LUCKNOW, July 21 -- A procedural deadlock that delayed June salaries of teachers and non-teaching staff at government-aided colleges across Uttar Pradesh has been resolved, with salary disbursal expected to begin within the next 48 hours. The delay had left thousands of higher education employees without their June pay, triggering widespread resentment across the state. Regional higher education officer Ashwini Kumar Mishra said the issue had been resolved and salaries would start being credited from Monday or Tuesday. Relief among employees grew on Saturday after a letter from Alok Dixit, special secretary, higher education department, to the director of higher education was circulated on WhatsApp. The letter directed authorities to continue using the existing drawing and disbursing officer (DDO) codes, effectively withdrawing the requirement to implement new 12-digit DDO codes that had led to the delay. On June 3, the state government had issued an order cancelling the existing DDO codes allotted to regional higher education offices for drawing and disbursing funds to aided colleges and grant-in-aid universities. The order required treasuries to allot new four-digit DDO codes, in line with a 2012 government order. Salary and grant-in-aid bills were to be submitted using the new codes and released only after countersignature by the concerned regional higher education officer. Teacher leaders alleged that implementation of the new system disrupted salary disbursal. Citing the difficulties, the director of higher education wrote to the government on July 1 requesting that June salaries be released under the old system. Federation of UP University College Teachers' Association (FUPUCTA) general secretary Amit Rai said the problem was not confined to one region. He said salaries had remained pending for months in the 10 newly created regional higher education offices, including those in Moradabad and Bareilly. "Due to the procedural changes, the process of salary disbursement for aided colleges across the state had come to a halt. Rolling back the new DDO code system is a welcome step," Rai said. FUPUCTA leader Pradeep Kumar Singh said the existing system also needed structural reforms. "If even one principal raises an objection, salaries of employees in all colleges under that regional higher education office get blocked," he said. Lucknow University Associated Colleges Teachers' Association (LUACTA) president Manoj Pandey said the association had also written to the principal secretary on July 1, highlighting the DDO code issue and urging the government to continue salary payments under the earlier system. "We welcome the government's intervention and urge it to complete the salary payment process at the earliest," Pandey said....