Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is likely to introduce new ways to prevent cheating, fraud, unfair means during the examinations that it conducts by introducing Aadhaar-based fingerprint authentication, facial recognition of candidates, and live Artificial Intelligence-based CCTV surveillance.
This comes after the case of trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar who is facing a UPSC investigation or allegedly faking her identity to flout appearance norms for the Civil Service Exams. UPSC’s plan also comes for the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) conduct of examinations including the NEET-UG exam.
Now, UPSC has invited bids from PSUs to provide technology services during the examinations conducted by it. The services that have been listed in the tender recently floated by the Commission include Aadhaar-based fingerprint authentication (else Digital Fingerprint Capturing) and facial recognition of candidates; QR Code Scanning of e-Admit Cards, and live AI-based CCTV surveillance service.
The tender documents also say that the exam schedule, detailed list of exam venues, and the number of candidates for each venue will be provided by the UPSC to the provider of these technology services two to three weeks before the examination for making on-site preparation.
UPSC will also provide candidate details (name, roll number, photo etc.) seven days before the exam for use in fingerprint authentication and facial recognition. The service provider will have to deploy QR code scanner-integrated hand-held devices along with manpower at every examination centre and the QR code on the admit card will be scanned to auto-fetch the candidate’s details from the database provided by UPSC.
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