BPSC controversy in Bihar, Why are the students agitating?

Students are angry in Bihar. Youth are protesting on the streets amid the bitter cold. The demand to cancel the 70th Combined Preliminary Examination of Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC), which was held on 13 December 2024, is getting stronger. There have been lathi charges by the police several times to control the crowd of students. Students are also getting the support of many political parties. Let us know what is the whole controversy, why the students are agitating.

Controversy is being seen regarding the 70th Combined Preliminary Examination of Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC), which was held on 13 December 2024. In the examination held at Bapu Auditorium in Patna, the examinees created a ruckus and took to the streets to protest due to delay in distribution of question papers and allegations of paper leak. The students allege that there have been irregularities in the examination, the question papers were substandard, and some questions matched the model question papers of private coaching institutes. They are demanding to cancel the entire exam and conduct it again.

The students are demanding to cancel the entire exam and conduct the exam again. The students are demanding that the normalization process be made transparent and its mathematical model be made public. The students have been demanding strict action against the culprits of the paper leak. The students are demanding action against the officers responsible for the lathicharge on the students.

The BPSC rejected the allegations of the students and said that the exam was transparent and fair. They have appealed to the students to prepare for the main exam. At the same time, the state government has said that if anyone has evidence of irregularities, they should submit it; the government will take appropriate action.

Many students have been agitating even before the preliminary examination. Students are agitating against normalization. The students allege that the BPSC did not use normalization properly. Due to this, the students involved in the less difficult shift got unfair advantage and the students involved in the difficult shift have suffered. Due to normalization, the cut-off marks were affected, due to which many candidates are angry. He claimed that his selection was affected by this process even though his hard work and performance was better.