Gujarat junior clerk examination cancelled after query paper leak

By PTI

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat authorities’s aggressive examination for the recruitment of junior clerks was cancelled hours earlier than it was scheduled on Sunday over its query paper leak and police detained a suspect on this connection, the state panchayat examination board mentioned.

As many as 9.5 lakh candidates had registered for the examination for 1,181 posts which was to be held at 2,995 centres throughout the state.

Based on a tip-off, police detained a suspect and recovered a replica of the query paper of the examination early Sunday morning, after which the Gujarat Panchayat Service Selection Board determined to “postpone” the examination within the wider curiosity of the candidates, the board mentioned in a press release.

The police had been investigating the matter, it mentioned.

“The junior clerk (administrative/accounting) exam was to be conducted in different districts between 11 am and 12 noon on January 29. As per the information received from the police early Sunday morning, they detained a suspect and upon his interrogation seized a copy of the question paper from his possession,” the board mentioned within the assertion.

The board expressed remorse for the inconvenience precipitated to the candidates and knowledgeable them to not go to the examination centres.

“The examination will be conducted afresh at the earliest, for which the board will issue a new advertisement,” it mentioned.

Gujarat Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi claimed this was the fifteenth authorities aggressive examination which was cancelled within the final 12 years due to query paper leak.

“The government claims to be taking strict action, but the main culprits have not even been arrested. The government is playing with the future of youth of the state,” he alleged.

Doshi claimed the examination, for which the primary commercial was issued in 2016, was cancelled for the third time.

Gujarat Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) president Isudan Gadhvi took to Twitter to focus on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) authorities within the state over the paper leak problem.

Gujarat had been marred by quite a lot of circumstances of aggressive examination query papers leak that led to widespread agitation by the youth within the state.

The BJP authorities had confronted robust opposition from the Congress and the AAP over the problem forward of the state Assembly elections held final month.

During the ballot campaigning within the state, AAP’s nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal had even promised to carry a strict legislation towards examination papers leak with a provision of ten-year jail time period.

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat authorities’s aggressive examination for the recruitment of junior clerks was cancelled hours earlier than it was scheduled on Sunday over its query paper leak and police detained a suspect on this connection, the state panchayat examination board mentioned.

As many as 9.5 lakh candidates had registered for the examination for 1,181 posts which was to be held at 2,995 centres throughout the state.

Based on a tip-off, police detained a suspect and recovered a replica of the query paper of the examination early Sunday morning, after which the Gujarat Panchayat Service Selection Board determined to “postpone” the examination within the wider curiosity of the candidates, the board mentioned in a press release.

The police had been investigating the matter, it mentioned.

“The junior clerk (administrative/accounting) exam was to be conducted in different districts between 11 am and 12 noon on January 29. As per the information received from the police early Sunday morning, they detained a suspect and upon his interrogation seized a copy of the question paper from his possession,” the board mentioned within the assertion.

The board expressed remorse for the inconvenience precipitated to the candidates and knowledgeable them to not go to the examination centres.

“The examination will be conducted afresh at the earliest, for which the board will issue a new advertisement,” it mentioned.

Gujarat Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi claimed this was the fifteenth authorities aggressive examination which was cancelled within the final 12 years due to query paper leak.

“The government claims to be taking strict action, but the main culprits have not even been arrested. The government is playing with the future of youth of the state,” he alleged.

Doshi claimed the examination, for which the primary commercial was issued in 2016, was cancelled for the third time.

Gujarat Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) president Isudan Gadhvi took to Twitter to focus on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) authorities within the state over the paper leak problem.

Gujarat had been marred by quite a lot of circumstances of aggressive examination query papers leak that led to widespread agitation by the youth within the state.

The BJP authorities had confronted robust opposition from the Congress and the AAP over the problem forward of the state Assembly elections held final month.

During the ballot campaigning within the state, AAP’s nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal had even promised to carry a strict legislation towards examination papers leak with a provision of ten-year jail time period.