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SKU teachers eye greener pastures abroad

By Our Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR, NOV. 27. The standard of education in campus colleges of Sri Krishnadevaraya University (SKU) here is being affected due to teachers leaving for other universities mostly abroad in search of greener pastures. Students are being forced to learn lessons from inexperienced teaching assistants.

University teachers are permitted to go on long leave and work in universities abroad for hefty pay packets, by paying some nominal monthly compensation to the university for their absence.

Earlier, teachers were given long leave for three years. But, now it has been extended to five years. As a result, several senior teachers of the university are working abroad and earning handsome salaries, while students continue to suffer in the backward region.

20 teachers abroad

According to university sources, there are about 20 senior teachers working for various universities abroad. Seven of them have already completed five years of leave but are yet to resume duties here.

Lajpath Roy of the Commerce Department has been working in the Backward Classes Study Circle at Hyderabad for about nine years and Narayana of Economics Department has been working in a South African university for about seven years. Some of the `migrated' teachers have returned to their parent university recently and are said to be making efforts to go abroad again for obvious reasons.

In 1998, the services of two senior professors -- Amarnath Reddy and Hanumanth Reddy -- of the Business Administration Department were terminated by the then Vice-Chancellor, P. R. Naidu. The two had spent 12 and 10 years respectively in universities abroad. They had moved the court and efforts are on to re-admit them in the university.

Students of the Law Department are the worst hit as three teachers of the department are working for a university abroad.

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