Close to 27 lakh candidates are expected to appear in the competitive examination for the recruitment to the 13,316 posts of lekhpal (revenue record keeper) on Sunday.
As many as one lakh candidates will appear for the exams in each of six cities lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Kanpur and Agra. In nine cities —Azamgarh, Jaunpur, Meerut, Ghazipur, Ballia, Bareilly, Moradabad, Ghaziabad and Aligarh the number of applicants is over 50,000 for each city.
Faced with the unprecedented situation of handling close to 27 lakh candidates in a single day the state’s chief secretary Alok Ranjan and the chairman of Board of Revenue Anil Gupta on Friday conducted video conferencing with all the zonal IGs, DIGs, divisional commissioners and SSPs of the districts for the review of the preparations. The state government has provided the para military force to each district as per their demand.
The Samajwadi party government which has faced flak in last three years over the bungling and irregularities in exams for recruitment to government posts claimed that the government is committed for holding the exams in free, fair and clean manner. The state government has earlier decided to conduct the examination by the UP subordinate service commission. The job was later entrusted to a prominent IT firm following the orders of the Allahabad high court.
The revenue minister Shivpal Yadav said here on Friday that the state government, committed for holding the exams free of any hassle and clean manner. He said 212 examination centers have been set up across the state for holding the examination. He said the supervision and invigilation will be jointly conducted by officials of the IT firm and the district administration. He said the competitive examination for the recruitment of lekhpal was a challenging task and the government is committed for holding the examination in free fair and transparent manner.
The minister said for maintaining law and order and maintaining security during the exam each city has been divided into sectors and zone and magistrates will be posted. For further supervisions of the examination state government had sent one special observer for each district. The officer will be of the special secretary rank. He said strict directives have been issued to the district magistrates for effectively controlling to the use of unfair means by the examinees.