SSC CGL 2017 Exam: Supreme Court asks Centre to take final stand on re-test

SSC CGL 2017 Exam: The Supreme Court has recently asked the Central government to take a final stand of the re-conduction of Staff Selection Commission (SSC) Combined Graduation Level (CGL) Exam which was scrapped in 2017.

SSC CGL 2017 Exam: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Central government to take a final stand of the re-conduction of Staff Selection Commission (SSC) Combined Graduation Level (CGL) Exam which was scrapped in 2017. The top court had cancelled the SSC 2017 exam in October 2018 after question papers were allegedly leaked, which led to mass protests. A petition was filed in the SC after the paper leak incident was reported. The top court observed that it is impossible to identify and catch hold of all the candidates who might have benefited from the SSC CGL 2017 paper leak and therefore favoured cancelling the 2017 SSC examination, whose declaration of results it had stayed in August, and holding it afresh by the National Testing Agency (NTA) or the CBSE "in the interest of students".

The apex court has also said that keeping in mind the wrongdoings it would be better to re-conduct the examination. Not just this, but SC has also proposed to form a committee of former Infosys chairman Nandan Nilkeni, computer expert Vijay Bhatkar and other specialists to avoid such delinquency in other online competitive examinations.

The examination papers of the SSC CGL were allegedly leaked, leading to huge protests from job seekers for several days. Amid the protests, the SSC had recommended a CBI probe into the allegations of paper leak following the demands by the protesting job aspirants.

The SSC is a government body which conducts examinations to recruit staff at multiple levels in various ministries and departments. Several lakh students appear in the SSC examination each year and enter government services in Group C and D Categories of jobs once they qualify.

The SSC Combined Graduate Level exam has a four-tier system, in which tier I and tier II are computer-based, while in tier III and IV, job applicants take up a descriptive paper and a computer proficiency test or skill test.>

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