After being caught in a tricky situation, the Congress government in Rajasthan on Saturday sacked the State Board of Secondary Education’s chairman D.P. Jaroli and suspended the Board Secretary over the leak of question paper of the Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teachers (REET) held in September 2021. The Board had conducted the examination for recruitment of teachers to government schools.
The police investigation has confirmed that the question paper was leaked from the Education Department’s building, Shiksha Sankul, in Jaipur two days before the exam. The Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has been demanding a CBI probe into the matter ever since the irregularities in the examination came to light.
The orders for dismissal of Mr. Jaroli and suspension of Board’s secretary A.K. Sengwa were issued after a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot late on Friday night. Mr. Gehlot said the State government would take strict action against every person responsible for dereliction of duty and negligence and no injustice would be done to the candidates.
