The state primary education board will upload on its website model answers to all questions in the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET), which was held in January to recruit teachers for primary schools.

Candidates can raise objections if they think a model answer is not the right answer.

“About 2.5 lakh candidates had written the exam in January. We will upload the answers on our website before publishing the results. The results will be published before Durga Puja,” said Manik Bhattacharya, the president of the West Bengal Board of Primary Education.

“If any candidate lodges a complaint, our experts will go through it. If they find merit in the complaint, the answer script will be evaluated again,” the board official said.

The 150-marks paper had multiple-choice questions.

Board president Bhattacharay later told The Telegraph that they had introduced the system to make the evaluation more transparent. “This practice is followed in engineering and medical entrance exams as well. We want to be transparent,” he said.

A board official said they would later announce the time period when candidates could challenge the results.

Allegations of lack of transparency have dogged the teachers’ recruitment exercise.

The high court had, before the Assembly polls, stayed the recruitment of teachers at the primary (Class I-IV) and upper primary levels (Class V-VIII) following allegations that the process lacked transparency.

The court later vacated the stay on primary teachers’ recruitment on appeal from the state government.

An official in the school education department said they hoped the exercise of uploading the model answers on the board’s website and inviting challenges from aspiring teachers would preempt the possibility of future legal challenges and help the government complete the recruitment process at the earliest.

“The moment one files a case in court on the ground of lack of transparency, the process of appointment gets stalled for an indefinite period. The grouse of aspirants stemmed from the fact that the recruitment of teachers for primary schools had been stalled for years. We don’t want that to happen with this TET,” he said.

While announcing last week that the Bengal government would appoint over 32,000 teachers at the upper primary and primary levels by March 2022 based on the TET held in 2014 and 2015, the chief minister had said: “The appointments were stuck because of court cases.”

Board president Bhattacharya said the process of recruiting 10,500 teachers in the primary level, as announced by the chief minister, will start next week.