Deccan Chronicle: Chennai:
Tuesday, May 07, 2013.
A teacher who
appeared for the Teacher Eligibility Test sued the TRB (Teacher Recruitment
Board) for causing severe mental agony to him by not giving correct answers in
the RTI reply for three questions which appeared in the exam. The court ordered
the TRB official to pay Rs 5,000 as compensation to the litigant.
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Arasakumaran of Karur filed a complaint with the Karur consumer court in
December 2012 saying that he took the economics exam as a part of the TET exam
in May 2012 and hoped he would get through and secure a government job.
“When I
verified the answers with the blue print released by TRB online, I was
surprised to see that in the case of three questions, two answers were given
for each question and in the case of another set of three questions, answers
were not given. I sent an RTI petition to TRB regarding the confusion in these
answers and also attached a guide that gives the correct answer. I also sought
details on appointment of teachers through caste-based reservation,” he said in
his petition.
Since the TRB
official failed to respond to Arasakumaran’s RTI petition within the stipulated
period, he moved the consumer court seeking compensation for the mental agony
he suffered. He argued that if he had received the information on time, he
would have approached the officials and could have landed the job.
Ruling that
non-furnishing of information to Arasakumaran amounted to deficiency of
service, consumer court judge P. Ramakrishnan and member P. Vishakan ordered
the public information officer to pay Rs 5,000 as compensation for the mental
agony caused to Arasakumaran and Rs 500 as litigation costs within two months.
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