Mangalore, December 6: Demanding to set right the disparity in wages paid to the PU College teachers, on a par with those of degree college lecturers, Karnataka State PU College Lecturers' Association and Coordination Committee will resort to indefinite classroom boycott from December 8.
Addressing the media persons at Press Club here on Tuesday, Jayaram Shetty, President of Government Lectures' Association said that the teachers comprising lecturers, principals and private aided college lecturers associations have backed call given by the association seeking fulfilment of their demands.
He said that despite several appeals to the Government since 1998, the demands of the Pre University college lecturers have not been fulfilled.
In the 4th Pay Commission, Assistant Engineers, Assistant Education Officers, Tahsildars, Block Development Officers of class II posts have been promoted to Class 1, but the lecturers have been ignored, he said.
Mr Shetty said since last five years through various struggles, the association had drawn the attention of the Government, but none of them benefited the lectures, he said.
He said there were huge pay disparity between the lecturers of Karnataka and their counter parts in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.
Vasudev Kamath, Jagjeevan Das Bhandary, Dr N Ismail, members of the association and Radhakrishna Rao Kandila and Shankar Narayan Nayak, members of the Private aided college lecturer's association among others were present.
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