Scrapping of Arunachal Pradesh PSC's ADO exam demanded

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ITANAGAR: A group of aspirants for the Agriculture Development Officer (ADO) examination conducted by the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (AAPSC) has demanded that the State Government must cancel the examination and also institute an investigation into all the exams conducted under the APPSC since 2017.

Addressing the media at the press club here on Sunday, one of the aspirants, Sanjay Yangda expressed doubts about malpractice and paper leakage in the recently-conducted ADO examination by the APPSC and said that the examination should be scrapped. Moreover, the line of trust has been breached following the arrest of officials for the APPSC AE-Civil examination paper leakage issue, as they were the same ones who conducted the ADO exam.

He said that more than 10 candidates qualified for the post of ADO were from the JEJU Institute, and the public as well as the commission are well aware that the AE examination paper was leaked from the same institute.

"Therefore, we strongly believe that there was question paper leakage in the recent ADO examination too. Not surprisingly, the same examination was conducted under Deputy Controller of Examination Taket Jerang, who is the prime accused in the paper leakage fiasco," he said, adding that the chairman of the commission was also Nipo Nabam.

He said that, hence, the aspirants are doubtful after the revelation of the officials' involvement in the cash-for-job scams or paper leakage of APPSC examinations.

Likewise, he said that the aspirants demand a thorough investigation of the entire ADO examinations conducted by the APPSC under the chairmanship of Nipo Nabam since 2017.

Yangda also claimed that despite the framing of Recruitment Rules (RR), 2019 for the ADO examination, the APPSC never enacted the rules. However, on September 19, 2021, there were sudden changes in the recruitment test subject.

"According to the recruitment guidelines, the recruitment test had to be conducted on General Knowledge, but it was shifted to a technical paper in a very short period of 53 days before the examination. This sudden shift creates the suspicion among aspirants that illegal process was exercised by the officials to give the opportunity to their preferred candidates," he added.

Yangda also informed that the aspirants have lodged an FIR against the ADO examination held from 2017 to 2021 conducted by APPSC at the Special Investigation Cell (SIC), Itanagar, demanding a thorough investigation.

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