CBI arrests Mumbai railway recruitment board chief

The CBI on Wednesday arrested SM Sharma, chairman of Railway Recruitment Board, Mumbai, in Hyderabad in connection to a multi-crore scam unearthed

on June 19. The investigating agency had earlier arrested eight persons , including Vivek Bhardwaj Sharma, son of S M Sharma, A K Jagannatham, the then ADRM in Raipur and his son Srujan, for allegedly leaking examination papers for money. The scam seems to be not limited to Maharashtra with the CBI also arresting G Sethi, senior divisional personnel officer at Raipur.



The railways, which has got into a damage limitation exercise , had on Tuesday decided to curtail the powers of chairmen of Railway Recruitment Boards and adopt "checks and balances" in the examinations procedure to prevent leakage of question papers. "We have given too much of responsibility to the chairman. The chairman should not have so much access to everything and therefore we are putting in necessary checks and balance in the examination system to prevent leakage of question papers in future,\" Railway Board chairman Vivek Sahai had said on Tuesday.



Railways are also considering changing the selection procedure for question papers. Currently, each RRB is preparing its own set of questions. According to the new system under consideration, question papers will be selected on random basis to make it more transparent. Leakages in one centres will have no impact on other centres as the students will be provided multiple set of questions, Mr Sahai had said.



Railways which had vacancies of about two lakh posts had started the recruitment exercise of filling about 40,000 posts in phases.
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