Patna: Tension rose outside a Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) centre in Patna, Bihar on Friday, December 13 after aspirants alleged the possibility of a paper leak and protested for the same. The reports came from the Bapu Exam Centre in Patna wherein aspirants claimed that the exam’s integrity had been jeopardised since the question paper and OMR answersheet had made their way outside.
The aspirants said, as reported by ANI, “Half of the students did not even get the OMR sheet or the question booklet for 15 minutes…. Many got the question booklet one hour late and it was snatched away in 10 minutes… Where the capacity of students is more than 200, why only 175 question papers were brought?… We discovered that the question paper has been leaked… Teachers were threatening us to stay quiet… There is not one BPSC exam which has not been rigged… The seal of the question booklet packet was torn… An aspirants answered sheet was found in the toilet…”
The exam was conducted today in a single shift format from 12 Pm to 2 Pm across the state.
BPSC’s stance
However, BPSC chairman Ravi Manu Bhai S Parmar refuted all the allegations and told Hindustan Times that the rumours are baseless.
He explained that additional time was taken to bring the question papers because in hall there were 288 aspirants while the packet had only 188 questions in the box. He mentioned that each envelope only contained 12 questions because of which additional packets were brought from another room.
Parmar claimed that this created chaos amongst the students and some aspirants even ran away with the question paper. He assured that an FIR will be lodged against them.
He further stated that there has been not a single complaint from any centre across Bihar. Parmar told HT that the exams were in fact conducted smoothly and it was all because of mischief caused by social media.
He further said that even if someone does claim to have a question paper one hour earlier than the exam – it is all baseless.
“Once the exam started, the students at the exam centres were left with only papers in their hands, no electronic device. The high-tech command and control centre at the BPSC has been monitoring the situation closely, and realtime. If somebody does any mischief, it does not mean tampering with the entire process. The exams went off well,” he told Hindustan Times.
