Is PAU paying a price for not having a bureaucrat on board?

The experiment that was proving correct all this while now seems to somewhat off rail. A senior faculty member of the university who did not want to be named pointed out,“Dealing with the babus of the government is simply not possible for a scientist. The clerks,babus,bureaucrats are trained in the skill of keeping the public running around in circles. They never say no to any work but will never do anything.”

PAU at present is struggling to get a grant from the state government to pay revised pay scales. The employees of the university are observing a chain hunger strike that entered its eight day on Sunday. A group of five members namely Dr Amarjit Singh and Dr Paramjit Singh Brar from PAUTA,Daljit Singh,Nirmal Singh (Nimma) and Jaipal from the PAU Employees Union sat on hunger strike today.

Another member added,“Bureaucracy can be tackled by beauracracy alone and we should rethink this policy on registrar. We could have an equivalent post for teachers but should leave the job of runing after the files for some one else to do.”

When contacted,Dr KS Sangha,general secretary,PAUTA,remarked,“A section of teachers have expressed this opinion but this issue is very cumbersome and there is a need to buid a large consensus around this. PAUTA had to struggle hard to ensure that a teacher gets this post and giving it up now is simply not possible. PAUTA at present has not thought about this issue at all.”