20 Jul, 2024
Calcutta HC Demands Digitized OMR Sheet in TET 2017 Dispute
The high court has directed the state primary education board to provide the digitized OMR sheet of a candidate who took the Teachers' Eligibility Test (TET) in 2017. This request comes after the candidate alleged that the hard copy of the OMR sheet, which the board had issued to her, did not belong to her.
Justice Amrita Sinha gave the order on Friday.
The test, designed to shortlist candidates for teaching positions in government-aided primary schools, was conducted in 2021 following a 2017 notification. Tina Mukhopadhyay, who took the TET, requested a hard copy of her OMR sheet from the board in April 2022 after she did not pass the exam.
Sudipta Dasgupta, the lawyer representing Mukhopadhyay, stated that they approached the court because the photocopy of the OMR sheet provided to Mukhopadhyay did not belong to her. On Friday, the board submitted a resolution to the court indicating that the hard copies of the TET 2017 answer scripts, the results of which were announced on January 10, 2022, had been destroyed under the instructions of the then board president, Manik Bhattacharya.
The board had issued a notice on January 20, 2022, announcing that OMR sheets for TET 2017 would be available to applicants who requested them by April 19, 2022.
The copy of the resolution said: “In spite of this, as per verbal instruction of the then board president, a letter was issued to the confidential section obstructing a recycling of OMR sheets while only preserving the data digitally.”
“The members of the new committee expressed their dissent on the matter and noted that the decision of scrapping TET-20-17 OMR sheets was singularly taken by the then president without any resolution of the ad-hoc committee.”
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