While teachers have always been paid by the university for setting final-year question papers as well as for assessment, the same was dropped in summer 2020 examinations session as it was conducted in the online mode Mumbai University (MU) will be paying the staff, both teaching and non-teaching, of its affiliated colleges for their work in online exams. Appropriately, an article was placed before members of Board of Examination and Evaluation (BoEE) where it was fixed that remuneration will be paid,” said a circular signed by the BoEE director, Vinod Patil, last week. It further states that the remuneration format will be restored once examinations are again held in offline mode. The lockdown implemented due to rising Covid-19 cases forced the MU and all affiliated colleges to conduct online exams and in multiple choice questions format.
