HC comes to rescue of teacher aspirant

The Madras High Court today directed the Tamil Nadu government to provide graduate assistant teacher post to a candidate who obtained BA Tamil degree with exemption to write the language papers on discontinuing her Bsc (IT) course after clearing the first year subjects.
During a voluntary vacation sitting, Justice Suresh Kumar of the Madurai Bench allowed the plea of petitioner N Chitra and rejected the contention of the Teachers Recruitment Board that she had not appeared for language papers in BA Tamil.
The petitioner submitted that she joined Bsc at a private college in Sivakasi and cleared the first year, including language Part I and II papers Tamil and English.

However, she switched to BA Tamil in the second year and was exempted by Madurai Kamaraj University from writing Part I and II language papers of the first year.
She directly appeared for major papers and passed them. Later, she got a B.Ed degree also and cleared Teacher Eligibility Test.
But the Teacher's Recruitment Board said she was not eligible to be appointed as teacher as she didn't clear the language papers in BA Tamil.
TRB did not consider the university's explanation that the method of joining a course in the second year directly was still in force.