madurai educationists in the city discussed in threadbare a host of problems ranging from corruption in education sector to disparity in salaries and low pay to teachers at a seminar held here on friday emphasizing that states higher education department has become a more corrupt department a speaker said rs 20 lakh to rs 35 lakh is paid as bribe to get a post of assistant professor in a government college and to get teaching post in selffinancing college rs 2 lakh is paid as bribe all college teachers coordination committee conducted a workshop in which more than hundred teachers working in the madurai kamaraj universitys mku constituent colleges and selffinancing colleges participated committee coordinator aundipatti a kathali narasinga perumal said there is a huge disparity between salaries of teachers working in government and governmentaided colleges and the university constituent colleges and selffinancing colleges in the state teachers in former category get rs 40000 to rs 125 lakh as monthly salary whereas teachers in the latter category get rs 5000 to rs 15000 as salaries due to such disparity and absence of facilities like library laboratories and playground students studying in the constituent colleges are not availing quality education he said mku constituent college thirumangalam viceprincipal karu murugesan said though many teachers possess necessary qualification prescribed by the university grants commission ugc to be appointed as university teachers they are unable to get appointed because of corruption mku convener committee member v venkatraman said the teachers in the constituent colleges and selffinancing colleges are working more than the university and government college teachers which is a sorry state in the higher education to get teacher post rs 35 lakh is asked besides teaching assistant post has been created in some institutions which is interestingly nowhere mentioned in the ugc he said tamil nadu government guest lecturers association madurai zone deputy general secretary r thangamuniyandi said the higher education department has become a more corrupt department in the last 10 years rs 2 lakh is given as bribe to get a teaching post in selffinancing college it is rs 20 lakh bribe in the case of getting a post of assistant professor in the government colleges no one talk transparently about it it is due to intimidation thangamuniyandi said he added that chief minister j jayalalithaa had during 2011 state assembly election assured to regularize guest lecturers but yet to do it head department of business administration wakf board college g selvaraj rued that there is no value for phd scholars trade unionist r murali krishna said there are legal provisions about teachers rights but are not followed properly assistant solicitor general g r swaminathan said low pay to the teaching faculty is unconstitutional if the issue is taken to the court there will be remedy for them