Despite the fact that the results are delayed, examiners on assessment duty got hung up for two hours due to another technical glitch on Monday, as they the server did not accept the log in request for the on-screen evaluation of Mumbai university final-year papers. The beginning of the so-called “four non-instructional days” was off to a quite vague start.
As claimed by the teachers, the reason for the server to be down was because many were trying to log in at the same time and over-crowding caused enough traffic for the glitch to take place. The officiating Director of Board of Examination Deepak Wasave explained that it was during 10 am and 11.40 am when the server was down, but forth this time, processes soon became smooth.
Despite the government’s appointment of an assessing officer providing a notice to the service provider to smoothen the process of assessment, the server problem still caused a chaos. On July 22, Vinayak Dalvie, the officer on special duty to MU, demanded the provider to clear all technical problems quickly though a written word.
On July 21, the varsity made an announcement that said that July 24 to July 27 are non-instructional days, when regular classes remained suspended so as to aid teachers to concentrate only on assessment, for the time being. The first day itself, 5,023 teachers took up the job and corrected 95,537 answer scripts, the highest number so far. Deepak Wasave encouraged, “We request the teachers to continue with their efforts so that we can meet the July 31 deadline set by the governor.”
To boost the excitement and efficiency that the teachers are providing, Wasave claimed, the university will be increasing the remuneration offered. From the initial offer of Rs 8 and Rs 10 per paper, the teachers have climbed up to Rs 16 and Rs 20. Wasave also ensures, “We will also clear the pending payments to the assessors within three working days.”
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