‘Ensure job permanency for guest lecturers’

Madurai: Makkal Kalvi Kootiyakkam, a collective of teachers/professors, retired teachers/professors, and educationists, has condemned Tamil Nadu govt’s move to recruit 4,000 college teachers by mandating Teachers Recruitment Board (TRB) exam as per new guidelines and demanded that guest lecturers who served for many years in colleges should be given the chance to get job permanency.Forum coordinators, R Murali, V Arasu, P Sivakumar, and others, pointed out that in the past, three court orders and a government order were issued in favour of providing job permanency for guest lecturers. “As per Madras high court order, the state govt must fill 1,146 vacancies by making guest lecturers permanent staff,” said Murali. The forum also condemned mandating the TRB exam.TNN