Strauss-Kahn at NY airport, heading home to France
Addressing a press conference here, he said the Centre had agreed to give 80 per cent grant towards payment of UGC scales to lecturers with the balance to be borne by the state."However the centre has released the grant only for the period upto March 2010 and grant amount of Rs 856 crore is still due by the centreas its share," Acharya said.Having failed to reply to the state government’s repeated requestes, the Centre was now expressing its inability to release pending arrears, he said.However, "the stategovernment is still pursuing the issue with the centre", Acharya said. [More]Tags:strauss-kahnimf chieffrance