Rajasthan exam: Girls’ sleeves cut, NCW calls it ‘utterly humiliating’ | Jaipur News
A press statement, issued by the NCW, stated that it was “utterly humiliating to make women go through such harassment” while condemning the shameful incident. NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma also sought an explanation as to why there were no female guards deputed to search female candidates at the exam centre.
Some 3,20,034 candidates took the RAS test. To prevent cheating, ‘dupattas’ were taken away from female candidates, sleeves of their tops cut, shoes, even earrings and hairbands removed.
In Thursday’s edition, TOI had published a picture of a male security guard cutting the sleeves of a top worn by a female candidate outside an examination centre for RAS in Bikaner district.
A copy of the letter has also been sent to chairman, Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC). NCW has to be apprised of the action taken in the matter at the earliest. At the recently held REET and patwari examinations too, female candidates were frisked in the presence of male guards.Sanjana Verma, a resident of Jaipur who took the patwari examination recently, had to remove her ‘dupatta’ during the examination. “We were frisked as if we were criminals. I had to remove my ‘dupatta’ in front of a male guard first and it was taken away. Later, a female security searched us physically everywhere to see if we were hiding any cheating material. Despite having such security checks, people were caught cheating at these examinations,” Sanjana said.
Another student Priya Sharma said that she felt very uncomfortable writing the test without the ‘dupatta’. “I was very disturbed during the examination. Even after all this harassment, we read in newspapers that many people were caught cheating,” Priya said.
