JOIN USThe Karnataka High Court has directed the University of Mysore (UoM) to regularise the services of temporary lecturers/guest lecturers who have put in 10 years or more in the varsity and colleges associated with it.
The court was hearing batch of petitions filed by Dr M Kantharaju, Assistant Professor, Department of Christianity and others working as temporary lecturers/guest lecturers in University of Mysore and colleges associated with the varsity, who had moved the court seeking directions to the state and UoM to extend the benefits of the University of Mysore (Absorption, Regularisation of Temporary Full Time/Part Time Lecturers) Statutes 2004, to them.
The court, while partly allowing the petitions, directed the UoM to take steps to regularise as one-time measure, the services of the petitioners and all such similarly placed persons, who were appointed under Section 51B of the Karnataka State Universities Act and who have put in 10 years or more, immediately before the notification of the rules.
The order further states that the university shall complete the process of regularisation within six months.
It says the university may impose a condition on regularisation that if the person/persons have not acquired the qualification like NET/SLET as required under UGC norms, they shall acquire the qualification within a reasonable time from the date of their regularisation. The order adds that the petitioners shall not be discontinued from service till they are considered under the rules that are to be formulated as directed.