Antananarivo’s university out of money

The administrative staff is proving to be as mightless as the professors’ union. The employees supposed to keep the university running engaged in a strike in response to a week long pay check delay. They started with a sit-in inside Ankatso, but the movement is short from radicalizing into a blocade of the campus. The university’s presidency officially require the ministry and the state to pay the lacking subsidies. 
 
Antananarivo’s university has been running without a coin in the purse since the academic year’s resumption. Four months after, things have become unbearable. Neither paying  one thousand wages for the administrative staff nor insuring supplies in basic commodities like paper or fuel was no more possible, revealed the vice-president Jean Eric Rakotoarisoa. The administrative staff is claiming the due wage, and promises to demonstrate, however, within the university. Paradoxically, the ministry invested in the construction of a residence for students, and planned the erection of a second university project in Antananarivo whereas the first one is struggling to even make a living. 
 
The ministry in charge is trying to skirt around the issue by blaming alleged process complications concerning Antananarivo’s university’s wage problem. Athanase Tongavelo tried to make believe that the delayed wages for replacement teachers’ extra time during the year 2009 was caused by some suspected faked declarations. As a result, Antananarivo’s Polytechnic Superior School got a blank July. 
 
“There will be no blank year” only insured the minister. As being pressured by students, the HAT government finally granted the necessary budget. Teachers, who declared more 900 hours of unpaid courses, were, however left behind. An internal investigation, potentially with the Bianco’s cooperation will decide about them. “We are not waiting for strike before tackling work” protested minister Tongavelo. Declarations are apparently contradicting the facts. 
 
The HAT government’s top priority is scholarships. Politically avoiding the students’ wrath is equally a priority. The required funds to repay the year 2009’s extra time is only reaching 600 millions of ariary, or 100 000 hours of course. The replacement staff is increasingly reluctant to keep going this way. “When I come to the university for two hours of courses paid 12000 ariary, I spend 4 hours in all, journey included and 8000 ariary for the fuel, it is nearly free service”. This retreated official from the Communication ministry expecting to make a good business is disappointed. “I prefer to teach in a private institute because one is sure to be paid and this since the end of the month “, he said. 
 
The academic world’s misfortune during the  HAT regime also  affects Malagasy students in Maghreb. For being deprived of scholarship during the whole of the dictating authority’s reign,, some students in Algeria have been expelled from their lodging and dropped into precariousness. The HAT regime finally decided to send some money and things are on ther way up. On the other hand, the Rajoelina authority decided to attack other scholarship holders: Madagascar’s ambassadors named under the Ravalomanana regime, “overpayed diplomats reluctant to serve the country’s cause “.