BHOPAL: A section of professors on the roster for election duty is up in arms after it was learnt that a sweeper has been appointed presiding officer of a polling station and that some teachers have been told to report to him.Professors told TOI that they are worried about working under such “bizarre situations”. “It is embarrassing that Class IV employees have been appointed presiding officers while senior professors are asked to work under them,” said Prof Kailash Tyagi, president of Madhya Pradesh College Professors Association.TOI has a copy of a poll duty letter sent to a government college in Bhopal according to which a visually challenged professor has been appointed presiding officer. He told TOI he had no clue how he was expected to carry out such a job.An EC official said employees below Class III can’t be appointed as presiding officers. “Presiding officers and polling officers are classified according to pay scale, post and rank. The rulebook says that gazette officials should be deployed as presiding officers. If that’s not possible, only officials working in a supervisory capacity can be deployed as presiding officers. Also, the presiding officer should be of a higher scale or grade than the polling officers,” he said.The MP College Professors’ Association has requested collectors and the state election commission to change the roster. In his letter, Tyagi has mentioned that in 2013 Jabalpur HC had said that senior officers must not be asked to work under juniors. “Even a sweeper... has been made a presiding officer. Now, think about the professor who has to work under him,” said Tyagi.