Raghvendra Rao
New Delhi : Two days before the CBI blew the lid off the multi-crore job scam involving the sale of Mumbai’s Railway Recruitment Board’s (RRB) entrance examination question papers at Rs 3.5 lakh each, the Railway Ministry’s had received an alert from its own Vigilance Directorate.The Ministry is now at a loss to explain why it did not initiate action against the accused. “We had got an input from our Vigilance on June 15, two days after the exam. Even as we were examining the allegations, the CBI informed us about their probe. We are providing them with all possible assistance,” Railway Board Chairman Vivek Sahai said on Tuesday. It was on June 18 that the CBI informed the Railways about the scam, naming Mumbai RRB Chairman S M Sharma as an accused.
The Ministry, meanwhile, went into a damage-control mode and indicated that it was mulling a huge curtailment in the powers of the 21 RRB chairmen and also introducing several checks and balances to ensure that leakage of question papers can be plugged. Admitting that “there was excessive dependence on the chairman of an RRB” to conduct an exam, the Railways Ministry said it was now focussing on devising “foolproof systems for the way question papers are set”.
The Ministry, meanwhile, went into a damage-control mode and indicated that it was mulling a huge curtailment in the powers of the 21 RRB chairmen and also introducing several checks and balances to ensure that leakage of question papers can be plugged. Admitting that “there was excessive dependence on the chairman of an RRB” to conduct an exam, the Railways Ministry said it was now focussing on devising “foolproof systems for the way question papers are set”.
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