Vadodara: Technology Teachers Forum (TTF) of M S University’s Faculty of Technology and Engineering has threatened to stop all teaching work in the part-time evening courses run at the faculty.
According to the teachers’ body, the remuneration paid to teachers who take lectures in the evening courses has not been revised for the last six years by the university.
“We have given a 10-day ultimatum to the university authorities as our earlier representations before the vice-chancellor and the dean have failed,” said TTF secretary Dr A S Mohite.
“It was on July 31, 2012 that the university’s syndicate body had resolved that there will be 10 per cent hike in fees of students and similarly remuneration paid to teachers will also be hiked by 10 per cent every year,” he said.
“Although fees collected from students enrolled in the evening programmes are hiked every year, the remuneration paid to teachers is not being hiked despite the syndicate resolution,” he said.
The TTF threatened to launch a protest after its executive committee meeting held recently. According to the TTF, there are nearly 70 teachers at the faculty who take lectures in the evening hours between 6pm and 9pm.
With 150 students admitted every year in the part-time programmes, the total number of students enrolled in the four-year programmes in the disciplines of mechanical, electrical and civil engineering streams comes to 600 students.
Teachers, who take classes in the evening hours, are currently paid Rs700 per hour which the TTF has demanded be raised to Rs1,250 per lecture hour from the next academic year.