The Professional Examination Board (PEB) of Madhya Pradesh, also known as Vyapam, here on Sunday denied that any irregularity took place in conducting the examination for patwaris. It also gave a clean chit to the IT firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), which is conducting the recruitment process.
It said a fresh examination would be conducted for over 8,000 aspirants who missed the online test held for the post of patwaris on December 9 due to a technical glitch.
While talking to media persons here on Sunday, PEB Director Chandra Mohan Thakur said, "PEB is holding Patwari recruitment examination from December 9 in 16 cities across Madhya Pradesh."
"On December 9, about 8000 out of 26,887 aspirants who were scheduled to appear on that day missed the examination due to a technical glitch in verification of their Aadhaar number," he said, adding that the Aadhaar number is connected with the roll numbers of the candidates to stop irregularities in the tests.
Thakur said that the aspirants who missed the exams will be informed about new dates through the PEB website adding that their roll numbers would be same but the exam centres may be changed. He said that the test would most probably be conducted between December 21 and 27.
Thakur said that 10.20 lakh candidates are appearing for the tests to fill up 9500 posts of patwaris in state. The tests are being conducted with the help of IT firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), he said.