We will maintain strict vigil: Controller
Irfan Tramboo
Srinagar, Oct 26: With an OMR based written test of J&K Service Selection Board (JKSSB) set to be held on November 10, not all the examination centres will be under proper surveillance in the absence of CCTV cameras and other necessary gadgetry needed for the conduct of such exams.
Amid this, the candidates—who are set to sit in the examination—are apprehensive that unfair means would be used in the absence of proper monitoring of the examination centres across J&K.
Several candidates approached Excelsior and expressed their fears and asked why the JKSSB can’t hold the examination on the lines of the National Testing Agency (NTA) where there is a proper arrangement of surveillance during the exam to curb the menace of unfair means.
Apart from CCTV cameras, there is also going to be an absence of jammers at the examination centres in J&K that impede the functioning of the electronic gadgets as is being employed by the NTA.
“We have appeared in the NET examination conducted by the NTA; there is no question of copying there. Jammers are installed and even if someone has a mobile phone, there is no possibility of using that. We want to ask why the JKSSB can’t provide the same facility across the examination centres,” the candidates said.
The candidates said that they have seen the examination the centres of JKSSB during earlier exams where there were no CCTV cameras—the fact which was accepted by the JKSSB stating that not all examination centres are equipped with CCTV surveillance.
There are at least 750 examination centres that have been set up across J&K for the examination for the posts of Accounts Assistant (Panchayat) scheduled for the day. The total number of candidates that are set to appear in the examination is more than 1,90,000.
The Board, however, said that they will make sure that the exam is conducted in a transparent way across all the centres and will make sure that the proceeding of the examination is observed keenly.
“We will make sure that mobile phones and other electronic devices are not allowed inside. There will be a proper arrangement regarding security. We will also carry out videography of all the centres,” Musheer Ahmad Mirza JKSSB’s Controller Examinations told Excelsior.
He added that the CCTVs might not able available at all the centres, but the board will have the magistrates and observers keeping an eye on the conduct of exam on November 10.
”We will be examining as we have been doing with transparency, however, what remains as the issues are the number of centres which is higher time,” he said.
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