The agitating guest lecturers of government degree colleges got a sweet deal from the state government a day before Sankranti.
The guest faculties will henceforth receive an honorarium in the range of Rs 32,000 and Rs 26,000, depending on the qualification and experience as prescribed by the UGC.
Higher Education Minister Dr C N Ashwath Narayan announced this during a press conference in Bengaluru on Friday.
The minister said that the state government had decided to pay the guest faculties as per the recommendations by the committee headed by Additional Chief Secretary, Higher Education, G Kumar Naik.
The minister explained that the guest faculties who have UGC qualifications and five years and above service experience will get Rs 32,000 per month which is three times more than what they are currently paid. Similarly, those with UGC qualifications and less than five years of teaching experience will be paid Rs 30,000 per month.
Meanwhile, those without UGC qualifications but with five years of experience will get honorarium of Rs 28,000 and those who do not have UGC qualification and have teaching experience of less than five years will be paid Rs 26,000, according to the minister.
“They will be hired for a period of 10 months and their workload will be increased. The applications for the current academic year will be received from January 17 through the portal by the department of college education,” said the minister.
Demanding job security and fixed honorarium, around 14,000 guest faculties working with 430 government degree colleges in the state had been protesting for the last one month. This has stalled the academic activities at several government colleges.
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