UPPSC CANCELS DAY’S EXAM AFTER PAPER MIXUP
Invigilators at GIC distributed question paper for essay writing instead of Gen Hindi
ALLAHABAD : The Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) on Tuesday cancelled the Provincial Civil Services (Mains)-2017 examination for the day, scheduled to be held in two shifts after invigilators distributed wrong set of question papers at one of the centres in Allahabad, a senior official said. “The date of conducting the cancelled exams would be announced later. Rest of the exams would take place as per pre-announced schedule,” UPPSC secretary Jagdish said.
ALLAHABAD: The Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) on Tuesday cancelled the Provincial Civil Services (Mains)-2017 examination for the day, scheduled to be held in two shifts after invigilators distributed wrong set of question papers at one of the centres in Allahabad, a senior official said.
“The date of conducting the cancelled exams would be announced later. Rest of the exams would take place as per pre-announced schedule,” UPPSC secretary Jagdish said.
Invigilators at the Government Inter College (GIC) distributed the question paper for essay writing instead of General Hindi in the first shift on the second day of PCS (Mains)-2017 exam in the morning. The essay exam was to be held in the second shift.
Candidates claimed that when they pointed out the mistake to the invigilators, some of them tried to force them to answer the essay question paper.
Principal, Government Inter College (GIC), Ravindra Mishra said 500-600 candidates were appearing for the exam at the centre and when they opened the question paper they found it to be of essay writing after which they staged a protest.
UPPSC examination controller Anju Katiyar reached the GIC and tried to pacify the candidates. She offered to get the correct question paper for them but they refused to budge.
The candidates then marched to the residence of the commission’s chairperson and also assembled at UPPSC gates in protest. Policemen used mild force to disperse them. The candidates also staged a road blockade at the crossing near UPPSC headquarters.
They demanded that all PCS (Mains)-2017 examinations scheduled to be held in coming days should be cancelled.
UPPSC officials also met a delegation of protesting candidates in this regard.
The PCS (Mains)-2017 exam started in Lucknow and Allahabad
on Monday. The exam is being held at 17 centres in Allahabad and in Lucknow there are 11 venues.
For the exam, which will continue till July 7, 13,664 aspirants applied out of which 12,281 or 89.88% appeared on the first day in the compulsory subject.
The exam has been marred by controversy since the beginning. The advertisement for the vacancies was published in December 2016.