In a bizarre way to prevent cheating in exams, candidates appearing in army recruitment examination in Bihar were asked to sit in their underwear to write their paper. Around 1150 candidates had appeared for the exam on Sunday when they were ordered to take off their clothes and sit in only underwear in an open ground. The examination was being conducted for the recruitment of clerks in the army.
The director of the army recruitment board defending the outrageous order by saying, “We earlier had a bad experience while conducting exams. This has been done to avoid cheating.” Last year, photographs of the mass cheating in Bihar – parents climbing the wall of a school building trying to pass on chits to their wards in the exam hall — grabbed eyeballs because of the spectacle it was.
