The West Bengal Board of Primary Education on Friday published on its website the scores obtained by successful TET (Teachers’ Eligibility Test) 2014 candidates in compliance with a Calcutta High Court directive.
But the names of some candidates against the marks mentioned on the list were missing.
The board, while admitting the errors, said they would issue a clarification soon.
The board published the scores of 1,24,952 candidates who had written that TET, held in 2015 following notification in 2014.
It took the board seven years to inform the candidates of their scores and that too following a nudge from the court.
“We have already published the scores of the TET 2017 candidates who wrote TET in 2021. Now, the scores of close to 1.25 lakh candidates have been published,” said Goutam Paul, president of the ad hoc committee that runs the board.
The board has published the marks while the process of submission of online applications by the successful candidates of TET 2014 and 2017 to take part in the interviews is on.
The interview is the final stage of screening before obtaining jobs as assistant teachers in government-aided primary schools (from classes I to V).
Several teachers wondered how the board would upload the scores of the 2014 candidates, considering that the court, in September, ordered the CBI to investigate alleged irregularities in the destruction of OMR answer sheets of TET 2014 candidates.
“We have recycled the OMR sheet. …..Many are asking where did we then get the data from? The score of each TET candidate is stored in the digitised form. We can retrieve it whenever we wish,” Paul said.
But a scan of the uploaded list shows that the digitised store was insufficient to give complete data.
Why were the names missing? “We will clarify in a day or two why this has happened….Publishing the marks of close to 1.25 lakh candidates amounts to carrying out a massive work,” Paul said.
When asked whether there was a rule specifying what would be the duration for which the answer scripts would be preserved, Paul said: “It is to be decided by the respective ad-hoc committee of the board whether they intend to preserve the OMR sheet for last five years or ten years. There is no hard and fast rule for this.”
The board on Friday said they would allow only the TET 2014 candidates to take part in the interview for 3,929 posts in compliance with a court order
“For the remaining 7,738 posts, TET 2014 and 2017 candidates will able to take part in the interview process,” said a board official.
On Thursday, the board published the list of reserved category candidates who have scored 82 in TET 2014 and have been declared as TET qualified following a court order.