Click to play videoChennai: In Chennai, 60 aspirants of the Tamil Nadu Uniformed Service failed to make the cut by one correct answer. Everyone knows that what the students wrote is the right answer but the examiners say insist the answer is wrong.
The question was: Who was the first Governor General of Independent India. Among the options were Lord Mountbatten.
Even a school student would know its Lord Mountbatten but strangely enough, the Tamil Nadu Uniformed Service Recruitment Board got it wrong. And that too in the answer key to a recruitment exam for sub-inspectors. The result - 60 aspirants failed to reach the cut off by one mark despite answering correctly.
One of the candidates, Rajesh (name changed to protect identity) says, "We came with a lot of hopes. We are qualified actually, but because of somebody's carelessness about 60 to 80 of our careers are a question mark now."
Some of the aspirants who lost out may not even be able to appear for the test next year as they would have passed the age-limit. Their repeated appeals to the board have not yielded any results yet.
Rajesh adds, "We hope that the Board responds positively to our grievances - at least on grounds of mercy."
But rectifying the mistake would be difficult. Many aspirants who got the answer wrong and yet passed the cut off by a single mark are now in uniform. Any action would put their jobs at risk.
The Board officials are still waiting for more representations from candidates to take up the matter and they have assured the aspirants that any mistakes on their part will be rectified - but how exactly would that be is a question though.
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