<p>Thousands of guest lecturers at government colleges, who have been protesting for permanent recruitment, have decided to get back to their jobs. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The announcement prompted the Department of Higher Education to withdraw its February 12 order on fresh recruitment of guest lecturers. <br /><br />P Rajashekhara Murthy, honorary president, Karnataka Guest Lecturers’ Association, said they would resume teaching “in the interests of students”, though their demands have not been fulfilled. <br /><br />Protest marchOn Monday, more than a thousand guest lecturers from across Karnataka took out a march from the Bengaluru City railway station to the Freedom Park against the department’s move to conduct fresh recruitment. <br /><br />“We will resume classes for the sake of students, but will launch a statewide bandh (of colleges) on February 26. We want permanent jobs. CET recruitments should to be stopped at once,” Murthy said. <br /><br />Some officials of the Department of Collegiate Education, along with politicians such as MLC Basavaraj Horatti, assured the lecturers of taking up the matter with the government. <br /><br />An official, who did not want to be named, claimed the protesters had not applied for the fresh recruitment. <br /><br />“Many of these protesting lecturers knew about their tenure and workload from the beginning. Close to 70-80 per cent of them applied for the new recruitment.<br /><br />Those protesting are the ones who didn’t apply. We will see how we can sort this out,” the official said. </p>
<p>Thousands of guest lecturers at government colleges, who have been protesting for permanent recruitment, have decided to get back to their jobs. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The announcement prompted the Department of Higher Education to withdraw its February 12 order on fresh recruitment of guest lecturers. <br /><br />P Rajashekhara Murthy, honorary president, Karnataka Guest Lecturers’ Association, said they would resume teaching “in the interests of students”, though their demands have not been fulfilled. <br /><br />Protest marchOn Monday, more than a thousand guest lecturers from across Karnataka took out a march from the Bengaluru City railway station to the Freedom Park against the department’s move to conduct fresh recruitment. <br /><br />“We will resume classes for the sake of students, but will launch a statewide bandh (of colleges) on February 26. We want permanent jobs. CET recruitments should to be stopped at once,” Murthy said. <br /><br />Some officials of the Department of Collegiate Education, along with politicians such as MLC Basavaraj Horatti, assured the lecturers of taking up the matter with the government. <br /><br />An official, who did not want to be named, claimed the protesters had not applied for the fresh recruitment. <br /><br />“Many of these protesting lecturers knew about their tenure and workload from the beginning. Close to 70-80 per cent of them applied for the new recruitment.<br /><br />Those protesting are the ones who didn’t apply. We will see how we can sort this out,” the official said. </p>
