The West Bengal Primary School Education Board has admitted earlier than the Calcutta High Court that not all the over 20 lakh candidates who sat for a Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) in 2014 got one mark for a mistaken query, which result in a discrimination. The Board’s counsel, nevertheless, claimed that there was no criminality concerned in it.
A single bench order had directed a CBI probe into the appointment of 269 candidates, who obtained the good thing about the extra one mark for the misguided query, and termination of their service as main academics in state government-sponsored and aided faculties.
In an enchantment difficult that order, the Board’s counsel submitted earlier than a division bench presided over by Justice Subrata Talukdar that there was no motive for ordering a probe by the central company.
Admitting that discrimination was dedicated as not each candidate within the recruitment examination obtained that one mark, Lakshmi Gupta, main board counsel claimed earlier than the bench, additionally comprising Justice Lapita Banerji, that there was no criminality concerned within the act.
Gupta submitted that 2,800-odd candidates agitated after the outcomes of the 2014 TET had been declared alleging error in some questions and out of them, 269 had been discovered in any other case eligible besides that they had been quick by one mark to cross the check.
He additional said {that a} committee of specialists which was requested by the board to test whether or not the questions for the examination had been appropriate had discovered an error in a single and proposed awarding one extra mark.Gupta submitted that the extra mark was given to 269 candidates since they had been one mark quick to clear the examination.
The courtroom noticed that the chain of circumstances as said by the board lawyer seems very fortuitous.
Appearing for the affected candidates who had moved the excessive courtroom difficult the appointments, senior advocate Bikash Bhattacharya earlier questioned the factors for figuring out the agitators who got one mark additional.
He submitted {that a} correct investigation is required to disclose all the pieces within the matter. The bench adjourned listening to within the matter until July 7.
With inputs from PTI.
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