NEW DELHI: Bihar meeting on Wednesday handed an anti-paper leak invoice by voice vote to strengthen the measures towards irregularities that had been witnessed in essential examinations.
The much-awaited Bihar Public Examinations (PE) (Prevention of Unfair Means) Invoice, 2024, goals to curb malpractices such because the leak of query or reply papers, which have beforehand led to the cancellation of a number of examinations.
The Invoice stipulates extreme penalties for these concerned in such malpractices, together with a jail time period of three to 5 years and a positive of Rs 10 lakh.Additionally, if a service supplier — whether or not a govt entity or a personal company — engages in malpractice, it’s going to face a positive of Rs 1 crore and a four-year termination of its providers.
A portion of the overall price of conducting the examination will even be recovered from the offending service supplier.
Public examinations in Bihar are administered by our bodies such because the Bihar Public Service Fee, Workers Choice Fee and Bihar College Examination Board, collectively referred to as Public Examinations Authorities (PEA). The entities engaged in conducting these exams are known as service suppliers.
The Nitish Kumar-led Bihar authorities handed the invoice on the heels of a large controversy that erupted after the paper leak rip-off linked to the NEET-UG got here to the fore.
The financial offences unit (EOU) of Bihar Police, which is probing the NEET-UG 2024 paper leak, has discovered medical aspirants paid enormous sums starting from Rs 30 lakh to Rs 50 lakh every to “brokers” concerned within the racket, to get entry to query papers forward of the examination on Might 5.
EOU, which took over the probe from Patna Police on Friday, has seized a number of paperwork, together with financial institution cheques and roll code of candidates, from the flats of the accused.
The accused, who had been working an schooling consultancy agency that promised to assist examinees in aggressive exams, had been arrested on Might 5.
The much-awaited Bihar Public Examinations (PE) (Prevention of Unfair Means) Invoice, 2024, goals to curb malpractices such because the leak of query or reply papers, which have beforehand led to the cancellation of a number of examinations.
The Invoice stipulates extreme penalties for these concerned in such malpractices, together with a jail time period of three to 5 years and a positive of Rs 10 lakh.Additionally, if a service supplier — whether or not a govt entity or a personal company — engages in malpractice, it’s going to face a positive of Rs 1 crore and a four-year termination of its providers.
A portion of the overall price of conducting the examination will even be recovered from the offending service supplier.
Public examinations in Bihar are administered by our bodies such because the Bihar Public Service Fee, Workers Choice Fee and Bihar College Examination Board, collectively referred to as Public Examinations Authorities (PEA). The entities engaged in conducting these exams are known as service suppliers.
The Nitish Kumar-led Bihar authorities handed the invoice on the heels of a large controversy that erupted after the paper leak rip-off linked to the NEET-UG got here to the fore.
The financial offences unit (EOU) of Bihar Police, which is probing the NEET-UG 2024 paper leak, has discovered medical aspirants paid enormous sums starting from Rs 30 lakh to Rs 50 lakh every to “brokers” concerned within the racket, to get entry to query papers forward of the examination on Might 5.
EOU, which took over the probe from Patna Police on Friday, has seized a number of paperwork, together with financial institution cheques and roll code of candidates, from the flats of the accused.
The accused, who had been working an schooling consultancy agency that promised to assist examinees in aggressive exams, had been arrested on Might 5.
