khushwant ahluwaliahoshiarpur after the punjab vigilance departments crackdown on lecturers of government colleges and aided colleges who were taking private tuition many have resigned from their jobs to take up tuitions full timetwo lecturers manoj malhotra lecturer of mathematics at sd college hariana and sk mahajan lecturer of physics at the local dav college have quit their jobs and opened coaching centersthese coaching classes are advertised through hand bills in newspapers and the cable tvit is alleged that both of them have been giving tuitions since a long time and had established themselves as leading teachers in their respective subjectscolleagues of these lecturers opined that no lecturer would leave his secure job until he was sure of earning three to four times more from tuitionshowever one of these lecturers refuted this allegation saying that it was job dissatisfaction that led him to resign and not the vigilance raids blaming the system for the menace of tuitions he said that delay in getting salaries was one of the reasons for quittingaccording to him only 102 students take tuitions to prepare for competitive exams and it takes a minimum of 225 working hours to complete the mathematics syllabus while in the colleges there are 40 minute classes and hardly 200 working days in an year defending the practice of tuitions he said that students in hoshiarpur were paying rs 500600 per month for six months to complete a course but now parents had to spend more than rs 50000 to prepare their child for competitive exams according to him parents were enrolling their children in expensive academies in bigger cities and also paying for boarding and lodgingeducationists hope that this trend may well lead to a sudden shortage of experienced mathematics and science teachers in colleges tnn tried to fix an appointment with sk mahajan over the phone but he took umbrage at being called and said that his sleep had been disturbed