Amid boycott call, 80% candidates take PTI exam in Haryana
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Chandigarh, August 23
5 held for cheating
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Hisar: The police arrested five persons on the charge of attempting to cheat in the HSSC exam for the PTI recruitment here on Sunday. They will be produced in court on Monday. tns
Amid a boycott call by sacked physical training instructors (PTIs), more than 80 per cent of candidates appeared in the written test conducted by the Haryana Staff Selection Commission (HSSC) for the fresh recruitment of PTIs.
Of 9,294 candidates registered for the test, 7,485 appeared at centres in Hisar, Kaithal, Karnal, Kurukshetra and Panipat.
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Bharat Bhushan Bharti, HSSC chairman, said the attendance was more than 80 per cent during the Covid pandemic, much higher than the normal times when only 65 per cent of candidates used to turn up.
However, Dharminder Pehalwan, president, PTIs’ Sangharsh Samiti, claimed “almost complete” boycott of the examination by sacked PTIs. “Only 120 of the 1,762 sacked appeared in the examination,” he claimed. — TNS
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