Lectures resign to start fulltime private tuition

PUNJAB, Aug 17: As Punjab Vigilance department had taken strict norms for lecturers of government colleges and aided colleges who were taking private tuition, some of the lectures are starting fulltime tuition leaving their Government job. Several lectures here are resigning from the Government job in colleges to continue their private tuition. Ironically or interestingly these teachers are best wanted in their respective subjects of teaching.

'Some of them started coaching centres with high investments. One of these lecturers says that it is job dissatisfaction that led him to resign and not the vigilance raids. Blaming the system for the menace of tuition, he said that delay in getting salaries was one of the reasons for quitting', according to a report from Times of India. Enunciating the necessity of the tuition one said that 'Only 10+2 students take tuition to prepare for competitive exams, and it takes a minimum of 225 working hours to complete the mathematics syllabus, while in the colleges there are 40 minute classes and hardly 200 working days in an year.' The report continues, defending the practice of tuition, he said that students in Hoshiarpur were paying Rs 500-600 per month for six months to complete a course, but now parents had to spend more than Rs 50,000 to prepare their child for competitive exams. According to him, parents were enrolling their children in expensive academies in bigger cities and also paying for boarding and lodging'.