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Karnataka police constable exam on August 2 under CCTV watch
The Karnataka Examinations Authority will conduct the written test for 3,991 civil police constable posts on August 2, 2026. Over 4.54 lakh candidates will appear at 884 centres across the state. The…
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The Karnataka Examinations Authority will conduct the written test for 3,991 civil police constable posts on August 2, 2026. Over 4.54 lakh candidates will appear at 884 centres across the state. The recruitment has 3,395 posts under the Non-Kalyana Karnataka cadre and 596 under the Kalyana Karnataka cadre.
The Indian Opinion
The KEA's use of face recognition, mobile jammers, and CCTV for a single exam shows how deep the distrust of examination systems has become. Each new layer of surveillance, from frisking to webcasting, is a response to past cheating scandals. But security cannot fix a system where lakhs compete for a few thousand jobs. The real test will be whether scanning OMR sheets at six regional centres instead of just Bengaluru actually speeds up results or creates new bottlenecks.
Source: thehindu.com
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