Retirees from State government universities hope that their pension dues will be settled following a high court verdict.
On June 16, the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court, in a case pertaining to appeal for pension disbursement by the Manonmaniam Sundaranar University All Administrative Staff Association, ruled that the Local Fund Audit office has no powers to deny pension settlement of employees of the State Universities.
The MSU staff had contested a letter dated May 29, 2013, by Apurva Varma, then higher education secretary, to the director of Local Fund Audit and the registrars of state universities.
