Over 1,900 lecturers in Karnataka yet to receive payment for evaluation of II PU papers: Report
Bengaluru: Over 1,900 pre-university lecturers across Karnataka have reportedly not been paid their evaluation honorarium for the II PU examinations of the 2025–26 academic year.
According to the Karnataka Pre-University College Lecturers’ Association, the pending amount of Rs 13.5 crore has not been released by the government. “The government has to pay exam paper evaluation money to 1,908 candidates. We have decided to submit a letter to Deputy Commissioners of all 31 districts on November 7, placing our demands,” The New Indian Express quoted Association President Ningegowda AH as saying.
He further stated that if the issue remains unresolved, the Association would organise a one-day protest at Freedom Park in Bengaluru within the next 20 days.
Ningegowda further criticised the education department for making key decisions without consulting lecturers or college principals. "In June, the third round of exams is held for PU-II students and at the same time, a new batch is promoted from PU-I to PU-II . Holding classes and conducting exams is a burden,” he shared.
Highlighting the growing strain on teaching staff, he noted that lecturers are now required to conduct extra classes for new batch while managing evaluation duties. “None of the states or even other forms of syllabus, including CBSE, conducts three rounds of exams,” he stated.
“Earlier, lecturers used to get 45 holidays during summer and 15 days for Dasara. Now, there are no holidays as we need to conduct classes for students who fail in the first and second round of exams,” Ningegowda lamented, adding that the situation has contributed to mental stress among lecturers.
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Sangh Parivar still afraid of Mahatma Gandhi: Kerala CM
Thiruvananthapuram (PTI): Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 78th death anniversary and claimed that the Sangh Parivar was still afraid of him and his memory and that is why his name was removed from the rural employment guarantee scheme.
Vijayan, in a Facebook post, said that Gandhi was killed because of his uncompromising stance on secularism and his vision of a pluralistic India that embraces diversity and disagreement.
He claimed that the Sangh Parivar was afraid of the memory of the Father of the Nation and hence his name was removed from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
"Why are they still afraid of Gandhiji? The answer is simple. Gandhiji's life and vision are the exact opposite of the politics of hatred and alienation envisioned by the Sangh Parivar," the CM contended.
He further claimed that the Sangh Parivar was trying to remove Gandhi from the lives of the ordinary people.
Vijayan said that unity in diversity was "the foundation stone of the Indian Republic" and everyone should be committed to protecting it from the "totalitarian tendencies that suppress dissent".
He claimed that there were certain forces which were trying to "rewrite history and elevate communal murderers as heroes" in order to lead the country towards totalitarianism.
The Marxist veteran said that Gandhi was "not assassinated by a man named Godse, but by an embodiment of the politics of hatred promoted by the Sangh Parivar" which is still trying to attack and destroy the Constitution and the democratic values of the country.
He said that Gandhi's martyrdom was a constant call for the anti-communal struggle.
Leader of Opposition in the state assembly V D Satheesan too claimed that the Sangh Parivar was afraid of Gandhi.
In his message on Facebook paying tribute to the Father of the Nation, Satheesan said that Sangh Parivar was even afraid of the memories of Gandhi and that is why they were "erasing books and writings" to hide things from people.
He too said that the assassin of Gandhi was not just a man, but an ideology.
Satheesan said that even though the Sangh Parivar shot him down, Gandhi still lives on after his death.
Gandhi, the most prominent face of India's freedom movement, was assassinated by Nathuram Godse on this day in 1948.
