CHENNAI: The first-ever online test for laptop instructors in government faculties, performed by the Teachers Recruitment Board (TRB) on Sunday, was marred using server problems. The exam became behind schedule in numerous places, including Sivaganga, Salem, Nagapattinam, Madurai, and Tirunelveli. TRB has introduced that it might re-examine candidates who have been no longer able to seem for the exam and for people who couldn’t complete the test due to technical glitches. Information approximately the re-exam date and time will be sent via SMS to the candidates, TRB has stated. The board will select 816 pc teachers for government faculties in Tamil Nadu based totally on this test. At KSR College of Engineering in Tiruchengode in Namakkal district, the check has not been conducted due to server issues.
“Officials assured us that the examination would be performed inside the afternoon; however, whilst we again in the afternoon, they started the examination on the center has been postponed,” stated Kothandapani, a candidate from the center. Engineering faculties were mostly selected as exam centers. In the Sivaganga district, many candidates were disregarded from the list, and they couldn’t write the examination. In Chennai, Kancheepuram, Vellore, and a few other districts, the exam went off smoothly. G M Shankar, who took the examination at St Joseph Engineering College in Old Mamallapuram near Chennai, said the computer-based totally check became smooth. “But the questions have been a chunk twisted and hard to reply,” he said.
The test had one hundred thirty questions about computer technological know-how and 10 questions on psychology and widespread information. Many candidates demanded a copy of answers to make sure transparency. “In a few preceding checks, TRB used to provide a replica of the solution script to ensure transparency. For this check but it wasn’t given. They ought to email the answers to the candidates after the examination is over like they do for NET and banking checks,” said M Prabha, a candidate from Vellore. Officials said the exam turned into conducted without a hitch in 18 of 26 districts. “About 25,000 of the 30,000 candidates finished the exam. In eight districts, we had a few technical glitches,” officers said. In destiny, the board will make all efforts to prevent such troubles,” stated an official involved in carrying out the take a look at. NSEIT, a subsidiary of India Limited’s National Stock Exchange, is in the price of conducting the pc-primarily based on-line check.
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Two of the seven test dams across Palar River in the Kancheepuram district would be geared up to get hold of and shop water via July-cease. The test dams are the primary to be built across the Palar in the last 161 years for the reason that Anaicut changed into constructed across the river in Thirumalaichery village in Vellore. The Anaicut was constructed to divert water to the Kaveripakkam tank and surrounding regions. Nearly 80% of the check dams’ construction paintings throughout the river at Valayur and Eur Vallipuram in the Kancheepuram district have been finished. While the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) funded the Rs 32.50 crore check dam task at Valayur, which’s 1.5 km from the seaside, the check dam at Eur Vallipuram turned into delivered below NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) and constructed for Rs 30.95 crore.
The mission, scheduled to be completed inside a year, began mid-February. The authorities, however, expedited the construction and could complete it in a record time of six months. “The take a look at dams would be completed by way of the stop of July. The structure will receive and save the rainwater from the following monsoon,” stated a senior legitimate of the general public works department (PWD). The test dams had been designed to harness 9.57 million liters (MLD) of water and supply it to IGCAR and surrounding villages. “The structures would hold water up to three to five km of the upstream and rejuvenate the aquifers for a radius of 5.5km. There might be enough water for each irrigation and drinking purpose within the future,” said the legit. The projects were conceived as a part of a scheme to mitigate floods and drought.
The authorities stated they had proposed 5 greater such initiatives upstream of the river as crucial and semi-vital groundwater zones along the route to faucet the surface and sub-floor water to balance the deficit within the surrounding regions. “We are waiting for the investment to take in 5 more check dams,” said some other reputable The tasks also are geared toward improving consuming water delivery schemes to Chennai outer edge and concrete areas, south Chennai metropolitan regions and surrounding villages, besides feeding the irrigation tanks and water our bodies in Kancheepuram district.
