Adjust displaced guest lecturers, principals told

Ravinder Saini

Tribune News Service

Jhajjar, November 18

The Directorate of Higher Education (DHE) has asked principals of government colleges in the state to take necessary steps for adjustment of 69 extension lecturers who got displaced due to want of workload in the colleges concerned. A list of such lecturers has been sent to principals of all colleges.

Sources said the development came after guest lecturers approached the DHE, seeking their adjustment in other colleges at the earliest. Having being displaced, many lecturers had contacted their nearby colleges for adjustment, but without success.

The DHE asked college principals to verify the credentials of displaced guest lecturers before adjusting them.

It appealed to displaced lecturers whose names were not on the list to apply for their adjustment, the sources added.

“Despite availability of adequate workload, most college principals do not take much interest in adjusting displaced extension lecturers without recommendation,” said an extension lecturer, adding that regular appointment on vacant posts left a considerable number of extension lecturers displaced.

Rampal Badhwar, leader of the All Haryana Extension Lecturers’ Association, said despite regular appointments, a number of posts of lecturer were still lying vacant in colleges across the state.

Badhwar claimed that principals had been adopting a lethargic attitude towards them and hence, the DHE should ensure adjustment of extension lecturers on these posts.

He also asked the government to raise the salary of extension lecturers keeping in view their qualification.

“Guest teachers at the primary level and the postgraduate level and computer instructors in government schools on contract are drawing Rs 32,000, Rs 35,000 and Rs 36,000 per month, respectively. Extension lecturers are being paid Rs 25,000 per month despite being highly qualified,” Badhwar pointed out.

Most of the extension lecturers had not been paid for the past three months, though, as per standing instructions, they were supposed to get their salary before the 7th of every month, the association leader added.