Lecturers in State-run universities have threatened to strike work and boycott the undergraduate and postgraduate examinations if the State government failed to pay the pending arrears of the 2006 University Grants Commission (UGC) pay scales revised from 2009.
At a press conference here on Saturday, members of the Karnataka State Universities Postgraduate Teachers’ Association said the State had not released nearly 80 per cent of the arrears despite repeated requests, and the Union government’s direction to all the State governments in 2012.
Expressing discontent about the delay by the government in paying their arrears, they sought to know why they are being ‘discriminated’ against as the government had already released all the arrears for those teaching in university of agricultural sciences.
