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Fadnavis halts MPSC online shift after aspirant pushback
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said the state has no immediate plan to move Maharashtra Public Service Commission recruitment exams online, after widespread opposition from aspirants. Fadnavis said the earlier decision…
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said the state has no immediate plan to move Maharashtra Public Service Commission recruitment exams online, after widespread opposition from aspirants. Fadnavis said the earlier decision to switch to a computer-based test model has been postponed and that the existing OMR sheet system will continue. He also told the media that MPSC chairperson Vivek Bhimanwar's comments about an online shift had been misconstrued.
The commission had announced in June that it would adopt CBT for Group A, B and C exams from 2027, a move that drew sharp criticism from job aspirants who cited risks of technical glitches, private centre malpractices and poor internet access in rural areas. Fadnavis said any future change would only be made after consultations with students. The MPSC had deferred the CBT transition to July 2027 and paused plans for the Group C preliminary exam-2026 via CBT.
Indian Opinion Analysis
The MPSC transition mirrors a wider debate across India's state recruitment bodies, where the Union Public Service Commission's own move to computer-based prelims from 2025 prompted similar doubts among aspirants about cyber infrastructure, server capacity and accessibility in remote areas. Under the Maharashtra Civil Services Examination rules set by the state's Public Service Commission, group recruitment for over 10,000 posts each year involves lakhs of candidates from districts where steady power and broadband are not guaranteed. The Finance Department under the Maharashtra government has estimated that a full switch to CBT could require Rs 200, 300 crore in public testing centre infrastructure, a figure aspirants argue the state has not allocated.
Source: hindustantimes.com
This brief was synthesised by AI from the source linked above.
