Bengaluru: With the talks between the Karnataka State PU Colleges Lecturers Association and the State government on hiking of pay scale failing on Friday, students who are agitated over the chemistry question paper leak might be into another big trouble with the lecturers boycotting evaluation.

IAS officer G Kumar Naik had submitted a salary hike recommendation report to the government in 2011. The lecturers association which has 30,000 as its members has threatened to boycott evaluating the answer papers.

JD (S) MLC Basavaraj Horatti who represents the teachers’ constituency has quoted the Naik reported and said that Rs 50 to Rs 60 crore to raise the salary of PU teachers and also an additional Rs 130 crore to increase the salary of schoolteachers.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had summoned the representatives of the association for a meeting to convince them not to boycott evaluation duty as the government would consider their demands at a later stage. He also said that lectures should now work in the interest of the students as many of them would be applying for higher studies and boycott of evaluation would put the students into trouble.

However, the lectures alleged that the lecturers in the neighbouring states get Rs 10,000 more than them. They also said that PU lecturers have been classified into Class-2 grade, while tahsildars, assistant executive engineers, block education officers had been recently elevated to Class-1 and their pay scale revised.

Association president Thimmaiah told mediapersons on Friday that there will be meeting of the office-bearers and the district presidents in a day or two to decide what will be done next. Siddaramaiah held a separate meeting with the MLCs, who represent the teachers’ constituency, to discuss the demands of schoolteachers.

The PU board has scheduled the commencement of preliminary work for evaluation from April 3 and the actual evaluation should begin on April 5.