PATNA, March 13 -- Holi is over and Eid is approaching, but not the wait for thousands of retired teachers and employees of the state universities, who have not got pension for over two months. On Wednesday, the Federation of University Teachers' Association of Bihar (FUTAB) wrote to chief secretary Pratyaya Amrit about the plight of retired teachers awaiting pension. "Pensioners are mostly low paid employees. The fourth grade employees are worst hit. The government says there is no financial constraint, but when it comes to universities even the salary and pension get delayed," the FUTAB leaders said. They said there were many pensioners, who suffered from cancer, heart disease or were on dialysis, and needed timely pension to survive. "In TM Bhagalpur University the delay is since December. Holi was discoloured and now wait is for Eid," they added. The government had last month stated in the House that salary and pension payment to employees would be ensured before Holi. "We have written to the CS that there has been no payment of pension for the month of January and February 2026 . We fail to understand why university teachers and employees, especially the pensioners, receive such step motherly treatment," said FUTAB working president Kanhaiya Bahadur Sinha and general secretary Sanjay Kumar Singh, MLC. Last year also, thousands of current and past employees were left without payment for 3-4 months and it was blamed on snag in Comprehensive Financial Management System (CFMS 2.O). It had happened in 2022, 2023 and 2024 too, when thousands remained without salary and pension in festive months. In 2023, then ACS (edu) Dipak Singh had told HC that the department would work out a mechanism to ensure timely payment....