Granting an interim stay on the publication of results of the Teachers
Recruitment Board (TRB) examination for Tamil subject for direct
recruitment of PG Assistants (2012-13), the HC has directed the TRB Chairman
to appear before it on Sept 16. It also castigated the authorities for setting
erroneous questions in the examination for filling up 605 vacancies which was
conducted on July 21.
A candidate S Vijayalakshmi (35) from Madurai moved the court stating that
there were a lot of printing and typographical errors in Question Booklet B,
which she was given and informed the hall supervisor about it. Later when she compared the questions in Booklets A, C and D, she found that there were no
mistakes in them.
On July 29, the TRB published the keys. When she represented to the TRB that
candidates must be awarded grace marks for questions which contained
errors, the Board did not respond to it.
Petitioner’s counsel J Jeyakumar contended that the mistakes are not mere
typographical errors but vital enough to the extent of changing the entire
meaning of the question and the meaning of the provided answers. He
submitted a copy of the Question Booklet B to the court.
Justice S Nagamuthu, who admitted the petition, was surprised that there
were 47 mistakes in the 150-objective type question paper. .
During the hearing, the government pleader agreed that there were mistakes in the question paper. But the government pleader said the students who claimed to be postgraduates could always apply reason and analytical brain to overcome the problem of comprehension of the small printing mistakes and should come out with right options. Pulling up the government side, Justice Nagamuthu said Reading aloud the erroneous questions,"Do you know Tamil has been recognised as a semmozhi (classical language). Are you not ashamed to setsuch a question paper with lot of mistakes and errors?" "We are in Tamil Nadu. The question paper is for recruiting Tamil teachers to work in Tamil Nadu. If the question is not clear, how can we expect the students to understand them and give their reply?," he further asked. If there are one or two mistakes, it is okay. But one third of the question paper is wrong. To err is human, but this is too much,
The judge by an interim order stayed the publication of the results of the Tamil paper and directed the TRB Chairman to appear in person on Sept 16
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