THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.24213 of 2010 ORDER: The petitioner was engaged as Guest Faculty in the Government Degree & P.G. College for Women, Karimnagar for the academic year 2009-2010. However, he was discontinued for the subsequent academic year. He made representations, dated 28.06.2010 and 20.08.2010, to the respondents with a request to engage him as Guest Faculty in the existing vacancies in the subject of Political Science. His grievance is that no action has been taken thereon. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Higher Education. The Government is proceeding as though running Educational Institutions is a temporary phenomenon. Long back, it stopped regular appointments. For some time, Part-Time Lecturers and thereafter, a new devise of engaging Guest Faculty is evolved. The whole effort appears to be to avoid appointment of regular lecturers and thereby to save the money to the Government. The result thereof is being felt. Unqualified people who are engaged on ad hoc basis are teaching the students and the standards are falling to miserable levels. It is rather unfortunate that even such arrangement is not being made consistently. In case the posts are vacant, it is just ununderstandable as to how the Colleges are being run. It is not out of place to mention that if a particular post is vacant in a private institution, the authorities of the Educational Department frowned upon it. Therefore, the writ petition is disposed of directing the respondents to ensure that no vacant post exists in respondent No.1 institution, after verifying the work load, and in case the post of Lecturer in Political Science is vacant and there exists work load, the case of the petitioner shall be considered for being engaged in that vacancy, within a period of four weeks from today. There shall be no order as to costs. _______________________ L.NARASIMHA REDDY,J Dt: 29.09.2010. Note: Issue cc in three days. (B/o) kdl