PRAYAGRAJ, Dec. 16 -- Competitive exam aspirants staged a protest outside the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) headquarters on Monday, demanding transparency in the PCS-2024 (Preliminary) and RO-ARO 2023 (Preliminary) examinations.

The protest began around 11 am with students holding banners and chanting "Vande Mataram" as they staged a sit-in at the Commission's main gate.

Their key demands include the release of the revised final answer key, implementing the migration rule in UPPSC as is done in UPSC, category-wise cut-off marks, individual scores of all candidates-both successful and unsuccessful-and making carbon copies of OMR sheets available on the official website.

To maintain order, nearly 300 personnel from RAF,...