HC stays re-exam by Teachers Recruitment Board for Tamil PG assistants

MADURAI: A division bench of the Madras high court on Tuesday granted interim stay on the directive of its single judge to the Teachers Recruitment Board (TRB) to conduct re-examination of postgraduate (PG) assistants in Tamil.
The division bench comprising justices M Jaichandren and S Vaidyanathan which granted the stay also ordered notice to the opposite side and posted the matter by two weeks.
On October 1 in a blow to the TRB the single judge S Nagamuthu had passed orders directing the TRB to conduct the re-examination of PG assistants in Tamil before November 11 in view of the enormous errors found in the B-series of the question paper.
Of the 31,983 candidates who had appeared for the examination, 8,002 were given question papers (B-series) which had 47 wrong questions. The issue came to light after a candidate J Antony Clara, 28, of Trichy moved the court by way of filing a writ petition, which was followed by another writ filed by S Vijalakshmi of Madurai.
When the matter came up before the division bench on Tuesday, the advocate general (AG) A L Somayaji submitted to the court that the TRB was not responsible for the error.
The mistake was of the printers approved by the central government. Besides to sort this problem, TRB had suggested three methods, which were not accepted by the court and instead re-examination was ordered, the AG told.
Following it, the stay was granted by the high court's Madurai bench .