers would observe Betrayal Day on July 5 and will go on an indefinite strike from July 8 as per their original programme.

The JAC expressed surprise as to how the matter could go to the cabinet within few days when the government had demanded one month additional time for its implementation. The cabinet secretary’s statement that the government has accepted the pay proposal only in principle and that details were still awaited unfolds the real intention of the government. The teachers would not be misguided by this step, they added.

Those who attended the meeting included Arun Kumar, MLC, Ram Jatan Sinha, Kanhaiya Bahadur Sinha, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Dilip Choudhury, A K Thakur, Muneshwar Singh and Vijendra Prasad Singh.