Statesman News Service
MALDA, Dec. 3: The Malda district administration today cancelled written examination for the recruitment of women staff in the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) project at Kaliachak block I, following a question paper leak out incident. Officials, however, said that the examinations were held in the other blocks of Malda district without any problem. “At Kaliachak I, the examination was cancelled midway following a question paper leak,” they said. Sources said that nearly 3,000 candidates had been selected for the written examination. “We are looking into the leak out and trying to trace out the guilty,” the Malda SDO, Ms Arunima De, said. “Till 11.30 am, the question papers were with us. It probably leaked out after the beginning of the examination,” she claimed. Officials have not ruled out the possibility of the involvement of the invigilator in the question paper leak. Around 12 noon, it was alleged that the photocopies of the question papers were in the hands of common people outside the examination hall. “People were trying to supply the solved papers to their candidates,” officials said.The SDO, Ms De, was the moderator for this competitive examination and today she visited all the examination centres in the district. The examination, it may be recalled, had been postponed twice in the district ~ first due to the Assembly polls and then the Malda Lok Sabha by-poll.
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