Use services of guest lecturers as per workload, colleges told

Ravinder Saini

Tribune News Service

Jhajjar, April 22

The Department of Higher Education has directed principals of all government colleges across the state to take services of extension (guest) lecturers, displaced after regular recruitment, according to the workload.

Sources say the department has issued the instructions following demand by displaced extension lecturers to accommodate them without further delay.

“Despite the instructions about adjustment of displaced eligible extension lecturers, such lecturers who were not adjusted despite availability of workload are still approaching the head office for their adjustment in one or the other college. Such incumbents may be adjusted with immediate effect, if workload is available in a relevant subject,” states a communique sent from the office of the Director General Higher Education (DGHE) to the college principals recently.

Rampal Badhwar, a leader of extension lecturers, says extension lecturers were removed from colleges after regular joining in place of them. The number of such displaced lecturers is considerable, he says.

“Though there is adequate workload available for extension lecturers, principals of several colleges are not allowing them to join. Over 2,000 extension lecturers are at present working in government colleges across the state,” says Badhwar.

Sources maintain the department has also decided to grant extension lecturers duty leave for attending seminars and conferences up to two days twice in an academic year.