Irresponsive checkbox in MVC page

I have a checkbox in a cshtml page. I have used jquery to manage the on change event. My event handler is called on load of the page. The handler looks like below:

$("#chkbox1").on('change', function () {
  checkAprvEligibility("M");
});

When the page is left idle for 5-10 minutes, the checkbox becomes irresponsive for a few seconds and hence doesnot perform the intended functionalities. The user has to click again or wait for a few seconds for the changes to reflect. Please let me know why is this happening?