Letters to The Editor — January 21, 2026

The SIR exercise

The beforehand leafage report, “SC flags ‘stress and strain’ by SIR to Bengal’s people” (January 20), reminded maine of my acquisition successful Chennai immoderate years ago. The enumerator had noted my property arsenic 55 years and my father’s arsenic 65. My daughter’s sanction was misspelt. When I pointed each these retired to the idiosyncratic sitting earlier the computer, helium said I could spell to the tahsildar’s bureau for corrections. The mistakes remained uncorrected. When it was clip to vote, the predetermination serviceman successful the booth understood my predicament and allowed each 3 of america to vote. The Election Commission of India indispensable beryllium much superior successful dealing with voters.

S.V. Venkatakrishnan,

Singapore

Recruitment, test

Many aspirants who wrote the introspection connected December 27, 2025, conducted by the Tamil Nadu Teachers Recruitment Board (TRB) for the station of Assistant Professor/College recruitment (2,708 posts), judge that the descriptive component, particularly the effort section, leaves them vulnerable. The allocation of 50 marks for a azygous effort raises superior concerns, arsenic it has the imaginable to importantly change the wide people of a candidate.

There are worries that determination could beryllium foul play arsenic bribery and favouritism are said to person been a origin successful the interrogation enactment process successful erstwhile TRB recruitments.

Swetha T.,

Chennai