Title - Error in hall ticket leads candidates to wrong venue

A printing mistake on hall tickets brought candidates appearing for a Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) exam to a wrong venue in Selaiyur, Tambaram, on Sunday morning.Angry over not finding their roll numbers and allotted classrooms, they staged a protest and squatted on the road outside the venue. The test was cancelled and a re-examination will be held in two months, an official said.A national two-hour, objective-type written test was conducted on Sunday by RRB. The test was conducted across 37 venues in Chennai, including Bharath Engineering College (Bharath University) in Selaiyur. Only 2,304 candidates were to appear for the entrance test here, but an additional 1,000 plus students landed up.After the candidates were informed that they had come to the wrong venue, they protested at the venue. Some of them also damaged furniture. They then gathered on Agaram Then Main Road, blocking traffic for nearly an hour. Sunitha Vedantham, Chairman, RRB, Chennai, said a re-examination would be conducted within two months for the 3,000 candidates who came to the Selaiyur venue on Sunday.Ms. Vedantham said 19,272 candidates were to appear in 37 venues in Chennai. The proceedings were peaceful in the 36 other centres.