Bhubaneswar, April 6: About 75 per cent of the teachers reported on the first day of the two-day training fore-evaluation of Plus Two answer sheets for science stream today.

This year, Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) has engaged 4,000 examiners for the e-evaluation of four lakh answer sheets of 94,952 students.

The scanning of answer sheets is going on at the Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies here.

"We have substitutes, who also are experienced teachers, ready for the work to ensure that the evaluation work does not get hampered," said CHSE chairman Basudev Chhatoi. He added that teachers would be trained for the next two days on the e-evaluation process using dummy answer sheets.

Sources said that some technical glitches were experienced during the training session today leading to apprehensions among the participants. "Many of us logged in with the assigned password, but the page did not open," said a senior teacher.

Chattoi said that technical glitches were experienced due to some issues in the server. The problem was, however, resolved and there were no other problem.

Officials, handling the technical side of the process, said many teachers, who are new to computers, have been finding it difficult to adapt to the system.

"The number of answer sheets are huge and there may be issues but nothing major. Some teachers are hesitant to cope with the new technologies and keep coming up with complaints just to avoid any responsibility," said a senior official.

About 40 per cent of teachers engaged for e-evaluation had applied for leave citing medical issues. This had made the council shoot off letters to the teachers to join the process immediately. The teachers were also threatened of disciplinary action.

The council had made it clear that absentees citing medical leaves will be referred to a team of doctors who will examine the absentees.

The scanning of sheets, which was planned to be done by the examiners, was later entrusted to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). These scanned copies will be sent to the servers at 40 evaluation centres online where the chief examiners would download the papers and distribute them among the examiners.