The Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board has been asked by the Madras high court to exercise caution in getting expert opinion while deciding examination answer keys. Judge r sureskumar

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TN: Exercise care in preparing answer keys, says HC
Kaushik Kannan | TNN | Updated: Aug 29, 2020, 10:04 IST
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MADURAI: The Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board has been asked by the Madras high court to exercise caution in getting expert opinion while deciding examination answer keys.
Granting relief to two candidates — T S Abinesh and K Rajukumar — who had marked the correct answers in the written examination conducted on January 12, justice R Suresh Kumar said that the experts were unable to differentiate between ‘devaluation’ and ‘demonetization’ of currency.
The judge observed that the question in controversy was – ‘Indian rupee was devalued ——- times since 1947? and the options given were ‘(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 2 (D) 1’. The judge noted that although in the preliminary answer key published by the board was ‘A – three times’ was declared as the correct answer, in the final answer key ‘B – four times’ was mentioned as the correct answer. Though the economics text book referred by the petitioners as well as the three experts reveals that the currency was devalued only thrice, the additional advocate general K Chellapandian submitted that the experts had arrived at the correct answer as four times by taking in to account the demonetization done by the Centre in 2016.
The judge said devaluation is a deliberate reduction of the rate at which domestic currency is exchanged for another currency while demonetisation is stripping a currency of its status as legal tender.
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