Why BPSC Aspirants Protesting In Bihar?
Police use lathi-charge to disperse the protestors gathered in front of the Bihar Public Service Commission office demanding to hold the 70th Civil Services prelims exam as before. They are protesting against the normalization of the exam.
After a long student protest in Uttar Pradesh against the Uttar Pradesh Service Commission Board, the students in Bihar are protesting against the commission’s decision to impose normalization in exams. However, the UPPSC has removed the multiple-shift exams and decided to conduct them on a single day in a single shift.
Patna, Bihar: DSP Anu Kumari says, “The protest is illegal as they have no permission. We are demanding the names of the delegation of five people who will keep their demands forward”.
#WATCH | Patna, Bihar: DSP Anu Kumari says, “The protest is illegal as they have no permission. We are demanding the names of the delegation of five people who will keep their demands forward” https://t.co/FK4NALa5cP pic.twitter.com/hQUYoenn14
— ANI (@ANI) December 6, 2024
The BPSC students are demanding to remove normalisation and conduct exam in one day one shit one set exam. They are also demanding the reopening the portal to change centre choices. Students are saying that they were allocated centres 300-500 km from their home. Also no communication with student was set up despite demands against normalisation.
Reportedly, the student leader Dilip Kumar was severly injured amid the Police lathicharge. They were demanding for ‘one candidate one seat’ as the allocation of multiple seats under primary, secodary, and higher secondary to a single candidate leads multiple vacant seats every year.
BPSC student leader Dilip Kumar says, ” We just want to meet the BPSC chairman and keep our demands before him. While we protest, we have been lathi-charged. This is injustice, We demand ‘One candidate, one result’….”
Students are calling the commission’s action as ‘Dictatorship’ as candidates have been demanding the removal of normalisation. The normalisation is considered as disadvantageous for students as different sets of papers are prepared under this process and marks are normalised using a formula which equalises or balances the marks obtained in different question papers.
