Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (MS)

Bengaluru, Jan 17: The internal survey done in the government colleges of Bengaluru urban district by the department of college education has revealed some startling facts. As many as 24 college lecturers are found to draw salary every month without any doing any work at all. The report also states that 45 lecturers have worked far less than the number of hours they are supposed to work. In the wake of this shocking revelations of the survey, the department is mulling of taking out an order of 'No Work, No Pay' for the college lecturers.

The survey has also uncovered the hard fact that six additional guest lecturers are working in a college, where there is no necessity of them at all. The lecturers who have zero work responsibility in the city of Bengaluru are teaching subjects like Physics, Political Science, Sociology, Economics, Social Work, Psychology, History, English, Geography, Hindi and Commerce.

The stipulated hours of teaching for lecturers, who have laboratory practicals is 20 hours and for those who do not have laboratory practicals is 16 hours per week.

An official of department of college education, who was involved in the survey said, "As very few students are opting for subjects like Sociology and History, the lecturers, who are teaching these subjects do not have much workload. This stands good for non-core subjects like Computer Basics and Indian Constitution also. Lecturers generally choose these subjects in order to reduce their workload.

"Lecturers do not opt to go to areas like North Karnataka as the number of students studying in government colleges is too high in those areas. They try to use political influence to get transfers to places like Bengaluru, Mysuru and Tumakuru, where the number of students in government colleges is very less as there are lots of private colleges. We have also found a forgery in admissions in a college. In record 120 students were shown. However, in the attendance register only 26 students are seen attending the college regularly.

"The department is thinking of bringing out an order in which a lecturer will not get salary if he or she does not have any workload. The lecturers, who have less work will be transferred to colleges where there are vacancies."

A lecturer who wanted to remain anyonymous says, "If a college in Bengaluru has 22 allotted posts for lecturers, a person from rural area, who has political clout, can get himself appointed as a 23rd lecturer. Due to this, the workload of other lecturers is reduced. These additional lecturers are generally given subjects like Environmental Science, Computer literacy and Indian Constitution, the subjects in which there is no examination. These subjects can be taught by lecturers with any qualification. Students do not give much attention to these subjects as there is no examinations in those. Lecturers are happy as they do not have much workload and get their salary regularly."

"Due to lecturers of these kind, the posts which fall vacant in rural areas are filled through guest lecturers. In many colleges, the number of guest lecturers is far more than the permanent lecturers," said the lecturer, who does not want to disclose his name.