Overview

• UKSSSC postponed the October 5 test for cooperative inspector and assistant development officer indefinitely after consulting candidates, affecting 45 vacancies and roughly 10,000 applicants.
• The commission will prioritise government-run centres, mandate biometric entry for candidates and staff, frisk candidates before classroom entry, and conduct pre-exam mock drills with round-the-clock police presence.
• ECIL has been engaged to provide stronger jammers, including 5G-capable units to be installed in washrooms, with candidates searched before leaving and after returning from toilet breaks.
• Police say the September 21 graduate-level paper was photographed in a Haridwar centre washroom using a smuggled iPhone, and they arrested a candidate, Khalid Malik, and his sister.
• Week-long protests by aspirants led Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami to promise a CBI probe, as candidate groups allege systemic failures and note that over 40,000 sat the September 21 exam in Dehradun alone.