The cancellation of the preliminary examination for Group 1 providers of the Telangana State Public Service Fee (TSPSC) after an alleged query paper leak has been fairly “aggravating” and “mentally draining” for the aspirants.
Carried out on October 16 final 12 months, the examination was cancelled on account of an alleged leak within the assistant engineer’s recruitment examination. On the premise of a report submitted by a particular investigation group, three recruitment exams had been cancelled – Group 1 providers preliminary check, assistant govt engineers examination and divisional accounts officer (works) grade II examination.
This has been a matter of misery for many who cleared the preliminary examination. Many took to social media to precise their disappointment. They mentioned their laborious work had been for nothing and so they felt disillusioned.
“It’s very aggravating and mentally draining,” mentioned Sudheera Katta, who resigned from her job at Wipro to organize for the Group I examination, including that she must begin from scratch.
“Once I cleared Group I prelims, I used to be actually pleased and it gave me a confidence enhance. I felt like I had one thing and if I labored laborious for 5 months, I might be capable of clear the mains and get a job. I used to be working actually laborious until yesterday (Friday) until I acquired to know concerning the examination being cancelled. Nothing got here to thoughts after that, and I’ve to start out from the start. What’s my fault right here? Why am I struggling?” she questioned.
However for some the cancellation is a blessing in disguise. “I really feel it’s a blessing for me as a result of though I ready sufficient, I discovered the questions extraordinarily prolonged. Although I knew the solutions, I couldn’t try on account of lack of time. Now, the prelims really feel like a mock examination and I acquired one other likelihood to write down it with out losing the 12 months,” Lakshmi Tejaswitha Donepudi, a classical dancer, informed .
However one other aspirant, an 2021 engineering graduate making ready for the examination for the previous two years, mentioned this was not the primary time this had occurred within the state.
“I don’t have any skilled expertise. I’m actually disillusioned by the actions of our state authorities. As a consequence of their negligence, we face the results. This isn’t the primary time such a factor has occurred in our state,” the aspirant mentioned, requesting anonymity.
The aspirant claimed {that a} not too long ago carried out SCCL examination notification was additionally cancelled after the outcomes, because the vacancies had been “purchased by some individuals”.
“We fought for nearly 69 years for a separate state, because the early Fifties, as a result of we had been discriminated in opposition to in each area. However after getting separate statehood in 2014, real aspirants and unemployed youth are nonetheless being deceived by the state authorities due to incompetency,” the aspirant added.
The Group I preliminary check might be carried out once more on June 11. Police arrested 9 individuals for his or her alleged involvement within the paper leak. One TSPSC staffer allegedly stole confidential information and offered it exterior.
Political slugfest
The TSPSC paper leak has given ammunition to the opposition in Telangana to go hammer and tongs in opposition to the ruling BRS occasion. Telangana BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar began a day’s starvation strike on the state occasion headquarters on Friday, demanding that the state authorities order a judicial inquiry by a excessive court docket choose.
He additionally demanded that the state info expertise minister KT Rama Rao must be sacked from the cupboard, as his IT division had failed to forestall a query paper leak. He has additionally demanded a whole overhaul of the TSPSC and compensation of Rs 1 lakh every to unemployed youth who had suffered on account of cancellation of the examination. He and Huzurabad MLA Eatala Rajender and different BJP leaders had been later arrested after they tried laying siege to the TSPSC workplace at Nampally. They had been launched within the night.
Former IPS officer and Telangana BSP president Dr RS Praveen Kumar additionally started a fast-unto-death programme on the occasion workplace on Friday. He additionally met governor Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan and requested her to facilitate a CBI probe into the case.
The Congress, too, took to the streets in protest and several other had been arrested after they marched from Gandhi Bhavan to the TSPSC workplace. Occasion chief A Revanth Reddy demanded a probe by a sitting choose.
Replying to those allegations, KTR mentioned the BJP had no ethical proper to boost questions concerning the leak as there had been comparable incidents in BJP-ruled states. “The paper leak will not be an institutional failure, however particular person failure. We’ll appropriate our errors and guarantee they don’t seem to be repeated,” he mentioned, after attending a gathering chaired by chief minister Ok Chandrashekhar Rao with ministers and prime officers.
The BRS working president additional mentioned the accused is not going to be spared and the state authorities will take stringent motion in opposition to these concerned within the scandal.
“We’ll deliver reforms to conduct the TSPSC examinations in a clear and in a foolproof method. 4 examinations had been cancelled. The scholars showing for the examination don’t must pay the charge. Candidates who’ve utilized for the exams additionally don’t must pay. We’ll conduct the exams as early as attainable after bringing reforms. The candidates who utilized earlier are additionally eligible to look for the exams. We’ll make teaching materials out there on-line freed from price. We have now determined to strengthen the examine circles throughout the state and to open studying rooms around the clock. The district collectors involved will monitor all of this. We’ll prolong our cooperation to college students in a full-fledged method,” he mentioned.
(With inputs from Ramana Kumar PV)
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