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Will Karnataka lecturers wear a uniform?

  • Dress code for lecturers will be implemented after taking feedback from the student.
  • Previously in the year 2008, the then Education Minister implemented a dress code for teachers.
Will Karnataka lecturers wear a uniform

Department of Collegiate Education of Karnataka has decided to implement a dress code for teaching and non-teaching staff of all the colleges that comes under its authority. As a result of this, soon both students and now teachers will be seen wearing uniforms in college campuses across the state.

 

In its notification, the department has ordered the colleges to implement this dress code for ensuring discipline and equality inside the college campuses. But, the department has decided to take feedback from students before the order comes into effect. 

 

It has ordered the principals of all 411 government colleges to consolidate the opinion of students. The dress code will be implemented immediately after obtaining the green signal from the students.

 

The department is also thinking of giving nameplates that display name and designation of the teaching and non-teaching employees.

 

However, some lecturers are not ready to accept this order of the government. The teaching staff is questioning the relevance of dress code for degree college lecturers and also that why such rule is not imposed on school and pre-university teachers? 

 

Interestingly, this is not the first time that such a rule has been proposed in Karnataka. Previously in the year 2008, Vishveshwara Hegde Kageri, the then Education Minister also had implemented dress code for teachers. But the department had taken back the order after severe protest from the teaching staffs.

 

“Implementation of dress code after obtaining the opinion from the students is meaningless. Why the teaching staffs need the dress code when the students themselves don’t follow it?” – Dr. H Prakash, Chairman, Government First Grade College Lecturers Association.

 

 

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