An instruction from the Higher Education Secretary to the Director of College Education has upset guest lecturers.
In February, Higher Education Secretary D. Karthikeyan held a meeting with the college education department officials. One of the issues discussed was the regularisation of Annamalai University staff. The principal secretary has instructed the DCE to send a proposal for the regularisation “at the earliest” so that it can be taken up in the review meeting slated for March 11.
The instruction has come as a blow to guest lecturers. V. Thangaraj, president of the Tamil Nadu All Government College UGC-qualified Guest Lecturers Association, said in 2019 the government had called for 331 posts but the recruitment process was later abandoned.
