Everything you need to know about Odisha’s proposed law to prevent cheating in recruitment examinations

The authorities plans to walk the instrumentality — known arsenic the Odisha Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024 — successful the ongoing league of the authorities assembly.

Offences nether the purview of the law

According to the projected law, actions specified arsenic leaking question papers, providing solutions to questions by unauthorised persons during the examination, and tempering with reply sheets oregon immoderate documents for shortlisting candidates are offences. Violation of information measures to facilitate unfair means, tempering with machine networks oregon systems, manipulation successful seating arrangements, and instauration of fake websites to cheat oregon for monetary summation are besides offences.

The instrumentality says it is an offence for the work supplier to clasp examinations successful alternate premises without the written support of the nationalist introspection authorities.

Punishment for offences

All offences nether the caller instrumentality volition beryllium cognisable, non-bailable and non-compoundable. Any idiosyncratic resorting to unfair means and offences nether this instrumentality volition beryllium punished with imprisonment for a word not little than 3 years which whitethorn widen to 5 years and with a good of up to 10 lakh rupees.

The work supplier shall besides beryllium liable to beryllium punished with the imposition of a good up to Rs 1 crore portion determination is besides a proviso to retrieve the proportionate outgo of introspection from the work provider. In specified a case, it would beryllium barred from being assigned with immoderate work for the behaviour of immoderate nationalist introspection for 4 years.

If the director, elder absorption oregon the persons successful complaint of the work supplier steadfast recovered of committed immoderate offence nether the law, they volition beryllium liable for imprisonment for a word not little than 3 years which whitethorn widen to 10 years and with a good of Rs 1 crore.

Similarly, if a idiosyncratic oregon radical of persons including the introspection authorization oregon immoderate different instauration commits an organised crime, they volition beryllium punished with imprisonment for a word not little than 5 years, which whitethorn widen up to 10 years and with a good of not little than Rs 1 crore. If an instauration is progressive successful committing an organised crime, its spot shall beryllium subjected to attachment and forfeiture and the proportionate outgo of introspection shall besides beryllium recovered from it.

An serviceman not beneath the fertile of lawman superintendent of constabulary (DSP) oregon adjunct commissioner of constabulary (ACP) tin lone analyse the offences nether this projected law.

Why the instrumentality is needed

In October, hundreds of occupation seekers successful Odisha staged protests demanding the cancellation of online examinations conducted by assorted nationalist introspection authorities for recruitment to posts specified arsenic gross inspectors, Amin, ICDS supervisors and statistical officers citing monolithic discrepancies successful the mode the exams were conducted.

Recently, determination were allegations astir examinations being conducted successful assorted cyber cafes and tiny machine centres successful buying malls without due information arrangements. Last year, the Odisha Staff Selection Commission had to cancel and reschedule the introspection for recruitment to capable a full of 1,225 vacancies of which 1,008 are for the station of inferior technologist (civil) and the remaining 217 are for the adjunct grooming serviceman pursuing question insubstantial leak.