Bihar: Health officers’ recruitment exam cancelled for irregularities

Patna: The Bihar government on Monday cancelled community health officer recruitment examinations after the Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of the state police detected widespread “irregularities and malprac-tices” during the online test at three centres here, an official said.

The Bihar State Health Society, which conducted the test, said that new exam dates would be an-nounced later.

The examination was conducted at 12 online centres in Patna on Sunday.

Police also arrested 37 people, including aspirants, owners and employees of the examination centres and IT managers, in connection with the case, Deputy Inspector General (EOU) Manavjit Singh Dhillon told reporters.

Several electronic and digital devices, laptops, mobile phones, ATM and credit cards, and Aadhaar cards were recovered from the possession of the arrested people, the officer said.

Acting on a tip-off, officials of EOU and Patna police jointly conducted raids at the three examination centres in Patna on Sunday, an official statement said.

The online recruitment exam for community health officers, which started on Sunday, was also sup-posed to be held on Monday.

“Officials found that employees of the examination centres provided unauthorised access to the com-puter system to a solver gang through proxy server and remote viewing applications. Evidence collect-ed from the spot revealed that the accused were solving the questions papers through online Com-puter Based Test (CBT) on a real-time basis,” the statement issued by EOU said.

Officials also found that owners of the examination centres, employees and private IT managers were involved in the irregularities during the exam, it said.