New Delhi, July 30 -- The amendment to the anti-paper leak law is a testimony that the government has zero tolerance towards exam paper leaks and its resolve that nobody will be allowed to jeopardise the future of our children, Union minister Jitendra Singh said as the Rajya Sabha took up the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026, on Thursday.
Piloting the Bill, Singh said the government has brought this amendment in right earnest and was open to constructive suggestions from all quarters.
The Lok Sabha passed the bill on Wednesday, and now its various provisions will be discussed and debated in the Upper House.
Singh said the bill testifies that this government does not stand on prestige and is open to healthy inputs. "We are open to constructive suggestions from all quarters, and that's exactly the reason why, in the wake of the recent sequence of events, the PM lost no time to declare that nobody will be allowed to jeopardise the future of our children, and also announced the resolve of zero tolerance to paper leak," Singh said.
Meanwhile, as many as 3.61 lakh candidates have been recommended by the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) for government jobs in the last four years, Singh said.
Vacancies in the Union government have been filled up in mission-mode and several lakh appointment letters have been distributed to recommended/selected candidates in National Rozgar Mela events being held regularly since October 2022, he said. "During the last four years, i.e. 2022-23 to 2025-26, the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has recommended about 3.61 lakh candidates based on the vacancy requisitions submitted by various ministries/departments to SSC," said Singh. mpost
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