Ujjain : Thousands of candidates took the combined class-IV recruitment test conducted by the VYAPAM at as many as 21centers set up in various schools and colleges of the city on Sunday.Candidates with educational qualification of standard VIII or more appeared in the exam. The exam was conducted to select candidates for the posts of peons and chowkidars. While more than 7730 candidates were expected to sit in the examination, reports pouring in from various centers revealed that 10 per cent of the candidates chose to skip the written test and around 6963 candidates appeared for the examination.
The tests conducted by the VYAPAM are now also being perceived as the strict entrance test in view of VYAPAM scam. There was restriction on carrying even water bottle inside the examination hall and three-layer security checks.As the students were first examined through metal detectors, then frisking and again by hand at all centers across the city, one of them said there were more security checks at the exam center than any airport. To rule out any possibility of a paper leak, question papers were handed over to the teachers and officials on examination duty only in the morning. As a result of the heavy inflow and outflow of candidates before and after the examinations, respectively, the roads outside the examination centers were found busy. Since a large number of candidates had come from other parts of the district as well, crowd and traffic near the bus stand and the railway station increased after the examination session ended.
