The Higher Education department is contemplating a rollback of an order that permitted government and aided colleges to hire the services of retired professors up to the age of 70 years as contract lecturers.
The move comes in the face of considerable opposition raised by student, youth and teachers’ organisations especially those affiliated to Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI (M)], the chief constituent of the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF).
The order, issued a week ago, laid down guidelines for appointing lecturers on contractual basis in government and government aided colleges that function under the Directorate of Collegiate Education.
