30% lecturers skip II PU evaluation

BENGALURU: The evaluation for II PU examinations started across 53 centres on Monday even as department officials said 30% of the lecturers did not turn up for the exercise.
PU board director C Shikha said appointment orders for evaluation were sent to 24,054 lecturers, but only 16,000 turned up, indicating that 30% were absent. Additionally, notices will be issued to lecturers who did not attend the camps on Monday, she said.
However, PU College Principals’ Association general secretary K R Manjunath claimed 15% lecturers were absent for evaluation work.
The lecturers had threatened to boycott the exercise to protest the 6th Pay Commission recommendations, which they claimed, ignored their demands. The protest was called off on March 21 following a meeting with primary and secondary education minister Tanveer Sait.
“This absenteeism has nothing to do with the protest as that was called off last week,” said Manjunath.