PATNA: Hundreds of Secondary Teacher Eligibility Test (STET) 2019-qualified candidates marched to Secretariat here on Wednesday and blocked the road for hours, alleging discrepancies in publication of results.
The protesters alleged they were left out of the merit list despite having qualified the test, while the ones who had not qualified the test have made it to the list.
Deepankar Gaurav, who was leading the protest, said he had qualified in mathematics, the result of which was announced in March this year, but excluded from the final merit list.
“While releasing the results, the education minister had said all the qualified candidates would get job as the number of qualified candidates was less than the required posts of teachers in government schools.
Yet, we have been left out of the merit list,” he asked.
The STET 2019 was conducted for 15 subjects by the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB).
The results of 12 subjects were declared in March and three more subjects on June 21.
As per the BSEB, 24,599 candidates have qualified in 12 subjects, including Paper 1 (classes IX and X) and Paper 2 (classes XI and XII), while 24,598 are on the merit list.
Altogether 30,675 are on the merit list in all 15 subjects against 37,447 vacancies.
Gaurav said, “As per the BSEB’s claim, just one qualified candidate has not found place on the merit list.
The fact, however, is that hundreds of candidates have been left out.
We have conducted a small survey of 350 STET-qualified candidates.
Of them, 40% are out of the list.
We will move Patna high court against the BSEB.
Besides, the lifetime validity of STET was also scrapped for 2019 candidates.” Another STET-qualified candidate, Bijendra Kumar, said he had scored 91 out of 150 marks in social science, but was excluded from the merit list while another aspirant, Shrawan Kumar Suman, was on the list despite scoring just 68 marks.
“It is nothing but injustice.
The BSEB should make cut-off list public,” he added.
Similar was the case with Anish Kumar, who had been left out of merit list despite scoring 82 in mathematics.
Education department’s additional chief secretary Sanjay Kumar said the department has drawn the attention of the BSEB chairman regarding the grievances of the candidates.
“There are confusions.
The matter will be sorted out in two days,” he said.
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