Imphal, May 11: A cloud of uncertainty has enveloped the efforts of the Board of Secondary Education, Manipur (BSEM) to declare the results of the matriculation on time, as the examiners have stopped evaluating answer scripts indefinitely in protest against alleged failure of the Board to increase their remuneration.

Around 300 examiners today staged a walk out leaving the answer scripts behind from their respective class rooms at TG Higher Secondary School demanding a hike in the remuneration at about 11 am.

The same mode of protest was also adopted by other examiners at the Board premises before joining their counterparts at the TG School complex.

The existing remuneration rate given by the Board to the examiners for evaluating the answer scripts is said to be Rs 2.75 per script for 100 mark subjects and Rs 2 for 50 mark.

�We have already apprised the Board authorities to increase the amount but they turned a deaf ear� said some of the disgruntled examiners while talking to The Sangai Express.

The examiners said that they have been rendering the service since May 3 daily from 9 am to 5 pm, but till today no assurance for enhancing the amount has come forth and consequent upon it they have decided to stop examining any more answer scripts.

Feeling the pinch of discrimination, they complained that the Council of Higher Secondary Examination awards Rs 5 per answer script for 100 marks subject besides providing refreshment while correcting the answer scripts of the Higher Secondary examination.

Jolted with the sudden development, the Controller of Examination of the Board L Rajmohan and other officials rushed to TG School complex to pacify the irate examiners and assured them that their grievances would be looked into after holding a meeting.

But the agitated examiners stuck to their demand for hiking the remunerations to Rs 5 per script for 100 marks papers and Rs 4 per script for 50 marks papers apart from increasing co-ordination work charge to Rs 2.2 for 100 marks and to Rs 1.50 for 50 marks papers.

They also flatly rejected the written assurance given by the Board officials contending that it was not concrete as the proposed meeting might reject their demand.

Finding no way to convince the agitating teachers, the Board officials left the scene saying that the matter would be brought to the notice of the authorities concerned of the Government.

Meanwhile, Controller of Examination, BSEM L Rajmohan in a statement made available to the press has fervently appealed to all the examiners to end their agitation for the sake of the academic careers of the students.

If the results of the examination cannot be declared on time, it would have serious impact on the career of the students as well as in maintaining the academic calendar, he said.

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