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PATIALA: Being targeted for Punjabi University 's financial crisis, re-employed teachers here on Thursday termed it as uncalled for. "There had been little or no recruitment of teachers during the 1980s and most of the senior faculty of the university comprises of re-employed senior faculty. With the state government holding back the second instalment of Rs 50 crore grant promised by chief minister Parkash Singh Badal , the university mooted a plan to recruit new teachers on lower salaries.Prof Jaswinder , convener of the re-employed teachers' body, said the salaries of re-employed teachers did not exceed Rs 5 crore per year. They claimed that just a pittance was being spent on their salaries.At present there are around 70 such teachers and other staffers in the university. They had faced heat when in September 2016 the Punjab government had asked the university authorities not to re-appoint teachers who had retired to revive its fiscal health..