Evaluation of intermediate answer scripts, which started on March 19, is moving at a snail speed as teachers from Telangana region are boycotting it in big numbers, sources said.
Though, officials at Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) said evaluation was going as per schedule, members of Telangana lecturers association, who demanded a region-specific evaluation, said dozens of lecturers are excuse themself.
BIE officials refused to say anything when asked for attendance percentage at the spot evaluation centre in Hyderabad. However, sources said that evaluation of Sanskrit answer scripts, which started on March 19, has been hit with about 6 per cent of those assigned the duty, boycotting it.
The ‘T’ lecturers association had asked BIE not to send answer scripts from the region to Seemandhra centres and put on alert that it would boycott evolution if BIE authorities did not agree to its demand.
“With regional sentiments flaring up thanks to state bifurcation, it is better for the board to do region-specific evaluation. This matter was brought up before the secondary education department way ahead of intermediate examinations this year,” P Madhusudan Reddy from the association had earlier said.
“Board is taking care of the interest of the students. Spot evaluation started on March 19 and all the evaluation staff is regularly attending duty,” said Rama Shanker Naik, secretary, BIE.
When asked whether evaluation was being done as per the demands of the ‘T’ lecturers he said: “Such classified information cannot be made public.” Naik, however, said that BIE was equipped to deal with