# UPSSSC PET candidates report travel hardships, distant centres 2026-10-30T10:46:45+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets Candidates appearing for the Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission’s Preliminary Eligibility Test (PET) on Friday, 30 October faced a gruelling ordeal of distant centre allotments and overcrowded trains, the Deccan Herald reports. Aspirants reported sleeping on railway station floors at Bareilly after travelling 300 to 500 km from their home districts. Several said they had earlier missed exams such as the Railway Junior Engineer test due to similarly distant centres, and called on the government to set venues nearer candidates’ homes. The Bareilly administration confirmed 62,024 candidates were registered at 23 centres and said elaborate security arrangements had been made. NDTV Profit reported that at the exam centres, candidates were required to remove shoes, jewellery and undergo hair checks as part of strict entry procedures. ## Indian Opinion Analysis NDTV Profit’s report focuses narrowly on the strict entry checks in the exam hall, making no mention of candidate hardship or travel complaints. The Deccan Herald piece leads with aspirants sleeping on railway platforms and centres allocated hundreds of kilometres away, quoting multiple candidates who say the system is unfair and has eroded their trust in the government. The two outlets cover the same UPSSSC PET event with almost no factual overlap: NDTV Profit describes security at the centre, while Deccan Herald reports distance and exhaustion before the exam. The administration’s statement appears only in Deccan Herald’s closing lines. A reader gets the procedural picture from the first source and the human cost from the second. The key open question, raised by Deccan Herald’s candidates, is whether the commission will review centre allotment for future exams. ## Coverage Coverage: 2 sources, 1 government-critical, 1 neutral - ndtvprofit.com (neutral report) Leads with entry security, omits travel complaints - deccanherald.com (government critical) Leads with candidates sleeping on platforms, quotes multiple aspirants This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Tags: Bareilly, Preliminary Eligibility Test Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/upsssc-pet-candidates-report-travel-hardships-distant-centres/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/upsssc-pet-candidates-report-travel-hardships-distant-centres/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/