patna even as the state government is adamant on introducing comprehensive financial management system cfns and making salary payment to the university staff through treasury senior academics and legal experts claim the government move is illegal and unconstitutionaltaking strong exception to the reported move of making salary payment through treasury in the state universities they maintain that under the existing provisions of law and constitutional arrangement the teachers and nonteaching staff of universities cannot be paid directly through treasury university staff are not government servants and hence they cant be treated like government servants they claimquoting section 45 and 46 of bihar state universities act 1976 and patna university act 1976 respectively they asserted that all sums contributed or granted to the universities from the consolidated fund of the state of bihar for the purpose of the universities shall be credited to the university fund and not at all to the treasury of the state they also referred to section 51c and section 52c respectively of the same university acts to contend that salary allowances and pension of officers teachers and other servants of the university shall be paid from university fund and not at all from the treasury payment through treasury is to be made to the government employees and not to the employees of body corporate universities or autonomous institutions they saidhowever state finance department joint secretary udayan mishra ridiculed the charges and said there is nothing illegal in the system rather it is more transparent and less time consuming he admitted that in the beginning there might have been some delay in payment of salaries etc to the university teachers and staff but now when the system has been stabilized there would be timely payment to them he said but bihar public service commissions former member shiv jatan thakur said the state education department officials have brazenly failed to peruse annexure iii e of the 11page circular of the state finance department no 2587 dated march 13 2019 which has duly recognized the sanctity of statutory autonomous organizations like universities it has prescribed specific module for the universities for transaction of financial business in the cfms requiring certificate of establishment date of university without amalgamating the university fund with the treasury senior patna high court lawyer s c mishra said no state government officer is competent to abrogate section 45 and 46 and section 51 and 52 of the bihar state universities act 1976 and patna university act 1976 as amended up to date without suitable legislative amendments to the universities laws hence payment of salary or pension to the university employees through treasury under existing laws of the land is nothing but illegal he saidmeanwhile patna university teachers association president randhir kumar singh has criticized the state education department for creating financial anarchy in the universities by introducing the mode of salary payment through treasury he urged the chancellor and the chief minister to intervene and save the teachers and employees from unnecessary harassment