BENGALURU: Despite Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announcing that Pre-University (PU) lecturers would be relieved from Socio-Economic and Educational Survey duty, around 70 of them are still assigned with the work in Bengaluru North and Bengaluru South.
Ningegowda, President, PU Lecturers Association, Karnataka, said, “More than 700 lecturers were assigned the survey duty in Bengaluru. We approached the Director of the Department of Pre-University Education, urging him to relieve PU lecturers from the survey. The reason is that apart from the survey, lecturers have to attend exam duty in their respective colleges. Midterm exams have begun for PU students from October 10 to 18.”
He added, “Later, Director of School Education Bharat S wrote to Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) Chief Commissioner Maheshwar Rao asking to relieve lecturers from the survey duty. Most of them have been relieved in Bengaluru, but around 70 of them, including 55 in Bengaluru North and 15 in South, are still in the field completing the survey. We have asked their supervisors to relieve them as early as possible.”
Ningegowda said that it has been difficult for these lecturers and their colleges. “We asked them to attend exam duty in the morning hours and start the survey work at noon. But this will leave the lecturers exhausted. Currently, the college principals are forced to depute others for exam duty in their colleges. We are hoping these 70 people will also be relieved of their duties.”
When TNIE asked the Director of School Education about the next course of action, he said, “It has come to my notice. There was a data mismatch in the list of lecturers to be relieved that we had submitted to the GBA last week. Hence, they have not been relieved. However, we have written again to the GBA commissioner and were told that they will also be relieved from the survey duty sooner.”