Engg. college teachers to boycott exam. work

By Our Staff Correspondent

GULBARGA, JAN. 28. The engineering college teachers in the State will boycott the examination work of engineering courses conducted by the Visveswaraiah Technological University, scheduled to commence tomorrow, and the examination to be scheduled to commence from February 14 in Gulbarga University, demanding among other things implementation of the revised AICTE pay scales to them.

In a press note here today, the President of the Gulbarga District Engineering College Teachers Association, Prof. V. C. Tapali and the Secretary, Mr. Om Prakash Hebbal, said the boycott of the examination work had become inevitable for engineering college teachers as the Government was delaying the implementation of the AICTE revised pay scales due from January 1, 1996.

It was an irony that the revised pay scales had been implemented in case of teachers working in medical and agriculture colleges and polytechnics, while they were denied the benefit. The engineering college teachers in the neighbouring States were getting the revised pay scales of the AICTE already, they noted. Prof. Tapali and Mr. Hebbal said the association had made several representation in writing. Even meeting with the officials concerned and bringing their demands to the knowledge of the Chief Minister, Mr. S. M. Krishna, and the Minister of State for Higher Education, Dr. G. Parameshwar, were of no consequence.

Meanwhile, the Vice-Chancellor of Visveswaraiah Technological University Dr. S. Rajaseakaraiah, has said that the AICTE has agreed to communicate to the Karnataka Government the necessary guidelines to help it implement the new pay scales to teachers in engineering colleges. This has made him appeal to engineering college teachers not to boycott the examination work from tomorrow.

A press release issued by the Vice-Chancellor in Belgaum said the university had tried to persuade the AICTE to respond to the Karnataka Government's request to communicate the guidelines to help the Government revise the pay scales. This was in response to the VTU teachers' plea in this regard.

The Vice-Chancellor said the AICTE had initiated action and the notification to implement the revised scales was being forwarded to the State Government in a few days. It was a procedural matter which required some time.

He appealed to the teachers to bear with the delay, keeping in view the career of students and the psychological effect of any boycott or postponement of examinations on students. He requested the teachers to attend the examination works assigned to them from Saturday.

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