SSLC evaluators to be paid digitally in DK, Dharwad districts

Mangaluru: Keen on ushering in transparency in the payment of teachers undertaking evaluation of SSLC answer scripts, the department of public instruction has decided to digitise the transfer of funds to the evaluators on an experimental basis in Dakshina Kannada and Dharwad districts.
Coordinator for SSLC examination in Dakshina Kannada Shamanth told TOI, “The Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) has chosen these two districts for the pilot project.The pilot project was launched for the evaluation of the supplementary exams for SSLC. As many as 800 teachers in Dakshina Kannada will receive their payment online. Depending on the success of the pilot project, we will see if it can be implemented across the state for the next examination.”
Shamanth opined that the new system would save both the officials and evaluators considerable time. “When the payment was done manually, the evaluators had to provide details of their bank accounts, which then had to be verified through a visit to the teachers’ districts by officials. Consequently, it took several weeks for the money to be credited to the respective teachers’ account. Under the new system, the evaluator’s details are fed into the machine, and all that a teacher needs to do is to feed in the number of papers he or she has corrected and other information pertaining to their work. The bill of payment is then auto-generated, and payment credited to their accounts within three to four days.”
Since this is being tried on an experimental basis, evaluators have been asked to furnish details of their bank account both manually and digitally. The new system will apply to teachers from government, aided and unaided schools.
Meanwhile, sources in KSEEB said that results of the supplementary examination were likely to be announced in a week.