Bhopal Mar 31 PTI Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress YC activists on Thursday locked the main gates of the building housing states Staff Selection Board SSB earlier known as Vyapam here seeking an impartial probe into alleged leak of Teacher Eligibility Test TET paper last weekPolice said they arrested 20 Youth Congress members and leaders including their state chief Vikrant Bhuria who were later released after furnishing securitiesThe protesting activists alleged they were ill-treated by the police a charge denied by the law enforcement agencyDuring the protest the YC activists shouted slogans against Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan over what they claimed leak of the question paper related to TET held on March 25Assistant Commissioner of Police MP Nagar Nagendra Singh Bais denied that the protesters were ill-treated He said the protesters locked the gates of SSB building and squattedWe requested them to end their protest at the gates but when they did not do so we arrested them Bais said On March 28 a section of aspirants who wrote the Teacher Eligibility Test demanded that online TET be cancelled after a purported screenshot of the question-cum-answersheet went viral on social mediaThe protesters had held placards with the message Cancel MP-TET 2022 They had also petitioned officials seeking actionVyapam Vyavsayik Pareeksha Mandal whose name was recently changed to Madhya Pradesh Karmachari Chayan Aayog Staff Selection Board had got embroiled in a controversy due to alleged rigging of exams for medical college admissions and government jobs spanning several yearsThe scam in Vyapam came to light in 2011 The CBI had taken over the investigation into the mega recruitment and admission scandal after a Supreme Court order in 2015 PTI LAL RSY RSY
Bhopal Mar 28 PTI Some of the candidates who appeared for the Madhya Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test TET and police constable recruitment exam staged a protest in front of the head office of the Staff Selection Board earlier known as Vyapam here on Monday alleging irregularities in the two exams a charge denied by government officialsA section of aspirants who wrote the Teacher Eligibility Test demanded that online TET be cancelled after a purported screenshot of the question-cum-answersheet went viral on social media while the other set of protesting candidates sought a probe into the cops recruitment test alleging malpractice Home Minister and state government spokesman Narottam Mishra claimed the screenshot of the TET paper which has gone viral was forged and called it a conspiracy to malign the image of a senior bureaucrat who is an aide of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh ChouhanHowever if a police complaint is received it will be probed Mishra said The protesters held placards with the message Cancel MP-TET 2022 and demanded a probe into the just held online constable recruitment test They also petitioned officials seeking actionThe gates of the building housing Vyapam Vyavsayik Pareeksha Mandal whose name was recently changed to Madhya Pradesh Karmachari Chayan Aayog Staff Selection Board were closed to ensure the protesters do not storm into the campus eyewitnesses saidVyapam had got embroiled in a controversy due to alleged rigging of exams for medical college admissions and government jobs spanning several years This was for the second time that the state government had renamed the exam conducting bodyA complaint has come to us We are going to look into it So far no wrongdoing has come to the fore an official of the Staff Selection Board associated with conducting recruitment tests said on condition of anonymity I wrote the TET on March 25 online and saw the screenshot of the paper of someone else doing rounds on social media in the evening How come the paper found its way on social media We wrote the test in different examination centres spread across the state by ticking answers on question paper itself No camera or mobile phone was allowed inside examination centres a candidate who appeared in the test told PTIAnother protester said that on March 24 morning the Boards website showed her as qualified in the constable recruitment exam However the same evening it showed her disqualified she claimedThe protesters demanded a probe into alleged malpractice in the constable recruitment test conducted last monthHome Minister Mishra said the screenshot of the TET paper was forged and termed it as a conspiracy aimed at maligning the image of an Officer on Special Duty OSD of the Chief Minister The OSD is a member of the tribal community and an able and upright officer Mishra told reporters hereAn FIR has already been lodged against a Congress leader in this regard he saidThe OSD Laxman Singh Markam on Sunday lodged a police complaint against MP Congress chief spokesman KK Mishra and Vyapam scam whistleblower Dr Anand Rai alleging they have maligned his image on social media in context of the TET rowHowever Congress leader Mishra claimed he has done no wrong A police case has been filed against me alleging atrocity on a tribal which I have not committed KK Mishra said He said he wont get deterred by such police cases I will continue my crusade against corruption the state Congress chief spokesman assertedThe scam in Vyapam later rechristened Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board came to light in 2011 The CBI had taken over investigation into the mega recruitment and admission scandal after a Supreme Court order in 2015 PTI LAL RSY RSY
New Delhi [India], March 16 (ANI): The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence has said that there has been a low selection rate of male NCC 'C' certificate cadets in the Indian armed forces.