While the re-exam stress for students may end on Tuesday, the anxiety over the delay in announcing results is likely to continue as PU lecturers and principals, who have boycotted evaluation duty, may carry on with their protest.
The delay in results is likely to have an impact on their admissions into professional courses. Even though there have been four rounds of meeting between the State government and the principals’ and lecturers’ association, there has been no consensus.
Rumours were rife that the Department of Pre-University Education may rope in degree college lecturers for the evaluation duty or invoke the Essential Services Maintenance Act against the lecturers.
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However, H. Prakash, president of the Federation of University College Teachers’ Association in Karnataka, said they would extend support to PU lectures and refuse to evaluate answer scripts if they were asked to do so.
Thimmaiah Purle, president of the Karnataka State PU Colleges Lectures’ Association, also said that their association would not relent. He said that they were ready to face consequences if the government invoked ESMA against them, but would not give up their protest.