Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday asked students across the country to find an effective solution to prevent examination paper leaks in future.
Speaking at the grand finale of Smart India Hackathon 2018 being held at the Jaipur Engineering College and Research Centre, Javadekar said thwarting exam paper leaks was a “challenge”.
“Today I am facing the problem of paper leak… How to solve it, that’s a challenge,” the Human Resource Development (HRD) minister said.
“I am throwing this challenge to students… It’s an open innovation challenge and even after this hackathon is over people can give us suggestions (on how to plug the leak),” he said.
Meanwhile, students across the nation are continuing their protests against the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) over the leakage of Class 10 Maths and Class 12 Economics question papers.
On Friday, the Delhi Police zeroed in over 10 WhatsApp groups for circulating photographs of the exam papers in the groups that have at least 50 to 60 members each.
It is said that question papers for the Maths and Economics examinations which were conducted on Monday and Wednesday, respectively, this week were in circulation for days before they came to be acknowledged as “leaks” by the board.
An Special Investigation Team (SIT) was formed on Wednesday after the CBSE registered two cases with the Crime Branch.
The first case was registered on Tuesday evening about Class 12 Economics question paper leak and the second related to the leak of Class 10 Maths paper was filed on Wednesday.