After over a year’s delay, the Central Board of Secondary Education has begun the release of payment, through its Integrated Payment System (IPS), to its Board evaluators, Head Examiners, Assistant Head Examiners and Observers for Term 2 Board examinations conducted in April 2022. Teachers of private CBSE schools across India, who had evaluated answer papers, complained they were not paid the honorarium for many months.
Over the past year, the CBSE had issued several circulars urging evaluation centres to file beneficiary details, and pushed the date of payment citing multiple reasons.
“I had reached out to multiple helpline numbers and sent mails to CBSE but got no response from them. The centres would just ask us to wait it out or contact CBSE. They (centres) would say they have filed all account details and it was up to CBSE to pay. Soon we would see another circular from them (CBSE) stating there are multiple errors in filing details and it needs to be re-done. We had no clarity on how long the wait would be to get paid for a job we did diligently,” a CBSE school teacher in Chennai pointed out.
