A lady lecturer, on examination duty from Yamunanagar, told ENS that she had to borrow Rs 10,000 from a money lender to pay installments of a bank loan for construction of house. Other lecturers revealed that they were also compelled to borrow money from different sources to cope with the expenditure, like payment of admission fee of their wards in schools and other institutions. One of the teachers living with his aged parents, sisters and brothers, said that he has been warned of discontinuation of ration and milk if the shopkeepers were not paid by next month.

It was learnt that the colleges have received drafts of salaries from the Haryana Higher Education Directorate with reduced amount without any mention of the period to which it pertain. The MLN College, Mullana, received a draft of only Rs 85,000 against the monthly salary bill of Rs 2.5 lakh, DAV College, Sadhaura, got Rs one lakh against Rs 3 lakh, and SD College, Ambala Cantt, Rs 8 lakh against Rs 12.5 lakh.

The Haryana College Teachers' Union leaders who have been meeting the Chief Minister, Education Minister, Commissioner, and Secretary Education and Director Higher Education, complain that deputations led by the union president D. S. Dhaliwal and vice president U. V. Singh, have met them repeatedly for releasing their salaries, grant of UGC grades pension but they did not get anything except promises or assurances.

The union leaders are critical of the Education Minister's style of functioning saying that he was not complying with the directions issued by Chief Minister Bansi Lal who had told the deputation that he had done his job and now the Education Minister was to issue his approval for granting UGC grades and pension.

The teachers allege that instead of releasing the new UGC grades, already given in other states, their salaries in the old grade have not been paid regularly for the last over one year. Earlier, they used to get salaries with a gap of one to three months but this time, they have been denied of their due payment for the last five months.