| Surjewala alleges irregularities in HTET exams, seeks judicial probe | | | Early Times Report
Chandigarh, July 6: Congress MP Randeep Singh Surjewala on Monday alleged large-scale irregularities in the Haryana Teacher Eligibility Test (HTET) for TGT and PRT levels, claiming that the examination process had been marred by broken seals on question paper packets, printing errors, and incomplete questions.
Surjewala sought a judicial inquiry by a sitting judge of the high court into the entire HTET examination process. In a statement, the Congress leader alleged that after irregularities reported in the HTET PGT (Level 3) examination held on July 4, more serious lapses surfaced during the TGT (Level 2) or Trained Graduate Level and PRT (Level 1) or Primary Teacher examinations conducted on July 5. He claimed that seals of question paper packets were found broken at several examination centres in various districts, including Rewari, Jhajjar, Rohtak, Faridabad and Ambala, raising concerns over the confidentiality of the examination.
He alleged that if question papers were received with broken seals, there was no guarantee they had not been leaked earlier.
The Congress leader further alleged that the TGT and PRT papers contained numerous errors, including missing underlined words, incomplete questions, incorrect translations, meaningless words, duplicate answer options and discrepancies between the Hindi and English versions of several questions.
Surjewala cited examples of questions with missing text, contradictory numerical values, incorrect mathematical expressions, repeated answer choices and wrongly numbered questions in Set B. He also alleged that questions numbered 145 to 148 were mistakenly printed as 45 to 48, creating confusion for candidates while filling the OMR sheets. He claimed that the last page of the paper was also incorrectly numbered. |
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