Lucknow, March 19 -- It is not easy being an evaluator, spending seven hours on the same six-inch wide benches on which students sit, and not even having an actual lunch break.

It has been two years since an hour-long lunch break was stipulated for evaluators but it continues to remain on paper, for in reality, there is no such thing as a specific lunch break.

Seated on student benches throughout the day, for over a fortnight, often leaves them with a back and knee ache. At some centres teachers complain of not even having proper arrangements for drinking water and clean washrooms.

UP Madhyamik Shikshak Sangh spokesperson, RP Mishra questioned that when teachers are working hard for the students throughout the day the least they can as...