Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 31 (ANI): A special court here on Saturday sentenced five people to seven years jail term for rigging a Pre-Medical Test (PMT) conducted by the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board in 2009, known by its Hindi acronym Vyapam.
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
Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) has released the answer key for the state Teacher’s Eligibility Test (MPTET) 2020 on its official website at peb.mp.gov.in. Candidates who appeared for the exam can check and download the answer key using their login details such as application number and password. The exam was held on March 5. MP TET […]
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
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], March 9 (ANI): Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Wednesday announced that the local students from the state have been exempted from paying examination fees in exams conducted by state PCC, VYAPAM (Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board) and other state conducted exams.
Bhopal Feb 18 PTI The Central Bureau of Investigation CBI has filed a charge-sheet against 160 more accused including the chairmen of three medical colleges in Madhya Pradesh for allegedly rigging the 2013 Pre-Medical Test PMT in the multi-crore Vyapam examination and recruitment scam This took the number of accused who have been charge-sheeted in the case to 650 so far The charge-sheet was filed on Thursday in the special CBI court of Nitiraj Singh Sisodia hearing Vyapam-related cases against 160 new accused including Pankaj Trivedi former controller of Madhya Pradesh Vyavasayik Pariksha Mandal Vyapam and two officials of state Directorate of Medical Education DME CBIs special prosecutor Satish Dinkar told PTI Those charge-sheeted include Ajay Goenka S N Vijaywargiya and Suresh Singh Bhadoria chairmen of Chirayu Medical College and Hospital Peoples Medical College and Hospital both in Bhopal and Indore-based Index Medical College and Hospital respectively he confirmed The CBI had earlier said that the accused candidates had adopted a unique engine-bogie system or method of cheating in the exam by engaging intelligent students engines as solver candidates for allowing copying of their answers by the beneficiaries bogies who would sit behind them Dinkar said 56 candidates referred to as bogies 46 persons referred to as engines 13 guardians of the medical course aspirants and nine middlemen were also charge-sheeted He said that the charge-sheet was filed against the accused under sections 120 criminal conspiracy 419 cheating by personation 420 cheating 467 forgery of valuable security 468 forgery for the purpose of cheating and other relevant counts of Indian Penal Code IPC Prevention of Corruption Act and MP Examination Recognition Act The court has allowed the CBIs plea to produce the accused in the court in batches in view of the pandemic Dinkar said adding that they will be produced in the court between February 22 and March 12 in adherence to the COVID-appropriate behaviour Copies of the charge-sheet will be handed over to the accused before charges are framed against them he added The scam in Vyapam or Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board broke out in 2013 wherein candidates had bribed officials and rigged exams by deploying imposters to write their answersheets The scam began in 1995 involving politicians senior officials and businessmen The CBI had taken over investigation following the Supreme Court order in 2015 PTI LAL NP NP