Cuttack, Feb. 18: Teachers protesting against various reforms, undertaken by the Board of Secondary Education for the upcoming matriculation exams, called off their agitation today following a discussion with minister of school and mass education Rabi Narayan Nanda.

The teachers, under the banner of the Odisha Secondary School Teachers’ Association, had launched an indefinite hunger strike to express displeasure against the board’s decision not to engage teachers as invigilators in their own schools and collect Rs 20 each as migration certificate fee from nearly five lakh students scheduled to take the matriculation exams starting February 25.

“The minister assured us that from next year, teachers would function as invigilators in their own schools while migration certificate fee would not be collected from all students,” said president of the association Indu Madhav Mohanty.