The Lok Sabha and MLC elections in the State may disrupt the evaluation of answer scripts of Intermediate Public Examination (IPE), fear junior college lecturers.
While IPE evaluation started on March 16 with the aim to end the exercise by first week of April, spot evaluation centres may have to work overtime to finish the task at least by mid next month, sources said.
Teachers’ and graduates’ constituency elections are scheduled to be held on March 22. Soon after the elections, Ugadi festival, a public holiday, is also expected to affect the pace of evaluation.
Overburdened
Speaking to The Hindu, a teacher on evaluation duty said teachers are overburdened with answer scripts in some centres which fall within MLC constituencies. “At centres in Khammam, Adilabad, Warangal and Nalgonda, teachers have more answer scripts to evaluate. This was brought to the notice of authorities and now the extra scripts are being sent to other centres,” the teacher explains.
Elections are scheduled to take place in Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar graduates’ and teachers’ constituencies and in Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda teachers’ constituency.
As the intermediate board shuffles the answer scripts again, the evaluation may drag on till the second week of April. This, even when Lok Sabha elections are scheduled to be held on April 11. The board had expected evaluation to end at least five days before general elections.
Some teachers doing spot evaluation, however, said a week’s delay will not affect the result dates.
“The announcement of results may not be affected if we catch up during the second week of April. But the board [Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education] should have assigned more time for evaluation keeping in mind the election schedule,” a teacher says.
The evaluation schedule was fixed before poll dates were announced.