FUTAB demands immediate release of pensions of Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University staffs

Patna: Federation of University Teachers Associations of Bihar (FUTAB) on Sunday strongly opposed the reported denial of monthly pension to more than 2,650 retired teachers and non-teaching staff of Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University (TMBU) and demanded immediate release of govt grants for the aggrieved pensioners.FUTAB’s working president, Kanhaiya Bahadur Sinha, and general secretary, Sanjay Kumar Singh, said that the pensioners of all the universities of the state received their pension for the month of Dec, but not a single retired teacher or non-teaching staff of TMBU has been paid the same as yet. They further pointed out that in July, 2025, the state govt released salary and pension grants till February 2026 to all the conventional universities of the state except TMBU. The attention of the state govt has been drawn towards this anomaly time and again by the concerned authorities, but of no avail. If the govt did not take cognisance of this anomaly soon, the pensioners of TMBU would remain deprived of their pension till February next, they said.TMBU pensioners’ association convener Pawan Kumar Singh has also urged the state education department to take necessary steps for releasing the pending pension grants to the university without any further delay to save the retired staff from unwarranted hardships.State higher education director Navin Kumar Agrawal told the newspaper that the full pension amount for the financial year 2025-26 could not be released for TMBU due to lack of some necessary information. Now, the demand for the sanction of required pension grants to TMBU has been forwarded to the finance department. The grants are likely to be released soon, he said.