PRINCE KUMAR
Ranchi, Dec 13: A day after the BJP demanded registration of an FIR over the irregularities in the JPSC civil services PT examination. JPSC secretary Himanshu Mohan retorted that the FIR is not needed for the missing OMR answer sheets of the candidates.
“There were about 5 lakh OMR sheets and so much logistics were involved in it and if 50 or 60 OMR sheets go missing. I don’t think it is a matter of concern,” Mohan said.
“There was an internal investigation going on to find out the missing OMR sheets upon which the ineligible candidates were disqualified,” Mohan further said.
On the question of disqualification of 49 candidates, Mohan said that in order to not to delay the result those students whose OMR sheet was missing got the benefit of the doubt and were qualified by providing them with the cut-off marks.
“Out of 57 missing OMR sheets, 8 were unqualified because their marks were quite below the cut-off marks and we came to know about that as they had submitted their duplicate copy of the OMR sheets,” Mohan said.
On the other hand, a JPSC candidate named Gulam Hussain who has qualified JPSC PT examination went on hunger strike till death today in front of the JPSC office in Ranchi.
Stating the reason for the hunger strike he said that for the last 20 years the JPSC has not taken a single exam without controversy and now it’s time to dismantle the ineligible JPSC.
“Though I have qualified the PT examination and have also filled the form for appearing in mains still I will boycott the examination until and unless the government decides to give the examination duty to the UPSC,” Hussain said.
Earlier, State BJP President Deepak Prakash said that the Hemant Soren government should initiate a CBI probe into the whole exams by cancelling them and the JPSC Chairman Amitabh Choudhary must be sacked immediately.
