Mangaluru : Boycotting the evaluation of answer scripts of second PU exam at five centres in the city, lecturers staged a dharna outside the Deputy Commissioner’s office here on Wednesday.

They were seeking implementation of the G. Kumar Naik committee report submitted in 2011 with regard to their pay scale. Teachers from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts took part in the dharna.

According to Ningaiah B., president, Pre-University Lecturers’ Union, lecturers from Udupi, who had been on evaluation duty at St. Agnes Pre-University College, St. Aloysius Pre-University College, Canara Pre-University College, St. Ann’s Pre-University College and Sharada Pre-University College took part in the dharna.

The lecturers have been boycotting the evaluation at 48 centres, including in Mangaluru, since April 3, he said. They just mark their attendance at the centres and return home in the evening.

In a memorandum, they said that the government was not fair in revising the basic pay scale of teachers since 1998. There was no parity in the basic pay scale with other equivalent government grade officers like tahsildars. The then Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa had apppinted G. Kumar Naik to submit a report. Now the government should implement at least the pay scale recommended by the panel. “Now, there is a difference of Rs. 5,300 in the basic pay scale of teachers when compared to the equivalent government posts. It should be rectified and teachers should be given the same,” he added. Some principals also took part in the dharna.