The appointment of 65,439 candidates who qualified Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) of Jharkhand in the month of May this year is likely to remain on the backburner for quite some more time. After jostled by the domicile issue, the policy for the same is yet to be formulated; the Human Resources Department (HRD) has come up with another contentious issue.
The Department feels that the issue of 17,600 disqualified candidates due to minute mistakes made by them during the examination need to be addressed first. The examinees were declared disqualified as they did not fill up their answer sheets correctly with their personal details such as date of birth etc.
Talking to The Pioneer, HRD Minister Geetashree Oraon on Thursday said, “I have already issued directives to Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) on releasing the result of these 17,600 candidates. Thereafter, decision on appointment of teachers will be taken.”
Ironically the Department is putting blame on the invigilators for the mistakes made. Whereas, on the hindsight this may open the Pandora box and delay the much needed appointments in the schools of the State lurching in the want to desired number of teachers.
“It was the fault of the invigilators that they overlooked the wrong mentioned basic details filled up by the candidates in the answer sheets such as name, roll number and date of birth. So, HRD minister has asked JAC on what is the difficulty in rechecking the papers of these candidates who have been failed because of invigilator’s ignorance,” an officer of HRD said. JAC is supposed to submit the report within a week.
On the other hand, Principal of a state government school said that the responsibility of an invigilator during any examination is to check whether the candidate has filled the required detail box or not and not to verify that whether the same candidate has mentioned correct information or not. Giving a logical reason on this complication the Principal exclaimed, “To some extent invigilators are careless but in case of examinees and that too for a teaching post it is unthinkable. It is no where justified that candidates write wrong information and then blame invigilators for overlooking their technical mistake. It happens in every examination but nowhere such kind of probe has been ordered or clarification sought.”
A senior officer of JAC too supported this principal’s opinions. He said, “If a TET aspirant can do such a blunder then it is not fair to blame the invigilator.” However, the officials paid ignorance about the letter sent by HRD. “We have not received any such report,” JAC Joint Secretary AK Jha.