CNN Central News & Network–ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal: Why are papers leaked and is it possible to have zero paper leaks? For those who are losing hope given the string of paper leaks we are witnessing, I have an emphatic response that the illegalities can be stopped if we start treating the leaks not as mere malpractices but look at it from the prism of organised crime. This will enable the inculcating of best practices of state governments who have been able to crack down on the mafia that exploits loopholes in recruitment and entrance examination processes. If we take the example of Assam, a series of exams were conducted for Assam Police recruitment leading to employment generation for over 14,000 youth in the police force between 2020 to 2023. More importantly, not a single court judgement adversely impacted the recruitment process.
The big question during this period was what was expected out of police recruitment examinations and what would be the consequences if anomalies were detected. This was a time when the Assam Police was already investigating a paper leak case in the previous recruitment exam and made several arrests, including a serving Superintendent of Police in 2020. In this backdrop, the message from the Chief Minister was unambiguous; the sanctity of the recruitment process cannot be breached and there would be zero tolerance in case of malpractice.