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Panel sought to rectify anomalies in recommendations for lecturers

Staff Correspondent

‘Benefits offered to school teachers denied to lecturers’
Lecturers threaten to boycott evaluation work

Chitradurga: Y.A. Narayanswamy, MLC, has demanded that the Government constitute an official pay anomaly committee within a week to rectify the anomalies in the recommendations of the Fifth Pay Commission made for lecturers and ITI instructors.

Addressing presspersons here on Saturday, he said that some of the benefits offered to primary and high school teachers were not given to lecturers and ITI instructors. As a result, lecturers had threatened to boycott evaluation work. To overcome this problem, the Government should constitute the committee immediately.

He said that in a meeting on March 26 with Governor Rameshwar Thakur, several MLCs put forth many demands pertaining to the development of the education sector. The Governor agreed to fulfil some of the demands immediately. Accordingly, the Governor withdrew the order making B. Ed. mandatory for the appointment of lecturers in pre-university colleges. The decision to transfer non-teaching staff, who had been working in one place for over five years, was significant, he said.

In many places, non-teaching staff who were working in the same place for long had become corrupt. Their transfer would reduce corruption to an extent, he said.

He welcomed the approval for appointment of 2,285 high school teachers and 401 pre-university college lecturers. He also welcomed the single window system to appoint teachers in aided educational institutions and granting aid to non-aided institutions.

Mr. Narayanswamy thanked the Governor for approving medical reimbursement facility for teachers and staff of aided institutions.

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