Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Board of Secondary Education (BSE) has demanded stringent action against the teachers who participated in a protest in front of the board office alleging gross irregularities in the special Odisha Teacher Eligibility Test (OTET) examination and demanding that they be given grace marks and declared qualified.
In a letter to the director of Elementary Education on Tuesday, the BSE secretary demanded strict action against the agitating teacher.
In the letter read, “After the publication of the results, many teachers who failed to qualify in the test are coming to the BSE office from 11.01.2023 and demonstrating with a demand to qualify them even with additional grace marks. From 11.01.2023, every day around 200 teachers from across the state are assembling in front of the BSE office at Bajrakabati Road in Cuttack and shouting slogans with an irrational demand of qualifying them even though they have not scored the qualifying marks.”
“To make things transparent, BSE Odisha has uploaded the scoring keys and the OMR answer sheets on the BSE website where everyone can view their results and also can verify the correctness with the help of the scoring keys. Their presence is creating a lot of disturbances in the office work, especially when we are going to conduct one OSSTET exam and another OTET exam during this month,” the BSE secretary stated in his letter.
The BSE sectary has also urged the Director of Elementary Education to initiate disciplinary action against the agitating teachers for misconduct and dereliction of duty.
