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23 June 2010

Stung by job-for-sale scam, railways to curtail RRB chairmen's powers

   NEW DELHI: After the CBI unearthed the multi-crore "job-for-sale" scam, a  red-faced Railways, which till now claimed of a clean recruitment scheme, said  on Tuesday that they were looking into various examination systems to ensure a  foolproof process.

    While Railway Recruitment Boards (RRB) have been mired in controversy and  corruption in the past too, the involvement of high-ranking officials this time  has left Railway Board embarrassed forcing it to take the decision to curtail  the powers of chairmen of RRBs and adopt "checks and balances" in the examinations procedure to prevent leakage of question papers.

    "We are studying all examination systems to ensure checks and balances in the  recruitment process to avoid any leakage of question papers in future," said  Vivek Sahai, chairman of the Railway Board.

   Sources said Railways are considering introduction of changes in the selection  procedure for question papers for exams conducted by RRBs. At present, each RRB prepares its own set of question papers for the same exam conducted on an  all-India basis. Under the new system, question papers will sent to the RRBs and  selected on random basis to make it more foolproof.



    Accepting that the incident was one of "wilful selling of question papers",  Sahai, who blamed RRB Mumbai chairman S M Sharma for the scam, said, "It is sad  that the key person involved in the recruitment process masterminded the leakage  of question papers."

   The Railway Board chief pointed out that chairmen of RRBs had been given too  much responsibility which had led to the multi-crore scam. "The chairman should  not have so much access to everything and therefore we are putting in necessary  checks and balance in the exam system," Sahai said.

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