The indefinite protest by guest lecturers of Karnatak University seeking fulfilment of various demands, including pay revision, job security and others, entered the fifth day on Tuesday.
The main grouse of the guest lecturers is that despite a Supreme Court direction on equal pay for equal work and UGC guidelines for fixing ₹50,000 as pay for guest lecturers, the university was not following it.
The protesters alleged that the Vice-Chancellor of Karnatak University K.B. Gudasi had not taken any step to revise the pay of the guest lecturers although he himself had assured taking requisite measures after their previous agitation.
