The Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Senior Professor Sampath Amaratunge says that the Treasury has allocated Rs. 4.2 billion to pay the arrears of university non-academic staff salaries.
Addressing an event held at the Ruhuna University, the UGC Chairman assured that the non-academic staff who have been on strike for 75 days will report back for duty from next Monday.
Speaking further, the UGC Chairman said: “The non-academic staff who have been on strike for 75 days will report back for duty from next Monday. The President intervened to provide a solution to their salary disparity. The President should be thanked for that.
“I believe that if we can take our country to a state where there are no strikes. That is the development of the country”, he added.
The event, which was held on Friday (19), was also attended by President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Southern Province Governor Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena.
