Higher and Technical Education Minister Umashankar Gupta felicitated six teachers (invigilators) for catching proxy candidates during the recruitment exam of the Professional Exam Board. There is provision of `1 lakh and citation for the award. However, the amount is divided in case the number of invigilators is more. Gupta said that minimum `50,000 should be given to every invigilator. Following this, cheques of enhanced amount of `50,000 each were distributed to the rewardees.
Gupta presented cheques of `50,000 each to Sushil Pandey, Rahmat Ali and Deepak Chaurasia who caught fake candidates during Forest Guard Recruitment Exam-2015 at exam centre at Government PG College, Satna.
Similarly, Gupta gave away cheques worth `50,000 each to Anshul Sarawgi and Prashant Pandey who caught proxy candidates appearing at Forest Guard Recruitment Exam-2015 at exam centre at lNCT College and awarded `1 lakh and citation to Sunil Rakshit who caught fake candidate Jail Warder Recruitment Exam-2015 at exam centre at Ram Institute of Science and Technology, Jabalpur.
Gupta called for arrangements to ensure that `1 lakh candidates can attempt online exams on one single day. He said that rooms should be made available in colleges only as per Board's demand to install computers. Gupta said that ITI exams are being held online. Along with it, process is also going on to hold online exams of polytechnics and engineering colleges.
He said that holding online BA and BSC exams is being considered. Gupta said that a screen displaying serial wise photographs of candidates should be installed in exam hall.
Board’s Chairperson Aruna Sharma said that Village Job Assistants will impart computer training from class VII students to persons upto 25 years of age at panchayats' computer rooms. Due to this, rural students would face no difficulty in attempting online exams. Board's Director Bhaskar lakshakar informed about exam system
reforms.