Experts to find errors in questions

On a row of allegations against the questions and answers given in the examination conducted for the recruitment of 9,355 junior panchayat scretaries, the Telangana High Court on Wednesday directed the state government to refer the contentious questions in the recruitment exams to a committee of experts for a decision.

Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili directed the government to take a decision on adding marks to candidates on the suggestions of an experts’ committee.

The judge directed the government to hand over to the committee the final key which was published after the examination along with 23 questions, which were alleged to be wrong or were not translated.

Justice Shavili, while disposing of petitions relating to the alleged deviations in the recruitment process and examination, found mistakes in the question papers and in the final key published by the panchayat raj department.

He also found fult with the roster of reservations, sports quota and tribal quota.

Referring to objections on filling of posts in tribal areas, the state government submitted that the posts would be filled by percent tribal candidates. The court earlier recorded the state government’s contention that it followed the reservation roster and sports quota.

Counsels for the petitioners brought to the notice of the court that more than nine questions were wrongly answered by the department in the final key, and they mentioned that contrary to the recruitment notification more than 14 questions were not translated into Telugu. Mr Rahul Reddy, counsel, said that Telugu medium students could not attempt those questions and they lost 14 marks.