: 12 leaks since 2019: Rajasthan turning into epicentre of paper leaks? #IndiaNEWS #Education <br>The desert state tops the unemployment index in second position with a 21. 1% unemployment rate

12 leaks since 2019: Rajasthan turning into epicentre of paper leaks? #IndiaNEWS #Education
<br>The desert state tops the unemployment index in second position with a 21. 1% unemployment rate as recorded in January this year by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). With a high unemployment rate, the state has also climbed the crime records in the last few years.
On an average, Rajasthan has witnessed around three paper leaks every year since 2019, leaving around 40 lakh students in the doldrums.
During a probe police officials found that the rate of the leaked papers has been varying anywhere between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 15 lakh, depending on the jobs for which the exams were conducted.
The recently arrested mastermind of the paper leak, Bhupendra Saran, said that he paid Rs 40 lakh to a school teacher to buy the paper which was sold to students for Rs 5 lakh each.
Overall, around twenty six instances of paper leaks have been reported between 2011 and 2022. Fourteen of them have been reported in the last four years alone in Rajasthan.
The state seems to be becoming the paper leak capital of India.
Among the exams cancelled due to paper leaks are the recruitment exam for grade-III librarians which was cancelled in December 2019 over a leaked question paper. It affected nearly 55,000 candidates who had applied for 700 vacant posts.
Next in line, the question paper of the sub-inspector recruitment examination was leaked in September 2021 and the Bikaner police arrested seven persons for allegedly leaking the paper.
In the same month, Internet across Rajasthan was suspended to prevent cheating during the REET-levels I and II examinations. The move sparked a huge controversy.
However, the exam was cancelled after four months following allegations of irregularities in the REET-level II exams and protests by the Opposition. The Congress government was left red-faced when a police investigation revealed that one of the accused was the Jaipur exam coordinator and that the question paper had been leaked from the education department office days before the examination, long before the government suspended the Internet to prevent irregularities. Over 25 lakh candidates had applied for REET-levels I and II examinations for around 31,000 vacant posts.
The state government faced embarrassment next time again when the government installed mobile phone jammers at examination centres and introduced biometric identification to prevent irregularities in the May 2022 constable recruitment examination. However, one exam paper was cancelled after it was leaked and the exam got rescheduled. Around 1. 6 lakh candidates were affected.
In January 2022, the BJP alleged the involvement of the Rajiv Gandhi Study Circle, an organisation with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot as a patron, in the paper leaks.

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