The state primary education board on Friday published the results of the Teacher’s Eligibility Test (TET) held in December, 2022.
The president of the adhoc committee that has been constituted to run the board said 1,50,491 candidates out of 6,19,102 examinees qualified in the written test, which constitutes one of the parameters for screening teaching job aspirants in government-aided primary schools.
Committee president Goutam Paul told a news conference about the process the board followed to arrive at results. “We had given each examinee a copy of the OMR sheet which was green in colour. The board retained the original copy, which was pink in colour. This was done so the candidates could tally their answers with the model answers the board uploaded on its website,” said Goutam Paul.
On January 31, the board announced through a notice that the original OMR of each TET examinee “is fully protected under the safe custody” of the board.
It issued the clarification a day after Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of Calcutta High Court asked the Enforcement Directorate to question the candidates whose purported OMR (optical mark recognition) sheet photocopies were found in the house of Kuntal Ghosh, the Trinamul youth leader from Hooghly who is now in custody.
The board’s ad hoc committee president met education minister Bratya Basu on Friday to hand over the details of the TET results. Basu praised the board for taking transparent steps.
Speaking during a news conference Basu said: “If any candidate gives a copy of the OMR sheet that the board has shared with him, to a middleman, then the board cannot be held responsible for that”.
“A total of 177 candidates ranked among the top ten in order of marks they scored,” said Paul.
One of them, Ina Singha, told news channel ABP Ananda that the board adopted fair practices in the evaluation of scripts following protests by a section of youths. “I hope merit will be prioritised this time,” said Singha.
