BPSC chairman terms students’ protest ‘unwarranted’, says normalisation not on, exam on one date
Hindustan TimesPolice resorted to lathi charge on a large number of students opposing the anticipated normalisation process in the Bihar Public Service Commission 70th combined competitive examination, which is scheduled on December 13. While the police dealt sternly with the agitating students, who assembled near the commission’s office, choking the usually busy Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg, BPSC chairman Ravi S Parmar said the protests were “unwarranted and those protesting might have some other goal to achieve than cracking the test”. The protestors want that there should be clarity from the chairman of the commission that there would be no normalisation process and there would one exam one one date to give a level playing field to students. The agitation has also taken political overtones, with the Leader Of Opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav also taking up the cause of students and writing to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for sympathetic consideration of their demands, including extension of exam date due to problem in the BPSC server, which prevented lakhs of students from filling up their forms and examination conduct in one shift sift, the same day either same set and pattern of questions.