‘Need your help in plugging leak of entrance exam papers’: Centre tells states
- The Central government has reached out to the states for help in ensuring the integrity of its entrance tests.
Highlights:
- The Home Secretary held a meeting with all state Chief Secretaries and DGPs recently to seek their assistance in overseeing the conduct of upcoming tests.
- During the meeting, the Home Secretary requested the states to help introduce an additional layer of oversight for the exams by appointing one civil and one police observer for each exam centre in their respective states.
- An observer is charged with the responsibility of ensuring that the exam is fair and free of any malpractices.
- In addition to this, states were also asked to appoint one state-level nodal officer to coordinate with the exam conducting agency.
- Currently, there is usually one observer appointed to each test centre by the exam conducting agency.
- However, controversy over the integrity of several centrally conducted entrance tests, including several arrests related to the alleged leak of the NEET-UG paper, has forced the government to review its systems for all entrance tests.
- So in addition to the observer appointed by the exam conducting agency, it has been decided that the parent ministry will also have a representative
Prelims Takeaway
- NTA