The remuneration for evaluators who check answer sheets of UP Board High School and Intermediate examinations is being planned to be increased after 24 years, from ₹1 to ₹14 per copy.
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State Bureau, Prayagraj. Preparations have been made to increase the remuneration of evaluators who conduct random checking (audits) of evaluated answer sheets of UP Board High School and Intermediate examinations from ₹1 to ₹14 per copy.
Along with this, a proposal has also been sent by the Director of Secondary Education, Dr. Mahendra Dev, to the Special Secretary of Secondary Education to increase the daily allowance of external examiners from ₹20 to ₹100.
Earlier, in 2001, the remuneration of evaluators was increased to ₹1 per answer sheet.
For the evaluation of answer sheets in 2026, UP Board Secretary Bhagwati Singh appointed principals as evaluators with the aim of ensuring quality evaluation. Several principals opposed this decision, but the board stated that it was necessary to ensure fair and high-quality assessment.
The proposal had already been sent earlier.
Meanwhile, considering the remuneration of ₹1 per answer sheet for evaluators to be too low, the board secretary had sent a proposal to the director of education to increase it to ₹14 per answer sheet. Along with this, a proposal was also sent to raise the limit of the daily allowance payable to external centre examiners for examination-related duties.
In this regard, the Director of Secondary Education has sent a proposal to the Special Secretary to increase the daily allowance of external examiners from ₹20 per day (maximum ₹300) to ₹100 per day (maximum ₹1500) for ‘A’ category cities and from ₹16 per day (maximum ₹240) to ₹80 per day (maximum ₹1200) for ‘B’ and ‘C’ category cities. Once approved, the remuneration and daily allowance will be increased.