Lecturers in Telangana turn to valuation for money

HYDERABAD: As there is no clarity on when private and corporate colleges will clear their salary dues, many lecturers are looking at the valuation of intermediate answer scripts as an alternate source of income.
The Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TSBIE) has roped in 15,000 lecturers for evaluation duties to correct answer scripts of 13 subjects. More than 9000 of them belong to private and corporate colleges and of the remaining, 917 are government faculty, 3500 are contract junior lecturers and 1500 are guest faculty working in government junior colleges.
“Many colleges have not paid their staff salaries for April and May. Further, there is no clarity on when the new academic year will begin. So, it’s true that faculty of private and corporate colleges are showing more interest than ever to be part of the valuation process,” said Satish G of Telangana Private Junior Colleges Managements Association.
The board officials said that centres in green and orange zones are seeing more lecturers reporting than the allotted number. On Wednesday, evaluation of English, Sanskrit, Maths, Civics, Chemistry, Economics, Commerce, and vocational subjects started and 9,202 examiners reported for work. Out of which 591 lecturers reported at centres in Hyderabad, 523 in Medchal, 459 in Ranga Reddy, and 464 in Medak. “In some centres we have 110% attendance. We are not sending anyone back and are trying to use their services,” said Syed Omer Jaleel, commissioner and secretary of the TSBIE. He said that the board is taking all precautions —recording temperature of evaluators, providing sanitizers, fogging and disinfecting the premises every day, maintaining distancing norms among others.