Tata Institute of Social Sciences sacks around 100 staffers, including teachers, across all campuses
The Tata Education Trust had not released the funds needed to pay their salaries, the dismissed employees were told in a termination letter on Friday.
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The Tata Institute of Social Sciences, or TISS, has sacked around 55 teaching faculty members and 60 non-teaching staffers across all its four campuses, reported The Indian Express on Sunday.
This includes half of the institute’s teaching staff and all of its non-teaching staff at its campus in Guwahati, according to the newspaper.
Around 20 of the dismissed teaching staff are from the institute’s Mumbai campus, 15 are from Hyderabad, 14 are from Guwahati and six are from its campus in Maharashtra’s Tuljapur.
Many of them had been working at the institute for over a decade.
“Nearly a hundred institute staff members which were previously funded by the Tata Education Trust will become unemployed after years of service at TISS,” the institute’s Progressive Students’ Forum said in a statement. “It is completely a failure of the current leadership of TISS administration in running the institute and apathy of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government.”
The employees were reportedly dismissed without prior notice. They received letters of termination on Friday, saying that their contracts – which lapse on Sunday – would not be renewed “in the event of non-receipt of approval/ grant from Tata Education Trust”, reported The Hindu.
The termination letters, signed by officiating registrar Anil Sutar, said: “The institute tried its best for the release of grant from Tata Education...
