The faculty and non-teaching staff of University of Madras went on a daylong fast demanding that the State government provide the grants due to the institution.
On February 8, the Income Tax (I-T) Department sent a notice stating that the university’s bank accounts and 37 of its fixed deposit accounts were frozen as the institution owed the department ₹424 crore as I-T arrears for three years. The university had issued dozens of cheques that could not be credited.
For the past seven years, the State government has denied the university its regular grants citing objections raised by the Local Fund Audit office. The university has been struggling every month to pay salaries and has not paid pension benefits to its retired faculty since 2018.
