Fighting COVID-19: IGNOU donates one day's salary to government
Team Careers360 | March 31, 2020 | 01:36 PM IST | 1 min read
NEW DELHI: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will contribute one-day’s salary of its employees to the government for fighting the COVID-19 situation.
An IGNOU statement said, all its employees, including teachers and staff across India have decided to contribute one day’s salary to the government to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.
“The IGNOU fraternity wholeheartedly contributes towards this cause in order to fight this global pandemic,” Prof. Nageshwar Rao, Vice-Chancellor, IGNOU said in the statement.
“As a National University working for the masses, it is also our duty to support our government in this hour of crisis,” he added.
The statement said the retired IGNOU employees have also asked for their one-day pension to be donated for the fight against COVID-19.
Earlier, the higher education regulator, the University Grants Commission had made a similar appeal. The UGC exhorted all the vice chancellors of universities and directors and principals of colleges to ask teaching and non-teaching to contribute to the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund to combat the spread of coronavirus.
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