Due to a shortage of subject-specific teachers, the testing of SEE answer sheets is being delayed at most examination centers in Bara.
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375 candidates from 4 schools are taking the Secondary Education Examination (SEE) at the Bhola Secondary School Examination Center in Mahagadhimai Municipality-10, Ganjbhawanipur. However, the answer sheets of English and Nepali subjects, which were held here last Thursday and Friday respectively, have not been able to be checked.
Although the government, which aims to publish the results within a month, has set a deadline for checking the answer sheets of each subject within three days, the center heads have stated that there is a problem due to the shortage of subject-specific teachers.
‘The lack of time and the shortage of subject-specific teachers are making it difficult to check the answer sheets,’ said Bhola Secondary School Center Head Bhola Prasad Kuswaha, ‘We are struggling to find subject-specific teachers for the examination, and even when we try to call teachers from other schools, it is difficult to get them.’ He said that the work of checking the answer sheets could not be completed within the deadline even though they worked from 6 am to 9 pm.
There are 4 school examination centers in Kankali Secondary School of Simraungadh Municipality-6. 350 examinees are taking the exam there daily. There is a problem similar to the Ganjbhawanipur center. There are only 5 subject-specific teachers at the secondary school level in this school. ‘Even when 4 subject-specific teachers were mobilized to test the answer sheets of English subject on the first day, it was not possible,’ said Bidyananda Yadav, assistant center head of Kankali Secondary School Examination Center. ‘A teacher has tested a maximum of 40 answer sheets daily throughout the day.’
On Friday, he said that even though 8 teachers were mobilized to test the answer sheets of Nepali subject, they were not able to test within the specified time. ‘There is a shortage of subject teachers at the secondary level everywhere,’ he said, ‘The district is facing difficulties due to the shortage of subject teachers.’ He said that there is a shortage of teachers to conduct tests and the need to seal the answer sheets, submit them to the security agencies, and record the marks.’
The government has set a goal to test the answer sheets at the examination centers and bring the results within a month. However, the center heads say that the shortage of examiners (subject teachers) required for the test of the answer sheets has added to the challenge of testing the answer sheets on time. ‘This problem is not in a few examination centers,’ said center head Kuswaha, ‘There is a problem throughout the district.’ There are 30 examination centers in Bara.
Ashok Prasad Rauniyar, head of the education coordination unit, admits that there is a shortage of secondary level teachers for all subjects in the district. ‘We are testing those who are ‘merit’ and proficient in teaching, even at the primary and secondary school levels,’ he said.
According to Upendra Chaudhary, an employee of the administration branch of the Education Coordination Unit, Bara, 10,814 examinees from 163 community and private schools in the district are taking the exam at 30 examination centers across the district. Despite challenges in the management of examiners, answer sheets are being tested at all examination centers, he said. ‘There are only 169 subject-specific teachers at the secondary school level for all subjects in the district,’ he said, ‘while more than double the number of subject-specific teachers are required.’
