India
CISF deploys 39 personnel at new NTA office
The Hindu··27 Sept
The National Testing Agency's new Minto Road office will have CISF cover for confidential areas, officials said. Thirty-nine CISF personnel will run access control, frisking, X-ray checks and metal detectors. Sensitive work shifted into about 55,000 square feet in the Government of India Press Building. The step follows this year's NEET-UG leak and a CBI chargesheet naming three subject experts.
Prism
What It Means For You
- Exam paper work at the new floors will pass through CISF screening at entry and exit points.
- Confidential zones are demarcated for stricter monitoring than at the earlier Okhla office.
- Officials said no educational institution previously had CISF cover; UPSC already does.
What's Happening
- The Home Ministry approved CISF security for the NTA premises.
- Confidential and sensitive operations moved to the new building over the last month.
- A Nandan Nilekani-led task force on leakproof exams has not yet submitted its report.
What the CBI chargesheet said
- A CBI chargesheet named three subject experts as primary sources of the paper leak.
- It said experts were not frisked entering or leaving the confidential section.
- The CBI also noted there was no dedicated CCTV live-feed monitoring control room at the old office.
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