CBI Lodges FIR In National Eligibility Test Answer-Sheet Scam
The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a case against a senior official of CBSE – Antriksh Johri, Kapil Soorma, the representative of Venus Digital Service and Venus Digital Service (Karol Bagh) along with some other unidentified officials of CBSE for alleged corruption, criminal conspiracy and criminal misconduct. The future of 7.94 lakh aspirants who appeared in NET this year is at risk as the private firm who was given contract to scan the answersheets had not been able to complete the work. The Central Board Of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducts a no. of examinations throughout the year and NET is one amongst them. This year it was conducted on January 22 at total 500 centres across the country and the contract to scan the answersheets of some examination centres was given to Venus Digital Service. The work for 412 centres in 18 cities was given at the rate of Rs 25000 per centre to the company, which CBI says was done without any tender and rates were arbitrary. It w...