UKSSSC To Hold Exams For Over 5,000 Posts On Time, Tightens Security After Paper Leak Row

UKSSSC assures timely recruitment exams with strict security after paper leak controversy. (Representative Image/Getty)

The Uttarakhand Subordinate Services Selection Commission (UKSSSC), which is currently facing allegations of a paper leak in its graduation-level exam, has said that its upcoming recruitment exams for more than 5,000 government posts will be conducted on time, as reported by news agency PTI.

UKSSSC chairman Ganesh Singh Martolia said on Wednesday that all exams scheduled till June 2026 for different government department posts will go ahead as planned.

“Right now, there is an exam on October 5, then another on October 12, and then the physical efficiency test for foresters on October 28. There is a series of exams like this. By June 2026, recruitment exams for approximately 5,000 to 5,500 posts are scheduled,” he said.

He explained that there are in total around 10,000 to 12,000 government posts, out of which exams for nearly 4,500 to 5,000 posts have already been completed. The final results for these will be declared soon after document verification and physical tests.

There had been doubts about whether the commission’s upcoming recruitment exams would be delayed after reports of three pages of a question paper being leaked from a centre in Haridwar during the graduate-level exam on September 21.

However, Martolia assured that, learning from previous incidents, the commission is strengthening security measures. He said that meetings have been held with district magistrates and senior superintendents of police to ensure stricter monitoring through biometric verification, frisking of candidates, and the use of mobile jammers inside centres.

According to him, every examination centre will be fully sanitised a day before the test and will remain under the watch of security forces until the exam begins.

He also added that candidates must report to the exam centre two hours before the exam starts. At the entrance, they will go through biometric checks and a thorough physical search, which will also involve removing their shoes.

Meanwhile, in the paper leak case, police said that Khalid Malik, the main accused who has been arrested, confessed during interrogation that he had hidden his mobile phone inside the exam centre a day before the test. He allegedly used the phone to click photos of three pages of the question paper and then sent them to his sister from the washroom.