New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on March 2, demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into an alleged scam in an examination conducted by the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) for government jobs.
“Thousands of aspirants are demanding a CBI inquiry into the SSC exam scam. This issue is related to their future. The central government should immediately accept the aspirants’ demand and order a CBI inquiry”, the chief minister tweeted.
Hundreds of job aspirants continued their protest against the alleged exam paper leak of the combined graduate level examinations (SSC CGL Tier-II Exam 2018) that was held on February 21.
SSC conducts regular recruitment examinations for selecting candidates for various non-gazetted staff posts of the central government departments including lower division clerks, stenographers, central excise inspectors, income tax inspectors and sub-inspectors in the CBI and other central police organisations.
SSC CGL Tier II exam were held between February 17 and February 22. About 9,372 vacancies were advertised in CGL-2018 and about 2 lakh aspirants appeared for the exam.
Screenshots of the exam questions and their answers were transmitted on various social media platforms. Following this, SSC had cancelled the exams which were held on February 21.
