Education Desk:
QUETTA: Balochistan University of Information Technology Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS) has failed to pay salaries to faculty members and other non-teaching employees for the month of July.
Some employees and faculty members took to the social media network Twitter and lodged their protests about the non-payment of salaries. “It is distressful that faculty members and employees are deprived of their salaries”, Danyal Butt and Noman Khan, the two faculty members tweeted on Sunday.
The employees have been suffering from mental anxiety and financial issues because of the non-payment of salaries. The university administration has cited the financial crisis as the main reason behind the non-payment of salaries.
“We are trying to solve the issue”, BUITEMS official
“Yes, we have not paid the salaries, but we are trying to solve the issue”, a senior administration official of the BUITEMS said. He requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
This is for the first time in the history of BUITEMS that faculty members and employees are not paid their salaries. People on social media have lashed out at the university administration and Higher Education Commission (HEC) for their failure to ensure the payment of salaries.
“We would address this issue after Muharram ul Haram”, the BUITEMS official said.
BUITMES ranked among the top 500 universities in Asia
The management of the university makes lofty claims about financial and administrative management, but the situation is that even after 20 years, the university is suffering from a lack of funds and the institution has been hit with a financial crisis due to financial mismanagement.
BUITEMS is considered to be the face of Balochistan’s higher education. The University was ranked among the top 600 universities in Asia. Faculty members and students of the university have made good strides in terms of research, inventions and other achievements.
