College teachers agree to conduct examinations

Disclosing this here today, GCTA president P. S. Bhatti said that the association had also decided to give the government more time to take a final decision on its pending demands. If, however, no decision was taken within the next fortnight and the government failed to issue a revised UGC notification, the GCTA would boycott the evaluation of answer books.

Bhatti said that these decisions were taken at a meeting of the GCTA executive here today, which was held to take stock of the situation arising from the boycott of university exams.

Bhatti also said there was a feeling that the Punjab government had no time or will to solve the problems of teachers and students.

He added that the state council would stage a dharna on May 3 in front of the DPI (Colleges) office to protest against the negative attitude of the state government.

Privatisation flayed
The state Karamchari Dal has strongly criticised the state government’s policy regarding the privatisation of Punjab Tourism Development Corporation. Hari Singh Tohra, presidentof the Dal, in a statement here today, said the contractual system introduced by the corporation was not going to benefit the state in any way. He said the government under financial constraints had adopted a policy to appease private contractors and favoured private contractors. He said the corporation came into being in April 1979 with assets worth Rs five crore and now it had assets worth Rs 300 crore. He said the corporation had registered profits but the government was going in for privatisation.

He appealed to the state government not to go in for privatisation of the corporation and its complexes and instead provide a facelift to the corporation complexes.