TISS Rolls Back Termination Order of 115 Employees After Tata Trust Assures To Release Fund

New Delhi: The Tata Institute of Social Sciences(TISS) has released a detailed notice, revoking the termination of over contract termination of 55 faculty members and 60 non-teaching staff across four campuses. In its official notice, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences clarified that the terminated individuals were engaged under programs funded by the Tata Education Trust(TET) on a contract basis for specific program durations.
Revoking the termination of 115 teaching and non-teaching staff, the Institute “While it was unavoidable to issue discontinuation letters due to this contractual arrangement, there has been a positive development regarding the release of funds from TET.” The move was made after the Tata Education Trust (TET) committed to release funds for paying salaries, ending a funding dispute that had put the jobs of these contract workers at risk.
“Ongoing discussions with the Tata Education Trust have provided assurance that resources will be made available to TISS to resolve this issue. TET has committed to releasing funds for the salaries of TET project/programme faculty and non-teaching staff,” TISS in an official notice said.

All staff are requested to continue their work and salaries will be released as soon as the TET support grant is received by the Institute. The Tata Institute of Social Sciences(TISS), established in 1936 as a Deemed University and fully funded by the University Grants Commission(UGC) of the Government of India, is currently governed by the TISS Society in accordance with mandates from the University Grants Commission. One can check the official notice by visiting the official website of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences(TISS) at