The All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has issued an order to the administration of the Smt Indira Gandhi College of Engineering in Navi Mumbai to immediately release the pending salaries of their staff. The order comes after mid-day’s report on the professors’ innovative protest on April 3, ‘If lectures can be held online, so can the protest’. The regulatory body took cognisance of the 34-day long online protest by the professors who had not received their salaries for over 19 months.

The case of this Navi Mumbai college threw light on the poor conditions of professors, as they struggle to continue the online academic year. Professors had gathered online for a protest after they were denied permission to hold it on the college premises.