HC orders notice to TNSET on plea to stay publication of list

The Madras High Court today ordered issue of notice to the member secretary of Tamil Nadu State-level Eligibility Test (TNSET) on a petition seeking staying of publication of the list of eligible candidates of TNSET 2016.

Justice Kalyanasundaram of the Court's Madurai Bench gave the direction on a writ petition filed by one A Sebastian Selvaraj of Tiruchirapalli, who took the exam.

The judge ordered notice to the member secretary of TNSET returnable within two weeks.

The petitioner submitted that he had scored 190 marks out of 350 in the test conducted, on February 21 this year, for getting posted as Assistant professor in colleges in the state.The cut off mark specified for Backward Classes was 192.
 

As there were five irrelevant questions in part three of the question paper, the petitioner said he had attended all five of them and yet he was not allotted ten marks for them. He further said his actual score was 200 out of 350 and he should have been called for certificate verification.

When the petitioner had applied for re-evaluation and certificate verification, officials declined his application on the grounds that he did not secure the required cut off marks.

Hence, the petitioner prayed the court to intervene and direct the officials to re-evaluate his paper, allot cut off marks due for him and call him for certificate verification besides staying the publication of the list of eligible candidates.

Mother Teresa Women's University (MTWU) in Kodaikanal is the nodal agency for conducting this year's SET.