Notwithstanding the assurance given in the wake of large-scale bungling in the manual evaluation last year, the Higher Education Department now appears to be hesitating about e-evaluation of annual Plus Two papers from this year, said reliable sources in the department.
The department had sought the help of the Information Technology (IT) Department to determine the modalities for e-evaluation, the agency to be picked up for this job and the conditions to be laid out before obtaining the expression of interest (EoI) from the concerned agency.
However, no suggestion has so far come from the IT Department, forcing the Higher Education Department to have second thoughts about initiating e-evaluation. Officials of the department have no clues on the reason for such inordinate delay either.
The Principal Secretary, Higher Education, had a meeting in this regard with the district Collectors on the last day of the Collectors’ Conference here in the presence with the Chief Secretary. The Chief Secretary is yet to review the Plus Two examination process, the sources said.
In view of the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) having come under heavy criticism for the poor and faulty evaluation of Plus two papers of around 3.25 lakh students last year, it is going be a tough job for it to evaluate examination papers manually this year since the number of students appearing in the annual examinations scheduled to begin from March has gone up by as much as 75,000.