Inter evaluators raise the heat on BIE

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">RAJAHMUNDRY: The heat is on. Not just on the thousands of students who took the Intermediate examinations this year in this district, but on more than 100 evaluators correcting the answer sheets of the students at evaluation camp no. 3 in the Rajahmundry Government Junior College.<br /><br />According to sources, several of the lecturers involved in the evaluation work are in a great hurry to complete correcting and marking the answer sheets so that they can get out of the oven that the camp has turned into.Inquires revealed that more than 100 lecturers, in a written complaint to the commissioner of the Board of Intermediate Examination, have narrated their woes and lack of response at the evaluation centre in improving the working conditions.<br /><br />Speaking to The Times of India on Friday, some of the evaluators confirmed that they were forced to correct the answer sheets in rooms with poor ventilation and lighting. “Some of these rooms have asbestos sheet roofs and we are boiling in the 40 degrees plus heat,� one evaluator said.<br /><br />“We have to correct papers with one hand and wipe sweat off our foreheads with the other all the time, lest drops of sweat fall on the answer sheets and obliterate what the students have written,� another evaluator said.<br /><br />Though these problems were brought to the notice of the local BIE officials, no action has been taken, they added. “The conditions are such that none of us can say for sure whether we are doing justice to the hard work put in by the students because the heat is not allowing us to concentrate on our work,� another lecturer said.<br /><br />However, when contacted, the regional inspecting officer of the Board of Intermediate Education, Nageswara Rao, flatly denied the allegations levelled by the evaluators. The college can accommodate 1600 students and there is space for as many people. We have only 800 evaluators on any given day so their complaints are not correct, he said. He also said that some of the lecturers were raising the noise levels as the officials had instructed that none be allowed to leave the premises until the evaluation work for the day is completed.<br /><br /><formid=526372></formid=526372></div> </div>