The steps taken by the major
recruitment agencies for the Central
Government viz. Union Public Service
Commission(UPSC), Railway Recruitment Board (RRB)
and Staff Selection Commission(SSC) to safeguard the examination
processes are enumerated below :
UPSC has started deploying low powered Jammers at the
examination venues to prevent adoption of unfair means during the
examinations by using mobiles phones, blue-tooth and other communicating
devices.
Since, 2015, Computer Based Test (CBT) has been introduced in
all Railway examinations. The internet domain, on
which online CBTs are conducted, has
the approval of Indian Computer Emergency
Response Team (CERT-In). After written
examination, link of question paper and
corresponding responses made by candidates
with answer key is provided to their registered emails.
Staff Selection Commission(SSC) migrated
from erstwhile Optical Mark Recognition(OMR(-) based
examination to computer based examinations from June, 2016, and has
taken comprehensive measures which, inter-alia,
include audit of examination venues, conduct of mock-tests, deployment
of its representatives as Inspecting Officers at the examination
venues, comprehensive CCTV coverage of the examination
venues, etc
Thorough checking & frisking of candidates with the help of
Hand-Held Metal Detectors, registering of their bio-metric attendance, taking
and matching of their photographs, etc., are also carried out at the
examination centres.
This information was given by Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar Union
Minister of State (I/C) for Labour and Employment in written reply to a
question in Lok Sabha today.
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