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New Indian Express
01-05-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Petitioners list allegations of Group-I test ‘irregularities'
HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court on Wednesday continued hearing multiple petitions alleging irregularities in the conduct and evaluation of the Group-1 Mains Examination held from October 21 to 27, 2024. Justice Namavarapu Rajeshwar Rao, presiding over the single judge bench, heard the matter for over two hours before adjourning it to Thursday. Petitioners, including K Parasharamulu of Shivanagar in Siddipet, sought a judicial inquiry into alleged discrepancies in exam centre allocation, hall ticket manipulation, and evaluation procedures. Senior advocates Surender and Vidyasagar represented the petitioners. The petitioners claimed hall ticket numbers were altered between the preliminary and mains stages to influence centre allocation. 'Hall ticket numbers are never changed irrespective of the exam centre. The changes raise serious doubts about the integrity of the process,' they argued. They also pointed to an unusually high success rate at centres 16 to 19, with over 600 candidates seated close to one another reportedly scoring identical marks. Most selected female candidates were from centres 18 and 19, with the selection method not clearly explained. Further allegations included the use of underqualified evaluators, mainly degree college lecturers, who were instructed to assess one paper every five minutes. Concerns were also raised about evaluators' proficiency in Telugu, potentially disadvantaging candidates who wrote in the language.
Time of India
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Group I exam: Aspirants moves Telangana HC on ‘irregularities'
Hyderabad: A division bench of Telangana high court on Wednesday refused to interfere with the single judge order related to appointments to the Group I posts for which an examination was conducted by TGPSC. The court directed the petitioners in a writ appeal to approach the single judge hearing similar matters. After the division bench directed the petitioners to approach the single judge hearing the matter, Justice Namavarapu Rajeshwar Rao took up the writ appeal and similar petitions and posted the matter to Thursday for further hearing. The petitioners contended that there were irregularities in conducting the examination and in allotting centres to certain candidates. They alleged that candidates who were seated side by side during the examination scored the same marks in the final results announced by TGPSC. They also contended that there were irregularities in allotting woman candidates to certain centres exclusively for women. The petitioners also challenged the evaluation process, stating that candidates with certain hall ticket numbers cleared the examination with merit scores, while several candidates who wrote the exam in Telugu medium scored very low. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Gonzaga: New Container Houses (Take A Look At The Prices) Container House Search Now Undo In response, the judge asked the counsel for TGPSC if a key was supplied to the evaluators in English, Telugu, and Urdu languages for their better understanding of the answers to the respective questions. The judge also sought details of how many evaluators who evaluated the answer scripts were proficient in the Telugu language and how many candidates who wrote the examination in Telugu qualified. In response, the counsel for the TGPSC submitted that since the examination was in descriptive form, no key would be supplied, and only subject experts were picked for the evaluation of the answer scripts. Further, responding to the contentions of the petitioners, the TGPSC counsel informed the court that a vicious campaign was going on to derail and delay the entire recruitment process. "The whole idea is to scuttle the process. But we will satisfy the court on the issue in confidentiality," the counsel informed the court.
The Hindu
28-04-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
TGPSC files appeal against single judge order staying Group-I appointment orders
The Telangana State Public Service Commission on Monday (April 28) filed a petition appealing against the single judge order which stayed issuing of appointment letters to the candidates selected for Group-I services. The appeal petition filed by the TGPSC is likely to be heard in a day or two. The hearing of the writ petition seeking judicial inquiry into the evaluation of Group-I services, in which the bench of Namavarapu Rajeshwar Rao passed interim direction staying issuing of appointment orders, was posted to Wednesday. In the appeal petition filed by TGPSC Additional Secretary and Nodal officer (Legal) R. Sumathi, a direction was sought to suspend the single judge order. Stating that the recruitment process had to be taken to logical conclusion, the Commission contended that the single judge order put the entire recruitment process in jeopardy seriously affecting aspirations of the candidates who successfully completed the exam. Some of the respondents, who are serving government employees, had 'abused their official access and resources to attempt to extract and compile details about individual evaluators in violation of service conduct rules,' the appellant said. According to the Commission, these respondents made 'highly hypothetical and baseless allegations without any basic material proof'. The appellant made it clear that there was no evidence to confirm that same persons evaluated both the Telugu and English medium papers. There was no bias or language-based discrimination as alleged by the respondents, the Commission stated. In enhance transparency in evaluation of answer scripts, the Chief Examiner Committees were constituted for each paper comprising at least two subject specialists of national repute. 'Valuation was carried out in adherence to strict confidentiality protocols,' the appeal petition said. 'The marks were awarded on designated barcode sheets without revealing candidate identity,' the Commission explained.
