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The Panjab University teaching staff will leave service at 60. Justice Amol Rattan Singh of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today dismissed a bunch of writ petitions filed by professors and lecturers in Panjab University and its affiliated colleges for permitting them to continue till 65. Their claim was based on a Panjab University Senate decision, UGC regulations and a circular coupled with the recommendations by a task force committee. Their stand was that Panjab University was a centrally funded institution, as more than 90 per cent grant was coming from the Union of India. The retirement age had to be 65 as per the UGC regulations, their counsel had all along been contending.
