The expert group, constituted by the department of personnel and training (DoPT) under the chairmanship of former UPSC member I M G Khan, has made several recommendations for improvement in the current SSC examination system. If the recommendations made by this group are accepted, the SSC Exam may soon go online. Some of the recommendations made by the group are given below.
- Online exam for SSC be introduced without further delay, apart from compulsory online registration (with a delayed start for the northeast region) and web and mobile app-based application system.
- assessment of infrastructure and whether private agencies, universities, engineering colleges etc are to be used for setting up physical exam infrastructure.
- To rule out irregularities, it is recommended that SSC/government exercise control over examination technology environment such as data centres, servers and workstations.
- In the marking system, mandatory negative marking has been suggested, apart from normalization of score. Besides, to ensure transparency, uploading of marks, result, question papers, scanned answer papers and answer keys is recommended.
- SSC should not conduct examination for posts for which academic qualification is less than 10+2.
- CAPFs may be allowed to conduct recruitment of constable (general duty) if approved by MHA. If not, 60% of recruitment can be done by SSC on online exam basis, while 40% vacancies may be filled by CAPF from border and Left-wing extremism-hit districts
- Technology should be used to increase the transparency in recruitment process through inclusion of biometrics at every stage, digital height-weight-chest measurement with web cam display, CCTV recording of events and online validation of data, etc.
Source : THE TIMES OF INDIA (24.12.14)
