Guest lecturers may have to go without pay in May due to inivigilation duty

Guest lecturers successful authorities colleges person expressed interest implicit being assigned to invigilate examinations successful May arsenic they bash not person a wage for that month.

“Usually exams get implicit successful the period of April, and astatine the most, lone 1 oregon 2 exams spill implicit into May. But this year, owed to the Legislative Assembly elections, astir universities person scheduled exams successful May. It is unfair to expect impermanent lecturers to enactment without pay, erstwhile imperishable staff, who gain regular and substantially higher monthly salaries, tin beryllium assigned the aforesaid duty,” V. Thangaraj, State president, Tamil Nadu All Government College UGC Qualified Guest Lecturers Association, told The Hindu.