A day after the web servers of the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) crashed wiping out the computerised data of 3.5 lakh students registered for the April 7 examination, legislators cutting across the party lines on Wednesday demanded that the exams be postponed to a later date.
With the MPSC authorities having set April 4 evening as a new deadline for re-submitting data, students seeking to appear for Sunday’s exam went overdrive, trying to re-register themselves for the examination.
Agitated by the inconvenience caused to students across Maharashtra, legislators cutting across the parties raised the issue in the Maharashtra legislative Council and demanded that the April 7 examination be deferred by at least a fortnight.
What is worrying the students is the fact that the MPSC has not distributed hall tickets to any of the 3.5 lakh students who had registered their names for Sunday’s examination.
After MPSC servers crashed owing to a virus, the Commission released a notification on Tuesday evening, saying: “All candidates are requested to update (refill) their profile details by 1700 hrs on Thursday, April 4, on www.mpsconline.gov.in.