Teachers get pay cut for missed day despite government holiday

Five teachers of Thakur College face backlash for being absent on second day of Mumbai University’s mid-term Ganesh Utsav break

While the University of Mumbai had announced a mid-term Ganesh Utsav break for colleges across the city, as many as five teachers from the aided section of Kandivli’s Thakur College of Science & Commerce have reported a one-day pay cut in their salaries, claiming that the college remained functional on August 28, a day after the Ganesh festival commenced.

According to the teachers, who were travelling to their hometown during the break, they simply chose to opt for paid leave instead, but found that the college had registered it under ‘leave without pay’. “The college remained functional only for cultural activities and practicals on that day. Moreover, the ab