new delhi renowned football commentator and former delhi university professor novy kapadia has been diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder and has been confined to his home in west delhi in his ailing condition he is also battling for his right to avail pension from the university where he worked for four decades kapadia is not alone almost 300 other retired teaching and nonteaching staff of the university have been from running pillar to post to receive their pensionunlike in jnu where pension was withheld as funds had not been disbursed by ugc in du it is stuck due to bureaucratic delay at the finance office and the other signing authorities of the institution from the finance office the file goes to the dean of colleges pro vicechancellor and the vice chancellorgulshan rai who is over 70 years old has been regularly making the rounds of du for his wife kiran rai who was a political science teacher at daulat ram college his wife retired in 2015 as she is 70 and cannot move around much rai has been going to get her file clearedlast week i saw over 500 files stuck at the universitys finance department since the previous finance officer retired there has been no movement of files it is hardly a 10minute job but nobody is listening to us complained raianother former teacher dr rajendra gautam who retired from the hindi department two years ago has also knocked several doors the pensioners are suffering a lot we cannot fight any longer she saidtaking up kapadias case the academic and executive council members have raised the issue with the vicechancellor yogesh tyagi but there has been no redressal from that end either kapadia is in need of the money right now for his treatment he is rightfully asking what is his and not a favour from the university said a teacherthe vc did not respond to calls and messages the finance officer could not be reached for comment on the matter