The 2013
exams for primary Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) were held valid by the
Calcutta High Court on Friday, rejecting a petition which was seeking the
cancellation of the exam.
The exam
led to 18,000 people getting jobs in primary schools. Advocate Bikash Ranjan
Bhattacharyya had moved the petition on behalf of a couple of people who had
not succeeded in the 2013 TET. Bhattacharyya had claimed that the primary
education department had held the TET unjust as it violated National Council
for Teacher Education (NCTE) norms. "The NCTE had drawn up a syllabus to
select primary schoolteachers. But most questions were not from the
syllabus," he had said. In 2012, the state primary education department
had issued a notification inviting applications for primary schoolteachers.
A few of the candidates who failed the
exam had filed an appeal before the court alleging the test conducted by the
West Bengal School Service Commission should be treated as invalid because it
did not comply with the guidelines laid down by NCTE..
Additional government
pleader L.K. Gupta had claimed the examination was "just and proper".
"The future of the 18,000 teachers will be uncertain if the court allows
the petition and cancels the exam," he further added. Justice Debangshu
Basak said in his verdict: "Since the petitioners failed to succeed in the
examination, they have no locus standi
to move any case in this regard."
Locus standi is a Latin phrase meaning “place to stand”.
It refers to whether or not someone has the right to be heard in court.
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