<p>About 4,000 pre-university college lecturers didn’t turn up for work on Wednesday, the first day of answer script evaluation.<br /><br />C Shikha, director of the Department of Pre-University Education, directed them to start from Thursday or face action.<br /><br />The evaluation of second pre-university exam answer scripts began on Wednesday at 48 camps in Bengaluru, Mysuru, Shivamogga, Mangaluru, Davangere, Dharwad and Belagavi. The exams concluded on March 27. <br /><br />The department has delegated 21,000 academics, including principals, for evaluation duty. About a fifth of them were absent on Wednesday. Shikha said the staff would face action if they failed to turn up at their centres on April 6. <br /><br />“Evaluation centres for physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, computer science, economics, and accountancy in Bengaluru had low attendance,” she said.<br /><br />Attendance was only about 60% at Vijaya PU College, Sri Kumaran PU College, BEL College (Jalahalli), RNS Vidyaniketan Composite PU College, Mount Carmel College, Seshadripuram Pre-University College and Seshadripuram Pre-University College (Yelahanka).<br /><br />Thimmaiah Purle, president of the Karnataka State Pre-university College Lecturers’ Association, said the absence was not due to any boycott.<br /><br />“Some may have received their orders late, and not got tickets in time to travel to their assigned centres,” he said.<br /><br /></p>
<p>About 4,000 pre-university college lecturers didn’t turn up for work on Wednesday, the first day of answer script evaluation.<br /><br />C Shikha, director of the Department of Pre-University Education, directed them to start from Thursday or face action.<br /><br />The evaluation of second pre-university exam answer scripts began on Wednesday at 48 camps in Bengaluru, Mysuru, Shivamogga, Mangaluru, Davangere, Dharwad and Belagavi. The exams concluded on March 27. <br /><br />The department has delegated 21,000 academics, including principals, for evaluation duty. About a fifth of them were absent on Wednesday. Shikha said the staff would face action if they failed to turn up at their centres on April 6. <br /><br />“Evaluation centres for physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, computer science, economics, and accountancy in Bengaluru had low attendance,” she said.<br /><br />Attendance was only about 60% at Vijaya PU College, Sri Kumaran PU College, BEL College (Jalahalli), RNS Vidyaniketan Composite PU College, Mount Carmel College, Seshadripuram Pre-University College and Seshadripuram Pre-University College (Yelahanka).<br /><br />Thimmaiah Purle, president of the Karnataka State Pre-university College Lecturers’ Association, said the absence was not due to any boycott.<br /><br />“Some may have received their orders late, and not got tickets in time to travel to their assigned centres,” he said.<br /><br /></p>
