Ludhiana, Oct. 31 -- Despite being directed by the Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) to disburse within six months the revised pension arrears under the sixth pay commission to faculty members who retired before January 2016, the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has failed to do so, the PAU pensioners' association said on Thursday. The association also flayed the university for filing a letters patent appeal (LPA) against the single bench order on Wednesday.

"We were not given the benefit of the sixth pay commission revisions adopted by the university in 2023. We went to the high court in March last year and then in December following which the court directed the varsity to revise the pensions in four weeks and disburse the arrears ...