Amid exam fraud, Maharashtra turns to ‘rejected’ TCS
The Hindu
Malpractice in recruitment tests by selected firms leaves govt. red-faced
With two out of five companies empanelled by the Maharashtra government as service providers for the Optical Marks Recognition (OMR)-based examination management system embroiled in controversy while conducting recruitment exams, the government is now forced to turn to the company whose earlier bid was rejected.
After the fiasco of the recruitment exams for Maharashtra Housing Area Development Authority (MHADA) in which officials working with the GA Software Technologies Private Ltd., were arrested for trying to leak question papers, State Housing Minister Jitendra Awhad has announced that the exam will now be conducted by the MHADA and it will take help from Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS).
The tech giant was one of the bidders when the State’s Information and Technology Department floated a request for proposal in August 2020, show the documents accessed by The Hindu through an application under Right to Information (RTI) Act.
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